Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie show GB’s middle-distance power at Stockholm Diamond League

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Great Britain’s Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir enjoyed impressive victories in the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm. “I am going to Rome to do the 1500m and I always start on any start line to win, but I know that those 1500m girls are going to make it tough for me so it would be amazing to run away with a medal.” open image in gallery Jemma Reekie stormed to victory over 800m While Reekie won with a front-running performance, Muir was happy to track Ethiopia’s Birke Haylom behind the two pacemakers before striking for home inside the last 200m to win by almost a second from Kenya’s Edina Jebitok. I want to put everything I have into the Olympics.” Former world 1500m champion Jake Wightman could only finish eighth in a fast-paced 800m won by Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati, with British team-mates Ben Pattison fourth and Elliot Giles sixth. Amy Hunt finished third in the women’s 200m won by world champion Shericka Jackson in a season’s best of 22.69s, while home favourite Mondo Duplantis narrowly failed with three attempts at extending his pole vault world record to 6.25m.