BRITISH INDOOR RECORDS

Indoor records are a relatively recent addition to the athletics record books, with the IAAF first giving official recognition to world indoor records as late as 1987. This page details all Scottish holders of British indoor records and best performances. See Separate pages for women's records and men's records outdoors.

60 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Cameron Sharp	6.6h	Cosford	11/01/1980	17/02/1988
Allan Wells	6.68	Cosford	13/01/1978	13/03/1982
Women
None

200 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Drew McMaster	22.2h	Cosford	23/01/1976	24/01/1976
Drew McMaster	22.0h	Cosford	24/01/1976	27/01/1978
Peter Little	21.8h	Cosford	27/01/1978	9/01/1981
Women
Linsey Macdonald	24.3h	Cosford	26/01/1980	2/02/1980
Linsey Macdonald	24.2h	Cosford	2/02/1980	28/02/1981

400 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
Women
Rosemary Stirling	56.3y	Cosford	11/02/1967	8/03/1969
Rosemary Stirling	56.0	Cosford	11/01/1969	8/03/1969
Rosemary Stirling	55.5	Belgrade, SRB	8/03/1969	8/03/1969
Rosemary Stirling	54.8	Belgrade, SRB	8/03/1969	1/03/1970

800 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
Women
Mary Campbell	2:13.4y	Cosford	18/12/1965	14/01/1966
Rosemary Stirling	2:06.5	Cosford	31/01/1970	8/12/1973
Rosemary Wright (Stirling)	2:05.90	Gothenburg, SWE	9/03/1974	10/03/1974
Rosemary Wright	2:05.19	Gothenburg, SWE	10/03/1974	11/12/1976
Jemma Reekie	1:57.91	Glasgow	1/02/2020	19/02/2022

1000 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Jake Wightman	2:17.51	Boston MA, USA	25/01/2020	13/02/2021
Women
Laura Muir	2:31.93	Birmingham	18/02/2017	still held

1500 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Graham Williamson	3:40.72	Cosford	30/01/1982	10/02/1982
Graham Williamson	3:38.28	Cosford	10/02/1982	13/02/1988
Josh Kerr	3:32.86	Boston MA, USA	27/02/2022	25/02/2023
Neil Gourley	3:25.48	Birmingham	25/02/2023
Women
Laura Muir	4:02.39	Belgrade, SRB	4/03/2017	16/02/2019
Laura Muir	4:01.84	Birmingham	16/02/2019	8/02/2020
Jemma Reekie	4:00.52	New York NY, USA	8/02/2020	9/02/2021
Laura Muir	3:59.58	Lievin, FRA	9/02/2021

ONE MILE
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Josh Kerr	3:48.87	Boston MA, USA	27/02/2022
Women
Laura Muir	4:18.75	Birmingham	16/02/2019	8/02/2020
Jemma Reekie	4:17.88	New York NY, USA	8/02/2020

2000 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
Women
Yvonne Murray	5:40.86	Birmingham	20/02/1993	note
event does not have official record status

2 MILES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Ian McCafferty	8:36.4	Cosford	4/02/1967	1/02/1969
Ian Stewart	8:32.2	Cosford	1/02/1969	12/01/1973
Ian Stewart	8:28.4	College Park MD, USA	12/01/1973	21/01/1978

3000 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Ian McCafferty	7:56.2	Lyon, FRA	25/02/1967	9/03/1969
Ian Stewart	7:55.4	Belgrade, SRB	9/03/1969	15/03/1970
Women
Mary Stewart	9:07.6	Cosford	20/03/1976	11/02/1981
Elizabeth McColgan	8:34.80	Budapest, HUN	4/03/1989	20/02/2004
Laura Muir	8:26.41	Karlsruhe, GER	4/02/2017

5000 METRES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Paul Bannon	13:57.4	Louisville KY, USA	9/02/1974	8/02/1975
Women
Andrea Everett	16:17.1	West Lafayette IN, USA	25/01/1986	22/02/1992
Elizabeth McColgan	15:03.17	Birmingham	22/02/1992	4/01/2017
Laura Muir	14:49.12	Glasgow	4/01/2017

60 METRES HURDLES
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
Women
None

HIGH JUMP
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Crawford Fairbrother	6'7¼"/2.01	Stanmore	2/04/1960	14/01/1961
Crawford Fairbrother	6'8"/2.03	Stanmore	11/02/1961	11/02/1961
Crawford Fairbrother	6'9"/2.06	Stanmore	11/02/1961	3/04/1965
Geoff Parsons	2.23	Cosford	1/02/1984	9/03/1985
Geoff Parsons	2.24	Cosford	9/03/1985	25/01/1986
Geoff Parsons	2.25	Cosford	25/01/1986	25/01/1986
Geoff Parsons	2.30	Cosford	25/01/1986	28/01/1989
Women
None

POLE VAULT
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
David Stevenson	14'2"/4.32	Stanmore	11/01/1964	7/03/1964
David Stevenson	14'6"/4.42	Stanmore	31/10/1964	31/10/1964
David Stevenson	15'0"/4.57	Stanmore	31/10/1964	4/02/1967
David Stevenson	15'0"/4.57	Wembley	2/04/1965	4/02/1967
Women
None

LONG JUMP
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Sandy Duncan	22'9"/6.93	Wembley	6/04/1935	27/02/1960
Women
Alix Jamieson	19'11¼"/6.08	Wembley	30/03/1964	18/04/1964

TRIPLE JUMP
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
Women
None

SHOT
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
Women
None

HEPTATHLON
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
PENTATHLON
Women
None

5000 METRES WALK
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
None
3000 METRES WALK
Women
None

4 x 200 METRES RELAY
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Don Halliday, GB&NI	1:28.0	Cosford	17/02/1973	23/02/1974
Don Halliday, GB&NI	1:27.8	Cosford	23/02/1974	9/02/1977
William Fraser, GB&NI	1:23.93	Glasgow	6/02/1988	28/01/1989
Women
Linsey Macdonald, GB&NI	1:36.1	Cosford	2/02/1980	9/02/1985

4 x 400 METRES RELAY
Athlete	Performance	Venue	Held from	Held to
Ricky Taylor, GB&NI	3:14.3	Cosford	27/02/1971	19/02/1977
Women
Dawn Kitchen, GB&NI	3:35.11	Glasgow	3/03/1991	9/03/1997
Lee McConnell, GB&NI	3:29.81	Madrid, ESP	6/03/2005	12/03/2006
Lee McConnell, GB&NI	3:28.69	Birmingham	4/03/2007	3/03/2013
Eilidh Child, GB&NI	3:27.56	Gothenburg, SWE	3/03/2013

BRITISH INDOOR RECORDS

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