SCOTLAND'S Laura Muir declared it was job done after she kept her hopes of double European glory on track.
The 23-year-old reached the final of the 3,000 metres and 1500m on Friday at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
She clocked eight minutes and 55.56 seconds - almost 30 seconds slower than her own European record - to finish fifth in her heat of the 3,000m before winning the 1500m qualifier in 4mins 10.28secs.
Muir will race in the 1500m on Saturday ahead of Sunday's 3,000m final.
She said after her 1500m run: "I wanted to conserve as much as I could ahead of the finals tomorrow and on Sunday. Home athletes always seem to pull it out the bag, so I had to keep an eye out for the other girl (Serbia's Amela Terzic), but I got the job done.
"You always want to win a race, so you just have to be sensible and just do what is necessary. The job is done for tomorrow, so I'll just rest up now."
Muir has set European indoor records in the 1,000m and 3,000m this year, but stated before these championships she wanted medals rather than records after previously missing out on the podium.
She finished seventh at last year's Rio Olympics and fourth and fifth at the European Indoor and World Championships respectively in 2015.
British team-mates Steph Twell and Eilish McColgan will join her in Sunday's 3,000m final after finishing second in their heats, while Sarah McDonald qualified for the 1500m final.
McColgan said: "I definitely think it's one of the stronger fields here: you've got a European record holder (Muir) and a 30.26 Olympian over 10k (Turkey's Yasemin Can), so it's pretty impressive and it'll be good to be a part of."
Andrew Pozzi will race in the 60m hurdles final on Friday evening after qualifying fastest in 7.52s.
Laviai Nielsen cruised into Saturday's 400m final, having finished second in her heat, but Eilidh Doyle failed to progress past the semi finals.
Dan Bramble finished 12th in long jump qualifying after posting 7.64m, falling short of the 7.90m qualifying target and missing out on the final.
Rachel Wallader was 10th in shot put qualifying after throwing 17.35m which meant she also failed to advance.
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