STOCKTON'S Richard Kilty and team-mate Laura Muir made it a golden Saturday for Great Britain with victories at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.

Muir completed the first part of her double gold mission by winning the women's 1500metres, clocking a championship record, British record and personal best of four minutes 2.39 seconds at the Kombank Arena to secure her first major crown.

Kilty then ran 6.54secs to defend his men's 60m title after a tense beginning which had seen team-mate Andrew Robertson disqualified for a false start.

Muir - who has set three European records already this year - was the favourite to win and dominated the race, winning by over two seconds, ahead of Sunday's 3,000m final.

The 23-year-old Scot said: "It has been a long time coming. It feels like the last few years, it's slipped past. But now it's a medal and I'm so happy.

"We'll see how it goes in the 3,000m but I think I've broken the ice there. It gives me a lot of confidence to be able to stand on the podium, let alone the top, so I'm really pleased. It'll give me a lot of confidence for (Sunday) and later on in the year.

"I'm going to have to hang on (on Sunday). Hopefully I can come away with a gold, but I've had a pretty hard weekend. I'd love to come away with double gold but we'll see how the legs go. If I can get on the podium, I'll be happy."

Muir, who beat Germany's Konstanze Klosterhalfen and Poland's Sofia Ennaoui into second and third, was almost denied her lap of honour when an official blocked her on the track, but she insisted she was not going to miss out.

"I had to fight for that, didn't I? The lady said we didn't have time but on my first medal I'm not going to lose out on my lap of honour," she said.

Muir, who is studying to be a vet, had suffered disappointment in the past having finished fourth and fifth at the European Indoors and World Championships respectively in 2015.

She was also in tears in 2014 when she failed to make the final of the women's 800m having been tipped for a breakthrough as a 20-year-old, and finished seventh at last year's Olympics.

"I've been training really hard and Rio gave me that determination over the winter to come back faster and stronger," Muir said. "It gave me an extra little push to do the best I can."

Kilty won his heat and semi-final and was in imperious form in the final. He dedicated his triumph to his son Richard and fellow sprinters James Ellington and Nigel Levine, who were injured in a motorbike crash on a training camp in Tenerife in January.

The 27-year-old from Teesside said: "I was feeling a little nervous and I was in the call room and I pulled out a photo of little Richard and I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens here, I'm going to go home on Monday and he's going to be smiling'.

"It made me feel so small and that it's just another competition and it just took my nerves away. I did it for him, my family, James Ellington and Nigel Levine. There were a lot of emotions going on over the last couple of weeks."

He added: "I was on the phone to James (Ellington) on Friday, I room with every championships and he could have been here picking up a medal."

Robertson's false start saw him unable to race and, after having had several false starts himself recently - Kilty was disqualified at the trials in Sheffield last month and in last year's 100m final at the European Championships - the defending champion admitted he was nervous.

He said: "I was (worried it was me) because everyone left the blocks at the same time. I thought to myself, 'Please not again'. It's a shame to see Andy go out like that. I know what it feels like - it's heartbreaking."

Earlier, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke reached Sunday's 800m final, Morgan Lake finished last in the high jump and Laviai Nielsen was fourth in the women's 400m final.