Mo Farah

Mo Farah

800 m: 1:48.69 (Eton 2003)
1500 m: 3:33.98 (Monaco 2009)
3000 m: 7:34.47 (Birmingham 2009)
5000 m: 12:53.11 (Monaco 2011)
10,000 m: 26:46.57 (Eugene 2011)

Half Marathon: 60:23 (New York 2011) Medal record

Men's athletics
Competitor for Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold	2012 London	10,000 m
Gold	2012 London	5000 m
World Championships
Gold	2011 Daegu	5000 m
Silver	2011 Daegu	10,000 m
European Championships
Gold	2010 Barcelona	10,000 m
Gold	2010 Barcelona	5000 m
Gold	2012 Helsinki	5000 m
Silver	2006 Göteborg	5000 m
European Indoor Championships
Gold	2009 Torino	3000 m
Gold	2011 Paris	3000 m
European Cross Country Championships
Gold	2006 San Giorgio su Legnano	Individual
Silver	2008 Brussels	Individual
Silver	2009 Dublin	Individual
Silver	2009 Dublin	Team
Bronze	2008 Brussels	Team
European Team Championships
Gold	2009 Leiria	5000 m

Mohamed "Mo" Farah, CBE (born 23 March 1983) is a Somali-born British international track and field athlete. He is the current 10,000 metres Olympic champion and 5000 metres Olympic, World and European champion. On the track, he generally competes over 5000 m and 10,000 m, but also runs the 3000 metres and occasionally the 1500 metres. He has expressed a desire to move up to the marathon after the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Farah holds the European track record for 10,000 m, the British road record for 10,000 m, the British indoor record in the 3000 m, the British track record for 5000 m, the British half-marathon record, and the European indoor record for 5000 m. In July 2010, Farah won Britain's first-ever men's European gold medal at 10,000 m. He followed this with a gold in the 5000 m, becoming the 5th male athlete to complete the long-distance double at the championships and the first British man to do so. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, he won silver the 10,000 m and gold in the 5000 m. He became double Olympic champion at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, taking gold in both the 5000 and 10,000 metres.

In addition, Farah competes in cross-country running, where in December 2006 he became European champion in Italy. He also took gold in the 3000 m in both the 2009 and 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, in Turin and Paris respectively.

Farah was originally based in London and ran for Newham and Essex Beagles athletics club, training at St Mary's University College, Twickenham's sports facilities in Strawberry Hill from 2001 to 2011. In 2011 he relocated to Oregon, United States, in order to further his training with coach Alberto Salazar. Farah was also voted 2011 European Athlete of the Year from twelve nominees, with Christophe Lemaitre in second place. He won the same prize in 2012.

Farah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics.