Mo Farah storms to gold in 10000m at World Championships in Beijing

Mo Farah claimed his fourth world title as he outlasted his rivals on the final lap of the 10,000m at Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium. “It’s not easy running 27 minutes in this heat”.

But the 32-year-old Olympic champion saw off the determined team effort of his three Kenyan challengers before producing a last lap of 54.15 seconds to come away from Geoffrey Kamworor and Paul Tanui in the home straight.

“I knew the guys were going to do that, too many years now they’ve left it slow so they had to do it and it did happen”, Farah told the BBC. So hopefully people look at that and say “I can do it”. Should Farah triumph in the 10,000m in Beijing, he will have strung together an unprecedented six consecutive global track distance titles (with a chance to make it seven in the 5,000m).

“I want to keep doing what I am doing and representing my country and win as many medals as I can”.

“I want to be remembered as someone who did something for their country”.

The women’s heptathlon also gets under way, with British duo Jessica Ennis-Hall and Katarina Johnson-Thompson up against Canada’s reigning world silver medallist Brianne Theisen Eaton in the first four events of a gruelling two-day event: the 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200m.

Ennis-Hill tops the leaderboard with 4,005 points with Johnson-Thompson just 80 points further back in second after both recorded season’s best times – 23.09 seconds and 23.42 respectively – in the 200m. “I’m in great form and I’m ready to go”, he said.

Elsewhere, Richard Kilty and Chijindu Ujah advanced to the semi-finals of the 100m, but compatriot James Dasaolu couldn’t join them.