Mo Farah Clinches Second Rio Gold For Team GB

The Briton, looking for his fourth gold medal after winning the 10,000m on Saturday night, stumbled on the final lap but stayed up to qualify.

Farah already won the 10,000-meter race in Rio to go along with his two gold medals from the same events in London four years ago.

UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl, said: “Our athletes have prepared and performed quite exceptionally in Rio, to deliver arguably the greatest achievement in British sporting history”.

Lagat ran a season-best 13:06.78. “I just want to go home now and see my handsome kids and hang my medals around their necks”.

The cut shoulder and grazed elbow from his dramatic fall en route to 10,000 metres gold on Saturday are the least of Mo Farah‘s problems as he attempts to coax his body into one final Olympic triumph this week.

“Doing my victory lap, I literally kept screaming to everyone I know ‘Are you kidding me?'”

And I think it’s a wake-up now to say, “Look, this job isn’t done yet”. “My legs were a bit exhausted after the 10k I don’t now how I recovered”, Farah told reporters. “In the 10k I was on the edge and nothing could get in my way and [then] I was a little bit distracted so now I have to get back into the zone and focus”. The first time I met him I was like, ‘Who’s this guy?’

It was GB’s 65th medal in Rio, matching the nation’s record haul at London 2012, and their 27th gold.

Farah won his second straight 5,000m in 13min 3.30sec to match the feat of Finland’s Lasse Viren who retained the same Olympic titles in 1976.

Radcliffe, meanwhile, said Farah could lay claim to be the greatest distance runner of all time, adding that he was “above” greats such as Haile Gebrselassie and Kenenisa Bekele.

“I’m really proud of how my sister handled herself” said Porter, 28.

Elsewhere South Africa’s Caster Semenya completed a convincing victory in the 800m to win her first Olympic gold in 1:55.28.

Chelimo initially placed second, but was later disqualified – along with Ahmed and Edris – for “not stepping inside the inside line of the track”, according to the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) live website blog.

Dejen Gebremeksel, silver medallist behind Farah in London four years ago, and Gebrhiwet set out on a fast pace, Farah sat at the end of the strung-out field at the Olympic Stadium in ideal conditions.