[68], Following his 2012 successes, Farah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics. Olympic champion Mo Farah will have his two gold medals engraved and given to twin daughters born during the Games. It was the first-ever Olympic medal for a . [78] On 16 August 2013, Farah won the 5,000 m event, in the process becoming double world and Olympic champion. Britain finished third in the overall rankings with 65 medals (29 gold, 17 bronze and 19 silver) only the behemoths of America and China fared better. Salazar stated that the split was mutual and he would be happy to advise Farah in the future. [citation needed], From 2011 to 2017, Farah lived with his family in Portland, Oregon, US so that he could train full-time with the Nike Oregon Project. [114], On 10 September 2017, Farah won the Great North Run for a record fourth consecutive time. He won gold at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics in both the 5000-metre and 10,000-metre races. According to initial accounts of his childhood, he and his twin brother, Hassan Farah, were born in . The same year, Mo also won gold for the Men's 5,000m, which he completed in 13:41:66. He holds many world records and has won four Olympic gold medals. The four-time Olympic champion missed the qualifying time in an invitational 10,000 at the British athletics championships in Manchester. He has won the European Athlete of the Year award and the British Athletics Writers Association British Athlete of the Year award more than any other athlete, three times and six times respectively. [67] He dedicated the two golds to his twin daughters. When he was four years old, his father was killed by a stray mortar round,[8] during the Isaaq genocide in the Somaliland War of Independence. News. [65] On 11 August 2012, Farah made it a long-distance double, winning the 5000 metres in a time of 13:41.66. Farah won by a margin of over forty seconds ahead of second placed Abdellatif Meftah. Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer. [59] Farah edged out American Bernard Lagat to win the race. [63][64] His training partner, Galen Rupp of the United States, took second place. Year of Birth 1983. Dinosaur Dash - Mo Farah 2017-04-26 From Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah and bestselling author of Oi Frog!, Kes Gray, comes a fun. If I can't compete with the best I'm not just going there to finish in a final. In a brand newBBCdocumentary, Mo Farah has now revealed that some aspects of his life aren't what they seem. [125] In an interview, he also stated that he is considering competing in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, which, if confirmed, would mark his fourth Olympic games. [76] It also made Farah the seventh man, behind Sad Aouita, Daniel Komen, Ali Sadi-Sief, Hicham El Guerrouj, Augustine Kiprono Choge and Bernard Lagat to break both the 3:30 barrier in the 1500 metres and the 13-minute barrier in the 5000 metres, as well as the only athlete in history to run sub 3:30, sub 13-minute and sub 27-minute for 1500 metres, 5000 metres and 10,000 metres respectively. At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Mo Farah won Gold Medals in both 5000 m and 10000 m. He has been described by Brendan Foster as 'Britain's greatest ever athlete'. After training in Flagstaff, United States, Farah returned to the United Kingdom where, at the 2021 European 10,000m Cup in Birmingham, United Kingdom, he raced his first track 10,000m since the World Championships in 2017. His ten global championship gold medals (four Olympic and six World titles) make him the most successful male track distance runner ever, and he is the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history. [16] Farah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2013 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics. Shortly after, Farah says he was brought to the UK by a woman he did not know, and told to use the name Mohamed Farah, taken from another child. [103] In September 2016, he won the Great North Run for a record third consecutive year. The four-time Olympic gold medalist caught up with GQ about Swedish fish, why racing is easier than training, and what he's sure to eat within 20 minutes of finishing a run. [36] In March 2009 he took gold in the 3000m at the European Indoor Championships in Turin, recording a time of 7 minutes 40.17. READ NOW: Who is Mo Farah's wife and how many children do they have? He finished in eighth place in a time of 27:50.64,[133] this result broke his undefeated streak in the 10,000m from 2011 to 2021. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Dev Griffin He took the 10,000metres gold medal, overtaking Ayad Lamdassem with two laps to go and finishing the race unpressured in a time of 28:24.99. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. In July 2022, the BBC documentary The Real Mo Farah revealed a true account of Farah's childhood. The first was won at the London 2012 Olympic games when he finished the 10,000m in a time of 27:30.42. British athlete who won gold in the 800m and silver in the 400m at the 1964 Olympics (3,6) MARIA BUENO. [39] However, Lebid was never in contention as Farah and Alemayehu Bezabeh were some distance ahead throughout the run. [172] He became the eighth celebrity to be eliminated on 2 December 2020 alongside AJ Pritchard. Sir Mo Farah fails to qualify for Tokyo Olympics 2021 after missing 10,000m race time. Awarded OLY post nominal title from World Olympians Association, This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 03:17. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". This was outside Steve Jones' GB record, but set a new English national record. [61], At the European Championships in June 2012, he won the 5000m. The following year he won the first of five English school titles. Therefore, he is just the second athlete ever, other than Lasse Viren, to win both the 5,000 and 10,000-metre races at successive Olympic Games. Home. BBC Radio 5 Live sports reporter Sonja McLaughlan has reported on every Olympic Games since Atlanta in 1996. . How many Olympic gold medals does Mo Farah have? This was Great Britain's first Olympic gold medal in the 10,000m, and came after two other gold medals for the country in the same athletics session. During the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Mo won another gold medal for the 10,000m, and became the first British athlete to win three Olympic gold medals. [94], On 26 March, Farah received a bronze medal in the 2016 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff, finishing in 59:59, less than one second ahead of Abayneh Ayele. [157] The following year, he participated in ITV's The Cube and won 250,000 for his foundation, becoming the only person to win the top prize on the show. Mo Farah became the first British track and field athlete to win three Olympic gold medals as he retained his 10,000m title with a thrilling victory in Rio. [77] He twice broke the national record in the half-marathon, first on 24 February in New Orleans, then broke his own record on 15 September in the BUPA Great North Run. [159], Olympic memorabilia featuring and signed by Farah has also been auctioned off to raise funds for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). In preparation for his marathon debut, he also extended his training schedule to 120 miles a week. 10. [30], During the 2007 European Indoor Championship Farah fell and amid confusion started running in the wrong direction. 1 in World; Ben True, Galen Rupp & Ryan Hill Lead A Fine Crop of Americans", "2015 LRC Year-End Rankings, Men's 10,000: Surprise, Surprise Mo Farah And Galen Rupp Are The World And US #1s", "Jessica Ennis-Hill and Mo Farah are BAWA athletes of the year", "Mo Farah voted BASC athlete of the year", "Farah and Ennis-Hill among winners in 2016 AW Readers' Choice Awards", "British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards honoured Sir Mo", "Mo Farah & Kadeena Cox win British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards awards", "Mo Farah named Celebrity Dad of the Year", "Winners honoured at British Muslim Awards", "Wildlife presenter David Attenborough is named the UK's most trustworthy figure", "The 50 greatest Britons revealed: Wills and Kate are in but where are Bobby Moore and Thomas Hardy? [citation needed] Farah had in fact been more strongly favoured to take the 10,000m title, but was narrowly beaten in a last lap sprint by Ethiopian Ibrahim Jeilan. [100], On 13 August, Farah won a gold medal in the 10,000 metres at the Rio Olympics, making it the first time a Briton had won three athletic gold Olympic medals. Olympic Results. How old is Mo Farah now? He has amassed this large net worth from both prize money and endorsement deals that he has earnt from his elite running career. [120][121] On 9 September 2018 Farah won the Great North Run for a record-extending fifth consecutive time. That season, he earned 1 gold medal in 100 m breaststroke and 1 silver medal in 4100 m medley events. Ava Max Uruguay: 100%. Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah[7] CBE OLY (born Hussein Abdi Kahin;[8] 23 March 1983) is a British long-distance runner. In November 2020, it was announced that Farah would take part in the twentieth series of I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here. Due to his service to athletics, Mo Farah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2013, and then further honoured with a knighthood in 2017. The two-time Olympic champion missed out on the opportunity to defend his 10,000m title after he went over the qualifying time in an invitational 10,000m at the British Athletics Championships in Manchester. He obtained British citizenship in July 2000 under the name Mohamed Farah. Farah stated he would put his marathon career on hold while he returned to track oriented training. [90], On 21 February 2015, Farah broke the indoor two-mile world record at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. The following month, Farah won the London Diamond League Anniversary Games' 3000 metres event in a time of seven minutes and 36.85 seconds. [168], In 20122013, Farah intimated that he had been stopped a number of times by U.S. Customs officials under suspicion of being a terrorist, which he attributed to confusion between his full name "Mohamed" and a computerised check-in process. He has also won gold medals at the World Championships in the 5,000m in 2011, 2013 and 2015 and gold in the 10,000m, in 2013, 2015 and 2017. [178], In October 2019, Mo Farah's former coach Alberto Salazar and Nike Oregon Project doctor Jeffrey Stuart Brown,[179][180] both received four year bans from athletics for the trafficking of testosterone, the prohibited use of L-carnitine and tampering with doping controls. As of 2022, Sir Mo Farahs net worth is estimated to be around $5-6 million. so I imagine they won . Across his career, Sir Mo has never settled for anything less than gold. In 2012, Farah ran the 5,000 meters in 12:37.35, which is the second-fastest time in history. Dozens upon dozens of the world's top footballers were born . She could have easily ditched her Zimbabwean citizenship to compete at the Olympics and other big international platforms for Britain or the United States to be paid handsomely for that. [56][57] He and training partner Galen Rupp had originally planned on running a 10,000m race in New Zealand. Holly Willoughby's This Morning outfit today: How to get her green tweed dress from, Pink preparing daughter Willow 'for the real world' after painful relationship with, Married at First Sight Australia couple Martha Kalifatidis and Michael Brunelli welcome. Biography. Farah has four Olympic gold medals. In Rio de Janeiro 2016, he achieved the double-double by winning the 5,000m and 10,000m races, just as he had done in London 2012. The victory was his fourth global title. However, he appeared tired in the latter stages and finished third behind British runners Ricky Stevenson and Steve Vernon. This was Farah's first major title and also the first European gold medal in the event for Great Britain. "[127], He has also confirmed that he may run in the 10,000 metres at the World Championships in Doha in late 2019, although this would depend on the result of the 2019 Big Half Marathon. Mo originally wanted to play football professionally, but it was his success on the track that he thankfully ended up following. At its inaugural demonstration, she indicated that the part of the move intended to represent the "M" in "Mo" was inspired by the dance to "YMCA", a popular song by the Village People. He won both the 10,000 m and 5000 m events. Tonight shows it's not good enough. In January 2009, Farah set a new British indoor record in the 3000metres, breaking John Mayock's record with a time of 7 minutes 40.99 seconds in Glasgow. [49], In December 2010, Farah was named track-and-field athlete of the year by the British Olympic Association. One week ago Farah beat Kenenisa Bekele, the Ethiopian 5,000m and 10,000m World and Olympic record holder, to win the Olympic 10,000m title. [86], Farah was due to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Jeilan eventually crossed the line in 27min 13.81sec, just over a quarter of a second clear of the . Click here for more. Mo Farah was born in Somalia but competed and won medals for Britain. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. However, he was knocked out before the 5000 m final at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He adopted the move following a television appearance in May 2012 opposite sports presenter Clare Balding, on the panel game show A League of Their Own. What experience do you need to become a teacher? The night he won his first gold medal, Mo said it was the "best moment of his life". The first was won at the London 2012 Olympic games when he finished the 10,000m in a time of 27:30.42.