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Mohamed Farah
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Mohamed Farah during the 2016 Olympic Games.
Information
Disciplines Semi-long, background
Official site www.mofarah.com
Nationality British
Birth (40 years)
Place of birth Mogadishu, Somalia
Size 1,75 m (5′ 9″) [ first ]
Weight 65 kg (143 lb) [ first ]
Nickname «Fly Mo» ou «Mo Farah»
Coach Gary Lough
Records
• Holder of the world’s world race records (21,330m, 2020) and 2 miles indoors ( 8 min 3 s 40 , 2015)

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• Holder of European records of 10,000 m ( 26 min forty six s 57 , 2011) a you marathon ( 2 h 5 min 11 s , 2018)

• Holder of the United Kingdom records of 5,000 m outdoors ( twelfth min 53 s 11 , 2011) one you 3 000 m indoors ( 7 min 34 s 47 , 2009)

Distinctions
• Trophy of the European athlete of the year in 2011, 2012 and 2016
Track record
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Sir Mohamed Farah , very often nicknamed Mohh (Ne Hussein I’m Kahin Le In Mogadish, in Somalia), is a British athlete of Somali origin, specialist in bonding and half -land races.

He has four Olympic titles in his record by making the double 5,000 meters / 10,000 meters during the 2012 Games in London and 2016 in Rio, six world champion titles (three out of 5,000 m in 2011, 2013 and 2015, and, three out of 10,000 m in 2013, 2015 and 2017), five European champion titles (three out of 5,000 m in 2010, 2012 and 2014, and two out of 10,000 m in 2010 and 2014), and two titles of European indoor champion (out of 3,000 m a 2009 et 2011).

He is the current European record holder of the 10,000 m , as well as the world’s room record for 2 miles and the hour race.

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Childhood [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mo Farah was born in the Somalian Somaliland region, under the name of Hussein Abdi Kahin [ 2 ] . While he was only 4 years old, his father was killed during the civil war and for his security, his mother sent him to live in Djibouti, with a uncle, with his twin brother Hassan [ 2 ] .

While he is only 9 years old, he is the subject of traffic. A woman who visited them often but that he did not know tells him that he would go to join the family in London and that he would now be called Mohammed, assuming the identity of another child. It is illegally that he enters the United Kingdom. The woman destroys the documents concerning the knowledge he had to join and entrusts him to a couple of which he will be the servant, and who deprives him of contact with his family, which remained in Somaliland. Contrary to what he could say before July 2022 and the documentary “The Real Mo Farah” of the BBC where he finally reveals his story, his parents never lived in England [ 2 ] .

The first years, he did not go to school, but around 12 years old, he entered 7 It is At the Feltham Community College. He speaks very little English. “The only language he seemed to speak was that of physical education and sport,” said his sports teacher Alan Watkinson. It is he who will save him, send him to a Somali family and help him finally obtain British nationality under his common name “Mohammed Farah” on July 25, 2000, at the age of 17 [ 2 ] .

Junior career [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Originally based in London and current for the athletics club Newham and Essex Beagles , Farah won her first major title at the European Junior Championships in 2001.

2005–2008 [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

He distinguished himself at the highest international level during the 2006 season by winning the individual race for European cross-country championships in 27 min 56 56 [ 3 ] .

At the Göteborg European Championships on track, Mo Farah ranks second in the 5,000 -meter final, only nine hundredths of seconds from Spanish Jesús España. Sixth of the 2007 Osaka Worlds [ 4 ] , he was ahead of Ukrainian Serhiy Lebid during the 2008 European cross championship taking place in Brussels.

During the 2008 summer Olympic Games in Beijing, he failed to qualify for the 5,000 -meter final [ 5 ] .

2009–2010: British records and European champion [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mo Farah les bras en l'air, un drapeau britannique dans son dos.

The , Mohamed Farah won the 3,000 m gold medal during the European Turin Room Championships, ahead of Bouabdellah Tahri and Jesús España. Finalist ( 7 It is ) Berlin world championships, in , he ranked second in the European cross championship disputed at the end of the season in Dublin, behind the Spaniard Alemayehu Bezabeh.

Mohamed Farah was a British indoor champion in 2003, 2005 and 2007 (out of 3,000 m) and British champion on 5,000 m in 2007.

The In Barcelona, ​​Mo Farah becomes European champion of 10,000 meters in a time of 28 minutes and 24 seconds 99 hundredths [ 6 ] ., In front of his compatriot Chris Thompson [ 7 ] . Four days later, the Briton won in the final of 5,000 meters in 13 min 31 s 18 in front of the owner of the Spanish title Jesús España [ 8 ] , becoming the fifth athlete to achieve the double over long distances at the European Championships and the first British [ 9 ] .

2011: European record and world title [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mo Farah tenant un drapeau britannique qui flotte dans son dos.

The , During the Birmingham Aviva Grand Prix Aviva Meeting, the Briton establishes a new 5,000 m in-room European record, traveling the distance in 13 min 10 s 60. It improves almost half a second Continental brand detained since 2010 by French Bouabdellah Tahri [ ten ] . Two weeks later, he retained his continental title in the room of the 3000 m during the European Championships in the Paris-Bercy room, just ahead of Azéri Hayle Ibrahimov [ 11 ] .

In , he leaves his historic coach Alan Storey and joined coach Alberto Salazar within the Nike Oregon Project (in) . He then trains with the American Galen Rupp [ twelfth ] .

He participates the At the Prefontaine Classic of Eugene and during the 10,000 meters, broke the European record for specialty in 26 min 46 s 57 while winning the race in front of Imane Merga while in the same evening, Mosop Mosop broke the world record 25 and 30,000 meters [ 13 ] .
He became world champion of the 5,000 meters at the World Championships in Daegu and obtained the silver medal on the 10,000 m behind the Ethiopian Ibrahim Jeilan.

He received the title of European athlete of the year 2011 [ 14 ] , before Christophe Lemaitre and David Greene.

2012: European champion and double Olympic champion [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mo Farah at the 2012 European Championships.

In , during the Helsinki European Championships, Mo Farah retains its continental title by winning the 5,000m event in 13 min 29 s 91 , in front of the German Arne Gabius and the Turkish Polat Kemboi Arikan [ 15 ] .

The , Mo Farah has won the greatest success of his career by winning in the final of the 10,000 m London Olympic Games, in 27 min 30 s 42 , after making the difference on his opponents during the last lap. First non-African since Italian Alberto Cova in 1984 to win in this event, he ultimately is ahead of the American Galen Rupp and the Ethiopian Tariku Bekele, and deprives Kenenisa Bekele, fourth of the race, of an Olympic triplet unpublished [ 16 ] .

The , he realizes the double of the underground events by winning on the 5,000 m London Olympic Games. He won the race in 13 minutes 41 seconds 66 in front of the Ethiopian Dejen Gebremeskel and the Kenyan Thomas Longosiwa. The race started slowly (2 minutes 55 seconds in the 1000 meters) and has excited in the last laps. It is in the last 250 meters that Farah took the advantage over her opponents [ 17 ] , [ 18 ] . He thus becomes the 7 It is athlete in the history of the Olympic Games to succeed in doubles 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters [ 5 ] .
To celebrate his victory, he puts his hands over his head so as to form an “m” with his arms. The British press called this gesture “Mobot”. The gesture was then taken over by his friend Usain Bolt during the medal ceremony and after his victory in the 4 x 100 meters. During the medal ceremony, he in turn resumed the Gesture of Celebration of Usain Bolt [ 19 ] . The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, also made the “Mobot” at a press conference in homage to Mohammed Farah [ 20 ] . During the Birmingham meeting the , he won the double mile test in 8 minutes 27 seconds and 24 hundredths [ 21 ] .

The , he was elected European athlete of the year for the second consecutive year [ 22 ] .

2013: European record of 1,500 m and doubled 5,000/10,000 meters at the world championships [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mo Farah wins the world title of 10,000 m In 2013 in Moscow.

The , during the Herculis Meeting of Monaco, he ranked second in the 1,500 meter event, behind the Kenyan Asbel Kiprop, and improves on this occasion of 14/100 It is the second and 3 min 28 s 81 The European record for the discipline held since 1997 by the Spaniard Fermín Cacho, and in fact the record of the United Kingdom held since 1985 by his compatriot Steve Cram [ 23 ] . He became on this occasion the seventh athlete after Said Aouita, Daniel Komen, Ali Saïdi-Sief, Hicham El Guerrouj, Augustine Choge and Bernard Lagat to descend both under the 3 min 30 s barrier out m and under that of 13 minutes out of 5,000 m .

The , at the Moscow World Championships, Mo Farah won the 10,000m test by ahead of the Sprint the Ethiopian Ibrahim Jeilan who had dominated him over this same distance two years earlier in Daegu. He establishes his best time of the year in 27 min 21 s 71 [ 24 ] . Might , he won the 5,000 m race in 13 min 26 s 98 [ 25 ]

2014: First participation in a marathon [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The , Mo Farah takes part in the London marathon for the first time. He finished eighth in 2 hours 8 minutes 21 seconds for this first participation in a marathon [ 26 ] .

The , he won the 10,000 m of the European championships in 28 minutes 8 seconds 11 [ 27 ] . And, on the 17th, made the double with the victory in the 5,000 m in 14 minutes 5 seconds 82 [ 28 ] .

2015: new records and world title [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The , Mo Farah aligns himself for the 2 miles in the Birmingham room where he makes a new world record of 8 min 03 s 40 founting that formerly held by Kenenisa Bekele, who had made the distance in 8 min 04 s 35 , also in Birmingham [ 29 ] .

The , the Briton wins the Lisbon half-marathon in 59 min 32 s , improving by 20 seconds the European record for the discipline held since 2001 by the Spaniard Fabián Roncero [ 30 ] . He is also, after this victory, the first British athlete to go under the hour on half-marathon.

During the 2015 World Championships, in Beijing, Mo Farah won his second consecutive world title over 10,000 m winning in time of 27 min 01 s 14, ahead of the Kenyans Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor and Paul Tanui, after having been jostled twice in the race [ thirty first ] .

2016: podium at the world half-marathon championships and doubled 5,000/10,000 meters at the Olympic Games [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The , Mo Farah finishes third from the world championships of half-marathon in 59 min 59 s [ 32 ] .

On August 14, 2016, Mo Farah was crowned once again Olympic champion 10,000 meters at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, in 27 min 5 s 17 . The , he won the 5,000 meters at the Olympic Games in 13 min 3 s 30 And reiterates his feat in London four years earlier by again achieving a double 5,000/10,000 meters.

2017: World Championships, Diamond League and (first) farewell to the track [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Mo Farah upon arrival of the 10,000 m of the World Championships2017.

The , Mo Farah won the 5,000 meters in 13 min 0 s 70 in Eugene as part of the diamond league [ 33 ] .

The , he won a 3 It is World title consecutive in 10,000 m at the London World Championships, ahead of his audience, where he signed the best world performance of the season, in 26 min 49 s 51 [ 34 ] . It’s here ten It is Gold medal consecutive to the British since the Daegu Worlds in 2011 [ 34 ] .

The , Farah participates in her latest track competition at the Weltklasse in Zurich, Switzerland as part of the Diamond League [ 35 ] . He won the 5,000 meters in 13 min 6 s 05 In front of the American Paul Chelimo and the one who beat him at the world championships a few days before, the Ethiopian Muktar Edris.

The , Farah won the Great North Run for the fourth time in a row first h 0 min 6 s [ 36 ] .

The , he ceased his collaboration with his American coach Alberto Salazar by declaring “I do not leave Alberto Salazar because of doping suspicions” . His new coach is Gary Lough, husband and coach of Paula Radcliffe [ 37 ] .

2018: podium at the London marathon and national record then in Europe [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The , in preparation for the London marathon, Mo Farah wins The Big Half, a half-marathon, disputed in the streets of London, in first h first min 39 s [ 38 ] .

The , Mo Farah obtains a third place at the London marathon while running in 2 h 6 min 21 s And at the same time lowers the British record of the marathon owned so far by Steve Jones since 1985. The , he won the Chicago marathon in 2 h 5 min 11 s and establishes a new European record in marathon [ 39 ] .

2019: Record of victories at Great North Run [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The , Farah wins again on The Big Half and succeeds in a new record of the test in first h first min 15 s [ 40 ] . The , Farah wins the London 10,000 , a 10 kilometers disputed in London, in 28 min 15 s [ 41 ] . The , Farah won the Great North Run for the sixth time in 59 min 6 s [ 42 ] .

In a video posted on his YouTube channel the , he announced his return to track competition with a view to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where he hoped to win a third gold medal in 10,000 m after 2012 and 2016 [ 43 ] .

2020: World Record for the Hour Race [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

On September 4, 2020, Mo Farah broke the world’s world record by traveling 21,330 km in Brussels, 45 m better than the previous brand of Ethiopian Haile Gebreselassie, which has been holding since 2007. It is the first British’s outdoor world record [ 44 ] .

No less than 9 days after his world record, Mohh Wins the antrim half-marathon under a tactical race, completing the distance in 1:00:27 [ 45 ] .

2021: non-qualification for the Tokyo Olympic Games [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

On June 5, 2021, the Briton participated in the European Cup of 10,000 m in Birmingham with the aim of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games on the distance, but it only finished in eighth position in 27 min 50 S 54, with a distance margin of the Morhad AMDOUNI winner and the minima requested for Tokyo (27 min 28 s 00) [ forty six ] . Three weeks later, he played a new 10,000 m in Manchester, a race specially designed for him, but he once again failed to validate the Olympic minima, crossing the line in 27 min 47 s 07 [ 47 ] . Despite this failure, his coach Gary Lough assures that he will continue his track career [ 48 ] .

2022 : The Real Mo Farah [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In July 2022 released “The Real Mo Farah”, a documentary produced by the BBC and Red Bull Studios and devoted to the life of the athlete, more particularly his tumultuous childhood that he had always hid. “I’m not the one you think.” It was his children, with their repeated questions, who pushed him to finally reveal himself to the world. He was never free. “This is the main reason for why I tell. I want to feel normal ”.

Surface Test Time Date Place
Outdoor 800 m 1 min 48 s 69 Eton
1 500 m 3 min 28 s 81 Monaco
Mile 3 min 56 s 49 London
2 000 m 5 min 6 s 34 Melbourne
3 000 m 7 min 32 s 62 (RN) Birmingham
2 miles 8 min 20 s 47 London
5 000 m 12 min 53 s 11 Monaco
10 000 m 26 min 46 s 57 (RE) Eugene
1 hour 21 330 m (RM) Brussels
Indoor track 1 500 m 3 min 39 s 03 Glasgow
Mile 3 min 57 s 92 Boston
3 000 m 7 min 34 s 47 Birmingham
2 miles 8 min 03 s 40 Birmingham
5 000 m 13 min 09 s 16 Birmingham
Route 5 km 13 min 30 s Stranzer
10 km 27 min 44 s London
15 km 43 min 13 s Portsmouth
10 miles 46 min 25 s Portsmouth
Semi-marathon 59 min 07 s South Shields
Marathon 2 h 5 min 11 s (RE) Chicago
  1. ↑ a et b ‘ Mohamed Farah » , on The team (consulted the )
  2. ↑ A B C and D Ashitha Nagesh « Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked to the UK as a child », BBC News , ( read online )
  3. ↑ (in) ‘ Farah storms to European success » , BBC website , ( read online )
  4. ↑ (in) Sarah Holt , ‘ World Championships 2007 Day Nine: As It Happened » , BBC website , ( read online , consulted the )
  5. ↑ a et b (in) Anna Kessel , ‘ Mo Farah takes gold in 5,000m final to become double Olympic champion » , The Guardian , ( read online )
  6. ↑ (in) Farah seals historic gold Britain , Eurosport, July 28, 2010
  7. ↑ (fr) The Mo Farah festivals , Le Figaro, posted on July 27, 2010
  8. ↑ Mo Farah succeeds in the double to Europeans of athletics by winning the 5,000 m, 3 days after the 10,000 m , Tsr.ch, posted on July 31, 2010
  9. ↑ (in) European Athletics Championships 2010: Mo Farah wins 5,000m gold for Britain . Daily Telegraph (2010-07-31). Retrieved on 2010-07-31.
  10. ↑ (in) ‘ European indoor record for Farah » , sportinglife.com (consulted the )
  11. ↑ (in) ‘ The maturing Mo Farah’s focus shifts to the wider world » , on Guardian.co.uk ,
  12. ↑ (in) Owen Gibson , ‘ London 2012: Eat, sleep and run – how Mo Farah trained to be the best » , The Guardian , ( read online )
  13. ↑ (in) ‘ Britain’s Mo Farah sets European 10000m record » , on www.european–thletics.org, the AEA website (consulted the )
  14. ↑ (in) ‘ Great Britain’s Mo Farah voted 2011 European Athlete of the Year » , on European-khletics.org (consulted the )
  15. ↑ (fr) ‘ Euro -2012 – 5000 m Gentlemen: Farah victory » , on Letemps.ch (consulted the )
  16. ↑ (fr) ‘ Mo Farah Star of a historic evening » , on 24heures. (consulted the )
  17. ↑ (in) Richard Williams , ‘ Mo Farah runs into Olympic history with magnificent 5,000m victory » , The Guardian , ( read online , consulted the ) .
  18. ↑ ‘ Briton Mo Farah enters the Pantheon of the half-distance », The world , ( read online )
  19. ↑ (in) Anna Kessel , ‘ London 2012: Mo Farah honoured by Usain Bolt ‘Mobot’ tribute » , The Guardian , ( read online )
  20. ↑ (in) ‘ Boris Johnson does ‘the Mobot’ » , The Daily Telegraph , ( read online )
  21. ↑ ‘ Athletics: Mo Farah Prophet in his country », The world , ( read online )
  22. ↑ (in) ‘ Great Britain’s Mo Farah voted 2012 European Athlete of the Year » , on European-khletics.org (consulted the )
  23. ↑ (in) ‘ Farah breaks European record » , on European-khletics.org (consulted the )
  24. ↑ (fr) ‘ The British Mo Farah wins the world title on 10,000 m » , on lemonde.fr ,
  25. ↑ (in) ‘ 5000-metres – final » , on http://www.iaaf.org/ (consulted the )
  26. ↑ (in) ‘ London Marathon results 2014: Mo Farah finishes four minutes behind winner Wilson Kipsang in eighth place and admits ‘I have gone straight in at the deep end’ » , on independent.co.uk (consulted the )
  27. ↑ (in) ‘ Results of the 10,000 meter men » , on European.athletics.org (consulted the )
  28. ↑ (in) ‘ Results of 5,000 meters men » , on European.athletics.org (consulted the )
  29. ↑ (in) ‘ Mo Farah breaks two-mile world record at Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix »
  30. ↑ ‘ Farah wins at Lisbon Half Marathon with European record of 59:32 » , on iaaf.org ,
  31. ↑ (in) ‘ Report: men’s 10,000m – IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015 » , on iaaf.org ,
  32. ↑ Walesonline.co.uk, « Mo Farah claims bronze at World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff », Western Mail , ( read online , consulted the ) .
  33. ↑ ‘ Farah wins Diamond League 5,000m » , on BBC Sport (consulted the ) .
  34. ↑ a et b Writing « Mo Farah keeps its world title over 10,000m in London », The team , ( read online , consulted the )
  35. ↑ ‘ Athletics: Mo Farah will say goodbye to the track at Weltklasse » , on Rtssport.ch , (consulted the ) .
  36. ↑ ‘ Great North Run: The Pass of Mo Farah – Athlé – Half -marathon » , on Lequipe.fr , The team , (consulted the ) .
  37. ↑ ‘ Mo Farah splits with controversial coach Alberto Salazar and returns to UK », The Guardian , ( read online , consulted the ) .
  38. ↑ ‘ Mo Farah wins inaugural ‘Big Half’ in preparation for London Marathon » , on The Daily Telegraph (consulted the ) .
  39. ↑ ‘ Mo Farah offers the Chicago marathon and the European record – Athlé – Chicago marathon » , on Lequipe.fr , The team , (consulted the ) .
  40. ↑ Jane McGuire, ‘ Sir Mo Farah wins the Vitality Big Half » , on RunnersWorld.com , Runner’s World , (consulted the ) .
  41. ↑ (in) ‘ Mo Farah and Steph Twell retain London 10,000 titles – AW » , on W , (consulted the ) .
  42. ↑ Paid pa, « Kosgei breaks half marathon record at Great North Run as Farah wins sixth title », The Guardian , ( read online , consulted the ) .
  43. ↑ ‘ OJ 2020: Mo Farah announces his return to the track – Athlé – GBR » , on The team (consulted the )
  44. ↑ ‘ Brussels: Mo Farah broke the world record for Gebreselassie – Athlé – LD – Brussels » , on The team (consulted the )
  45. ↑ (in) ‘ Sir Mo Farah wins Antrim Coast Half Marathon » , on runABC (consulted the )
  46. ↑ ‘ Morhad Amdouni won the 10,000 m European Cup and succeeds in the minimum for the Olympic Games » , on The team (consulted the )
  47. ↑ ‘ Mo Farah fails to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games on 10,000 m » , on The team (consulted the )
  48. ↑ ‘ Mo Farah continues his career on track, according to his trainer » , on The team (consulted the )

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