Mo Farah

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Mo Farah
Mo Farah at the 2013 World Championships

Full name Sir Mohamed Farah, CBE
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
birthday 23rd March 1983 (age 37)
place of birth MogadishuSomalia
size 175 cm
Weight 58 kg
Career
discipline Long distance running
Best performance 12: 53.11 min (5000 m)
26: 46.57 min (10,000 m)
2:05:11 h (marathon)
society Newham and Essex Beagles
Oregon Project
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 4 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 6 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
European championships 5 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor European Championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Cross-country championships 1 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold London 2012 5000 m
gold London 2012 10,000 m
gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 5000 m
gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 10,000 m
IAAF logo World championships
gold Daegu 2011 5000 m
silver Daegu 2011 10,000 m
gold Moscow 2013 5000 m
gold Moscow 2013 10,000 m
gold Beijing 2015 5000 m
gold Beijing 2015 10,000 m
gold London 2017 10,000 m
silver London 2017 5000 m
EAA logo European championships
silver Gothenburg 2006 5000 m
gold Barcelona 2010 5000 m
gold Barcelona 2010 10,000 m
gold Helsinki 2012 5000 m
gold Zurich 2014 5000 m
gold Zurich 2014 10,000 m
EAA logo European Indoor Championships
gold Turin 2009 3000 m
gold Paris 2011 3000 m
EAA logo European Cross Country Championships
gold San Giorgio su Legnano 2006 singles
silver Brussels 2008 singles
bronze Brussels 2008 team
silver Dublin 2009 singles
silver Dublin 2009 team
last change: April 4, 2020

Sir Mohamed "Mo" Farah , CBE (born March 23, 1983 in Mogadishu , Somalia ) is a British athlete . The long-distance runner was 2012 double Olympic champion in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters , in 2016 he repeated this success in Rio de Janeiro . In addition, he has so far won six world and five European championships outdoors and two European championships indoors. This makes him one of the most successful athletes.

Athletic career

Mo Farah attended Feltham Community College, where his talent was recognized by his PE teacher, Alan Watkinson. Farah excelled in soccer and javelin throwing , but it soon became apparent that his real talent was running. For five years in a row he was the English schoolmaster in cross-country skiing , and in 2001 he was European junior runner-up in this discipline.

The long-distance runner had his breakthrough in the 2006 season when he ran the 5000 meters in 13: 09.40 minutes and thus finished second behind David Moorcroft in the British all-time best list . A month later he won silver over this distance at the European Championships in Gothenburg , and at the end of the season he was European champion at the European Cross Country Championships in San Giorgio su Legnano .

In 2007 he was sixth over 5000 meters at the World Championships in Osaka . At the World Indoor Championships in Valencia in 2008 he was sixth in the 3000 meter run , but at the Olympic Games in Beijing he was eliminated in the 5000 meter run.

Mo Farah at the 2008 European Cross Country Championships

In winter he was in top form. In December 2008 he won silver at the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels , in February 2009 he set a British indoor record over 3000 meters, which Steve Cram described as "the best performance by a British male long-distance runner in a generation", and in March he was European indoor champion over the same distance.

At the World Championships in Berlin , he was seventh over 5000 meters. Two months later he won the Great South Run over ten miles in 46:25 minutes, making him the third fastest Brit of all time over this distance. At the end of the season, another silver medal followed at the European Cross Country Championships in Dublin . At the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , he was the favorite over 10,000 meters . Four days later, he was also able to win the 5000 meter run .

In 2011 he triumphed at the New York City Half Marathon and at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene (USA) he improved the European record over 10,000 meters by more than five seconds to 26: 46.57 minutes. At the World Championships in Daegu he won the silver medal over 10,000 meters and the gold medal over 5000 meters. In 2012 he finished fourth over 3000 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul and defended his title over 5000 meters at the European Championships in Helsinki . At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , he won gold medals over 5000 and 10,000 meters. When he crossed the finish line, the internet phenomenon Mo Farah Running Away From Things started .

On July 19, 2013 Farah improved the 16-year-old European record of the Spaniard Fermín Cacho to 3: 28.81 minutes at the Diamond League Meeting in Monaco over 1500 meters as second behind Asbel Kiprop . A week later he set a new personal best over the 3000 meter distance in London with 7: 36.85 min .

On April 13, 2014 Farah made his marathon debut at the domestic London Marathon , finishing eighth in a time of 2:08:21. At the European Championships in Zurich in 2014 , he again won gold in the 5000 and 10,000 meters. On September 7, 2014, he won the Great North Run with a British half marathon record of 60:01 minutes, which he undercut again the following year. In 2015, he won the 5000 and 10,000 meter titles at the World Championships in Beijing, as before at the 2012 Olympics, the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and the 2014 European Championships .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he won the gold medal over 10,000 meters. With the subsequent victory over 5000 meters, he defended his "long-distance double", which previously only the Finn Lasse Virén in 1972 and 1976 had managed.

In 2017 Farah was raised to the nobility as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir"). At the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London, he managed to win again over 10,000 meters on August 5th with the new world best time of 26: 49.51 minutes. In September he won the Great North Run for the fourth time in a row. After the 2017 World Championships, he left the Nike Oregon Project , of which he has been a member since 2011.

At the London Marathon in April 2018, he managed to undercut the targeted British record in 2:06:21 hours. Six months later he won the Chicago Marathon with a new European record of 2:05:11 h.

Farah lives in Twickenham and was trained by Alan Storey for years. He starts for the Newham & Essex Beagles .

USADA survey

On Monday, 24 February 2020, cited BBC telecast Panorama of a report of a survey Farah by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) that it had been asked three times whether he 2014 before his debut with the London- Marathon the active ingredient L- carnitine was administered, which Farah denied. The questioning is part of the investigation that ultimately led to the suspension of Farah's former trainer Alberto Salazar and the dissolution of the Nike Oregon Project running group . However, a few minutes after the questioning, Farah returned and suddenly confirmed the use of L- carnitine before his marathon debut. The active ingredient L-carnitine is regarded as performance-enhancing, but not as doping up to the administration of 50 milliliters within six hours.

Farah had already admitted a lie on Saturday, February 22nd, after claiming at a press conference during the 2016 Summer Olympics that he did not know Jama Aden, who was suspected of doping, and dismissed a photo with him by saying that he was often with fans pose for selfies. Now he admitted that he had known Aden for years because they were both from Somalia. The USADA and the Spanish police are investigating Aden after doping agents were found in a 2016 raid on a training camp he organized .

family

Mohamed Farah was born on March 23, 1983 in Mogadishu , the capital of Somalia . When he was eight years old, his parents decided to send him and two older brothers to England, where the father was already living. As a result, he was separated from his twin brother Hassan, who still lives in Somalia today. The three youngsters reached London in 1993 via Djibouti .

In August 2012, Mo Farah became the father of twin girls. His wife Tania, whom he married in 2010, brought another daughter into the relationship.

Trivia

Usain Bolt (r.) And Farah with each other's pose
The mobot

On July 14, 2012, Farah became the first candidate to win £ 250,000  on the game show The Cube . The money goes to the Mo Farah Foundation , which he founded .

Similar to Usain Bolt , Farah has developed his own pose, the so-called Mobot , in which the fingertips of both hands are placed on the head from the side to form an imaginary M. To promote his foundation, a dance was developed from it.

Personal bests

Web links

Commons : Mo Farah  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farah storms to European success , BBC News , December 10, 2006
  2. Funny guy Farah is now seriously fast , The Guardian , Feb. 24, 2009
  3. Farah scores tremendous victory while Monteiro destroys opposition in Portsmouth ( Memento of October 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , IAAF, October 25, 2009
  4. Farah leads British 1-2 in the 10,000m; teenager Emelyanov takes 20Km Walk title in Barcelona - European champs, day 1 ( Memento from July 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , IAAF, July 27, 2010
  5. ^ IAAF: Farah triumphs in Half Marathon debut in New York ( memento of March 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). March 20, 2011
  6. Nick Metcalfe: Farah finishes fourth after failed appeal on day of drama in Istanbul. Associated Newspapers, March 11, 2012, accessed August 5, 2012 .
  7. ^ Neil Wilson: Mighty Mo makes history by retaining European 5,000m title with ease in Helsinki. Associated Newspapers, July 27, 2012, accessed August 5, 2012 .
  8. Tom Fordyce: Mo Farah wins Olympic 10,000m gold for Great Britain. BBC, August 4, 2012, accessed August 5, 2012 .
  9. ^ Mo Farah Running Away From Things. Accessed April 30, 2018 .
  10. Mo Farah breaks the 16 year old record , Südwest Presse online, July 20, 2013, accessed July 21, 2013.
  11. Farah ends season with victory , HDsports.at, September 7, 2014, accessed on September 7, 2014.
  12. Rio Olympics 2016: Mo Farah makes history by winning 10,000m gold. Retrieved August 14, 2016 .
  13. ^ Mo Farah again double Olympic champion. sueddeutsche.de, August 21, 2016, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  14. ^ The London Gazette : No. 61803 (Supplement), p. N2
  15. Mo Farah wins home game over 10,000 meters. faz.de, August 4, 2017, accessed on August 4, 2017 .
  16. Let's Run: 2017 Great North Run Results. In: http://www.letsrun.com/news/2017/09/2017-great-north-run-results/ . September 10, 2017, accessed August 19, 2018 .
  17. Dailyrecord.co.uk: Olympic hero Mo Farah applies to be tax exile in bid to save millions. January 12, 2014, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  18. Eliud Kipchoge defies the heat, British record for Mo Farah. Leichtathletik.de, April 22, 2018, accessed April 23, 2018 .
  19. ^ Thomas Bauer: Results Chicago Marathon 2018. Accessed October 7, 2018 .
  20. erry McCarthy: RW interviews: Mo Farah. Runner's World, August 3, 2012, accessed August 5, 2012 .
  21. ^ Tom Fordyce: Newham & Essex Beagles Farah is European Athlete of the Year. (No longer available online.) BBC, Aug 4, 2012, archived from the original on Aug 19, 2014 ; Retrieved August 5, 2012 .
  22. a b c Farah lies in the Salazar survey , on: sport1.de, from February 26, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020
  23. a b Michael Reinsch: Missing memories and a lie , Mo Farahs Mittelchen, on: faz.net, updated on February 25, 2020 - 5:41 pm, accessed February 28, 2020
  24. a b Andy Brown: BBC Panorama: Farah changed his L-Carnitine story , on: sportsintegrityinitiative.com, February 25, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020
  25. Mark Daly (BBC Panorama): Panorama: Fresh questions over Mo Farah's relationship with Alberto Salazar , Athletics, on: bbc.com, February 24, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020
  26. Ben Bloom: Mo Farah admits lying about links with arrested coach Jama Aden , on: telegraph.co.uk, February 22, 2020, accessed February 28, 2020
  27. Revealed: We find the twin brother Mo Farah was forced to abandon as a child in war-torn Somalia and he tells the harrowing story of how they were separated aged eight by their parents' agonizing decision , dailymail.co.uk vom 18. August 2012
  28. Olympic hero Mo Farah father of twin girls , bbc.co.uk, August 25, 2012, accessed August 9, 2013
  29. Farah on fire as he became the first Cube winner. British Athletics League, accessed August 5, 2012 .
  30. Do The Mobot with Mo Farah for the Mo Farah Foundation , youtube.com