Mo Farah gets back to winning ways with European Championships 10,000m title

Normal service was resumed by Mo Farah as the world and Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion emerged from months of illness and disappointing form to win the 10,000m title at the European Athletics Championships on Wednesday.

The 31-year-old Briton pulled clear of Ali Kaya, the naturalised Turkish runner formerly known as Stanley Kiprotich Mukche of Kenya, in the final 100m to win the fourth European track title of his career in 28 mins 08.11sec.

“I really wanted to run the Commonwealth Games but couldn’t, so this means a lot to me,” said Farah, who was congratulated on his lap of honour by his good friend, Olympic 100m and 200m champion Usain Bolt.

Farah’s Great Britain team-mate Andy Vernon snatched the silver medal from Kaya, clocking 28:08.66.

Farah was one of three British winners, making four golds in two days following Jo Pavey’s victory in the women’s 10,000m on Tuesday.