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Mo Farah on Friday won his fifth world championship gold medal in the 10,000 meters at the World Athletics championship in London.

Victory in the world championship 10,000 metres brought him an incredible 10th successive global gold medal.

Farah, in a fascinating race from the start, pushed all the way to finish in 26 minutes 49seconds — the fastest of all his golden runs.

Cheptegei of Uganda was second while Kenyan Tanui came third.

The world and Olympic champions had won gold in the 10,000 meters in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and now 2017.

Farah described the race as the best performance of his career.

He said: “Yeah, it was my greatest performance ever. And one of the toughest races of my life. The guys gave it to me – it was about, ‘How do we beat Mo?’

“You had the Kenyans, you had the Ethiopians, you had the Ugandans, everybody worked as a team against me. But fair play to them. They worked their hardest and they chucked everything at me.

“I just had to stay strong, believe in myself and think, I didn’t work for nothing. I’m losing in my home town. I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.”