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Mo Farah won his sixth global distance titles in a row as he retained his 10,000m crown in Beijing.

Despite a last-lap stumble, Farah won Britain’s first gold of the 2015 World Championships seven years after he crashed out of the Olympics after failing to qualify from the heats of the 5,000m at the same venue.

The 32-year-old Olympic champion saw off the efforts of two Kenyan challengers before producing a last lap of 54.15 seconds to come away from Geoffrey Kamworor and Paul Tanui in the home straight.

Kamworor took silver and Tanui bronze with Farah’s training partner Galen Rupp fading into fifth behind Bedan Muchiri.

Describing it as his toughest championship race, Farah said he knew his Kenyan and Ethiopian rivals would attempt to negate his kick finish by running quickly early.

“I knew the guys were going to do that, too many years now they’ve left it slow so they had to do it and it did happen,” he said.

“It was a matter of digging in and hopefully it didn’t take too much out of me for the 5,000m. It’s not easy running 27 minutes in this heat.

“The last lap, that was close – I honestly thought at one point I was gone because I stumbled. The Olympics were pretty tough because of the pressure and being at home, but at the same time it was never that quick.”