After withdrawing from last year’s London Marathon, Sir Mo—who turns 40 in March—will toe the line for London in April.
Farah’s athletics career has been garlanded with multiple victories but his marathon career has perhaps not quite lived up to the early promise—breaking the British record at his first marathon in London 2018, and then victory atthe same year, setting a then European record of 2:05:11. In 2019—the last year he raced over the distance—he finished fifth at London and eighth in Chicago.
In 2020 he took part at the elite-only marathon, pacing fellow Brits Jonny Mellor and Ben Connor—who also will run in this year’s race—to Olympic qualifying times, but as a pacer, naturally did not complete the full distance. His European record has also subsequently been lowered to 2:03:35 by hisHowever he clearly still feels he has unfinished business over 26.2 miles. “I’m very proud of what I have achieved,” he said. “I just want to give myself one more shot and see what I can do.
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