Farah wins 3,000m in London then reveals he'll take break from the track next month to focus on marathon

Welcome back, Mo: The 50,000 strong Olympic Stadium crowd greeted Farah with his signature celebration

Mo Farah sparked fears that he would quit the track for good after the World Championships and concentrate on the marathon.

Farah will go in the 5,000metres and 10,000m in Moscow, and after winning the 3,000m on Saturday he said: ‘For me, this will be it. No more on the track. I’ll be doing the Great North Run half-marathon. Then I’ll take a break, and then get ready for the marathon.’

Unstoppable: Mo Farah hit the front with around 500m to go and couldn't be caught

Asked if his track career would definitely be over, Farah said: ‘If I’m good at the marathon and it works well, you could see me in the marathon [in the Rio Olympics in 2016].’


But agent, Ricky Simms, said Farah would return to the track after next year’s London Marathon.

Earlier, Farah won easily when he hit the front with around 500m to go and came home in seven minutes 36.85 seconds. 

David Moorcroft's 31-year-old British record of 7mins 32.79secs was never on the cards - Farah said it would have taken too much out of him - but the bumper crowd which roared Farah on could not have cared less. 


American Ryan Hill finished second, more than five seconds behind the Briton. Farah was watched by his two twin daughters, born weeks after his Olympic success, and admitted it had been an 'emotional' return. 


'It brought back great memories of 2012,' he said. 'The crowd was similar to what it was at the Olympics. 


'I've got my twin girls here in the stadium. At the Olympics my wife was almost giving birth in the stadium and they are here today. 


'It was nice for them to come out here and see daddy win.' 

Welcome back, Mo: The 50,000 strong Olympic Stadium crowd greeted Farah with his signature celebration

Speaking immediately after the race, Farah had spoken about the constantly changing challenges in athletics, without giving a hint of his future plans.

'There're always new guys and sometimes they are more hungry than anything else,' he said when asked about breaking the European record over 1500m eight days ago.

'My experience helps me a lot, but at the same time there's always someone new.

'It's important to stay focused and win races.

'I am (the man to beat) and that's hard sometimes. Every time you race you're a marked man with an X on your back.'

Source: dailymail.co.uk