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Mo Farah

British track and field athlete (born 1983)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Sir Mohamed "Mo" Muktar Jama Farah is a British former long-distance runner. He holds the record for the most global championship gold medals, making him the most successful male track distance runner in the history of the sport, and he is the most successful British track athlete in Olympic Games history.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Farah, British and track can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mo Farah” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.