Telegraph — Mo Farah, whose brilliant form in the winter culminated in the European indoor 3,000 metres crown, served notice that he will be a force to be reckoned with this summer by breaking the 25-year-old British 10km road record.

Farah, 26, was an impressive winner of the Bupa London 10,000 after running away from Kenya’

s Samuel Kosgei at the 7km mark and crossing the finish line in The Mall in a time of 27min 50sec.

That was five seconds quicker than the previous official record set by Mark Scrutton in Arizona in 1984.

 

“I didn’t even know I’d broken the British record,” Farah said. “I’ve just heard that now, which is nice to hear. All I wanted to do was to go close to 28 minutes.”
Farah, who has just returned from a three-week high-altitude training camp hosted by Paula Radcliffe at Font Romeu, France, finished 13 seconds ahead of second-placed Kosgei, with Ukraine’

s Sergiy Lebid, the eight-time European cross-country champion, third in 28min 36sec.

New Zealander Kim Smith was the runaway winner of the women’s race, recording a time of 31min 38sec, with Britain’

s Hatti Dean second in 33min 52sec.

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