Mo Farah finishes fourth in The Big Half in final London race

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Mo Farah moving  successful  The Big HalfMo Farah volition discontinue aft competing astatine the Great North Run connected 10 September

Mo Farah's last contention successful his location metropolis of London ended with the four-time Olympic champion finishing 4th successful The Big Half.

The 40-year-old stayed successful interaction with the starring battalion for the archetypal fractional of Sunday's elite men's contention but dropped backmost aft astir 30 minutes.

Jack Rowe claimed triumph successful a idiosyncratic champion of 1 hr 1 infinitesimal 8 seconds, with Farah clocking 1:02:43.

Calli Thackery won the elite women's contention successful 1:09:15.

Rose Harvey (1:10:02) was 47 seconds down Thackery successful 2nd and Abbie Donnelly was 3rd successful 1:10:31.

Mahamed Mahamed led for overmuch of the men's contention but finished 8 seconds down aft being dropped by Rowe successful the last stages, portion Andrew Butchart (1:02:15) was third.

Farah, who has six satellite titles to spell with his 4 Olympic golds, was adjacent to decorativeness and has confirmed helium volition discontinue aft competing astatine the Great North Run connected 10 September.

"It was rather affectional due to the fact that I haven't been feeling good this week arsenic I've got a spot of a cold," said Farah.

"I wasn't definite if I could bash the contention but I was reasoning of each the radical that came retired present and that I'm not going to get different chance.

"I came retired contiguous and gave my champion but you can't instrumentality thing distant from Jack. He's been moving hard for the past 3 years and helium deserved that win."

He added: "When you execute everything, it indispensable travel to an extremity astatine immoderate point. I'm getting connected a bit."

David Weir won the men's wheelchair contention aft a sprint decorativeness with Danny Sidbury, with Johnboy Smith successful third.

There was besides a adjacent decorativeness successful the women's equivalent arsenic Samantha Kinghorn claimed triumph from Eden Rainbow-Cooper, with Mel Woods third.

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