The Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion is sure to draw in the crowds at Glasgow 2014.
Mo Farah is the current 5,000m Olympic, world and European champion and 10,000m Olympic title holder.
He won Britain’s first men’s European gold medal at 10,000m in July 2010 and followed this with a gold in the 5,000m, becoming the first British male athlete, and the fifth man, to complete the long-distance double at the championships.
He was voted European Athlete of the Year in 2011 and 2012 and received a CBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list following his Olympic success.
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- born in Somalia on March 23 1983
- competes in the 1,500m, 3,000m, 5,000m and 10,000m
- won gold in the 5,000m and 10,000m at the London 2012 Olympics
- holds the European track and British road records for 10,000m, the British indoor record for 3,000m, the British track and European indoor records for 5,000m and the British half-marathon record
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