Mo Farah bows out from track racing in Britain at the Birmingham Diamond League

There were large crowds at a fairly full Alexander Stadium as British fans said au-revoir to Sir Mo Farah who is retiring from his track career to concentrate on marathons from next season. And he didn’t disappoint…only eight days after winning gold over 10,000m and silver over 5,000m at the IAAF World Championships in London, Sir Mo hit the front with just over a lap to go and completed 3,000m with a roar in 7:38.64 just ahead of Spain’s Adel Mechaal.

Other stellar performances lit up a grey afternoon in the West Midlands. Mutaz Barshim wowed the galleries with a World Lead (WL) 2.40m in the Men’s High Jump. Sifan Hassan set a Meeting Record (MR) and National Record (NR) in the Women’s 3,000m with a time of 8:28.90. And on the day that father Geoff stepped down from the commentary box, Jake Wightman was the first British winner of the Emsley Carr Mile since 2005.

Ramil Guliyev continued his great form from London with victory in the Men’s 200m - 0.09 ahead of Ameer Webb, with Aaron Brown third in 20.30 (SB).

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 CJ Ujah with the 2018 Commonwealth Games baton

 Alexandra Bell at the start of the Women's 800m

 Habitam Alemu (Ethiopia) winning the Women's 800 ahead of Lynsey Sharp

 Sophie Hahn winning the T37/T38 Women's 100m ahead of Kadeena Cox

 

 Kadeena Cox, Sophie Hahn, Georgina Hermitage

 Tom Bosworth winning the Walk vs Run race ahead of Adam Clarke

 

  Tom Bosworth & Adam Clarke

 Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) winning Heat 1 of the Women's 100m ahead of Dina Asher-Smith

 Marie-Josee Ta Lou (Ivory Coast) winning Heat 2 of the Women's 100m ahead of Daphe Schippers (Netherlands)

 The start of the Emsley Carr Mile

 Jake Wightman winning the Emsley Carr Mile ahead of Chris O'Hare

 Ntando Mahlangu (South Africa) winning the T42 Men's 200m ahead of Richard Whitehead

 Jonny Peacock winning the T44 Men's 100m ahead of Jarryd Wallace (USA)

 Zuzana Hejnova (Czech Republic) winning the Women's 400m hurdles

Nijel Amos (Botswana) running ahead of the pack to win the Men's 800m

 Elliot Giles and Kyle Langford 

  C J Ujah winning the Men's 100m ahead of James Dasaolu

 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Zharnel Hughes, Ojie Edoburun

 Dwayne Cowan winning the Men's 400m

 Sifan Hassan (Netherlands) winning the Women's 3000m

Orlando Ortega (Spain) and Andrew Pozzi, Men's 110m hurdles

 Balazs Baji (Hungary), Sergey Shubenkov (ANA) and winner Aries Merritt (USA) - Men's 110m hurdles

  Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) winning the Women's 100m ahead of Dina Asher-Smith

 Isaac Makwala (Botswana) - Men's 200m

 Ramil Guliyev (Turkey) winning the Men's 200m

 Ramil Guliyev

 Jenny Meadows - pace maker in the Women's 1500m

 Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) celebrates his win in the Men's High Jump

 Mutaz Essa Barshim

 Dawit Seyaum (Ethiopia) wins the Women's 1500m

 Allyson Felix (USA) runner up in the Women's 400m

Full results can be found here: https://birmingham.diamondleague.com/list_results_bham/#baseFrame