Mo Farah will retire from the track after tonight's Zurich Diamond League where he will aim to bow out with a farewell victory over 5000m. While Farah seldom chased fast times, he will move to the roads with an unparalleled record in major championships, including four Olympic titles, five European titles and six world titles.
We have gone back more than a decade to pick out ten of his most memorable races on the track.
2006 European Championships, Gothenburg
Having recently improved his 5000m PB from 13:30.53 down to 13:09.40, Farah was tipped to claim his first senior track title in Gothenburg but the Brit was pipped to the post by Spain’s Jesus Espana. They both covered the last four laps in under four minutes.
2009 Glasgow International Match
Farah suffered the ignominy of exiting in the 5000m heats at the Beijing Olympics but he opened his 2009 account by claiming his first British track record over 3000m, stopping the clock at 7:40.99. He improved to 7:34.47 in Birmingham the following month, a further precursor to his first senior track title at the European Indoor Championships in Turin.
2010 European Championships, Barcelona
Farah just missed out on claiming the 5000m title four years earlier but Farah comprehensively defeated Espana on home soil in Barcelona to become the first athlete since Salvatore Antibo in 1990 to claim a long distance double at the European Championships.
2010 Zurich Weltklasse
He had the beating of the best of the continent at the European Championships and Farah was beginning to make an impact globally. Two weeks after claiming two gold medals in Barcelona, Farah was fifth in the Zurich Diamond League in 12:57.94, breaking David Moorcroft’s long-standing British 5000m record of 13:00.41.
2011 World Championships, Daegu
Farah just missed out on the 10,000m title on the first day of the championships but employing what soon became his trademark tactics, Farah held the inside line at the bell and fended off a field packed with fast finishers to claim his first of five successive global 5000m titles.
2012 Olympic Games, London
The noise inside the Olympic Stadium for the closing stages of the 5000m final was such that it caused the photo finish camera adjacent to the finish-line to shake, distorting the official photo-finish image. Farah outsprinted Ethiopia's Dejen Gebremeskel to become the seventh athlete to achieve the 5000/10,000m double.
2013 European Team Championships, London
The outcome was very much expected but Farah nonetheless dazzled the crowds with a last lap of 50.89 off a slow pace in the 5000m.
2013 Monaco Herculis
But what was not expected was that Farah - who ran the first half of the London Marathon in April as a precursor to his full debut the following spring - would run a European 1500m record of 3:28.81 in the Monaco Diamond League just a month later, a time which puts him tenth on the world all-time lists.
2016 Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro
Farah’s title defence in the 10,000m came under some jeopardy when he was tripped and fell to the track but he patiently worked his way back into contention before overwhelming his rivals once again on the last lap. He also defended his 5000m title, becoming just the second athlete after Lasse Viren to claim the Olympic long distance double twice.
2017 World Championships, London
Farah hasn’t lost a race over 10,000m since 2011 but seldom has he been tested quite as much as he was in his farewell race at the distance. The Kenyan trio put in a series of hard surges to break Farah but the reigning two-time champion still came out on top once more with another imperious last lap sprint. His winning time of 26:49.51 was his fastest in a major championships.