Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia took the bronze at 13:04.35.
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China picked up more medals than Britain with 70 but with 26 of them gold and only one more athlete left to compete, the nation can not overtake Team GB.
The Briton has now won nine straight global titles in a run of utter domination stretching back to 2011.
“I watch myself a little bit, just try and do my homework a bit”. And then four years later to do it again – there are no words to really describe it.
To come back year after year to win is pretty wonderful.
“There was pushing but that is part and parcel of the race”.
“More people are doing sport, we’re winning more”.
Farah started in typical fashion, sitting at the back of the field, but he moved through to the front with less than 2,000m remaining and controlled the pace from that point.
He finally hit the front with just under 2,000m to go and from there it was the same old story for his rivals. He crossed the line with his arms open wide and his eyes closed in ecstasy. Farah ran most of the race away from the clutter that can lead to a stumble similar to what he had to recover from in the 10,000, and he finished in 13:03.30, pulling away around the final turn.
“To be honest I can’t believe it”, he said.
“The guys make it tough because you are a target”.
Alex Donohue of Ladbrokes said: “It looks like a certainty that we hear arise Sir Mo sooner rather than later so we’ve paid out on all Farah knighthood bets early”.
Great Britain’s Mo Farah has revealed that he is planning to end his track career after next year’s World Championships on home soil in London. And, boy, will he be missed.
Mo Farah is to distance running what Usain Bolt is to sprinting.
The 33-year-old triumphed in the 5,000m final in Rio to extend his tally as Britain’s most successful Olympic track and field athlete of all time.
And the last member of the Farah brood has not been left out.
“I’m going to engrave their names on each of the medal so they have something when I am gone”.
“The Olympics get tougher but all my four kids have one medal each so it’s the best thing ever”, he added, ruling out having any more children.
(Jae C. Hong/AP) Mo Farah added the 5000m gold to his collection, completing the long-distance “double double” of 5000m and 10000m in Rio and London 2012. Chelimo, a member of the U.S. Army’s World Class Athlete Program, became the first U.S. man to win an Olympic medal in the event since 1964.
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That number matched their momentous achievement from four years ago in London, and while it was surpassed later that evening as the women’s 4x400m claimed bronze, it was a total few thought would be repeated in Brazil.
