Mo Farah stakes his claim among the greats Mo Farah celebrating the world title with the now-famous 'Mobot' pose. Mo Farah has staked a claim to being one of the greatest middle-distance runners and probably Britain's greatest athlete after adding his third world title to his two Olympic gold medals. Farah has now, in British terms at least, probably gone past decathlete Daley Thompson and middle distance runner Seb Coe. Farah is the only British athlete to win three world titles. On Friday night in Moscow he defended his 5000 metre world title in 13 minutes 26.98 seconds after aggressively holding out the closing push of Ethiopia's Hagos Gebrhiwet in silver and Kenya's Isiah Koech bronze. Farah won the 5 km gold in Daegu (2011) and Moscow, and the 10k gold in Moscow after winning silver in the longer race in Daegu. He won the gold in the double at the London Olympic Games. In winning in Moscow he became only the second athlete to twice win the 5000 at world championships and joins Kenya's Kenenisa Bekele in winning the 10k at back-to-back Olympics and world championships. Thompson won two Olympic gold medals and a world championship, Lord Coe won two Olympic 1500 golds and two 800 silvers. Thompson however also broke the world record four times. Meanwhile having done well to make the final, Australia's Brett Robinson finished at the back of the field. Australia's men's relay team were also unable to replicate their heroics when they surged home to make the relay final. The Australians trailed the field coming in eighth in 3:02.26. The US won the relay in 2:58.71. The long jump was figured to be wide open this year with Olympic gold medallist Greg Rutherford not making the final and the silver medallist, Australia's Mitch Watt, not competing. But that was underestimating Russia's Aleksandr Menkov who jumped 8.56 - longer than needed for last year's Olympic gold - to comfortably claim gold. It was a disappointing night for another champion with America's Allyson Felix tearing a hamstring in the first 50 of the 200 final and being unable to finish. Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser Price won in a time of 22.17.