Farah returns to track in style by breaking one-hour record

Athletics - Diamond League - Brussels - King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels, Belgium - September 4, 2020. Britain's Mo Farah celebrates after winning the Men's One Hour Final and setting a new world record. [REUTERS/Francois Lenoir]

Britain’s Mo Farah returned to the track in style on Friday after three years away when he broke the world record for the one-hour run while Safan Hassan smashed the women’s equivalent by more than a lap at the Brussels Diamond League meeting.

Multiple Olympic and world champion Farah, 37, ran 21,330 metres — just over 53 laps — to beat Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie’s mark, set in Ostrava 13 years ago, by 45 metres to claim the first world record outdoors of a remarkable career.