Mo Farah to race 2019 London Marathon

    Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has announced he will race the 2019 London Marathon.

    The Briton was third in this year's race, his first over the 26.2-mile distance since quitting the track.

    Farah, 35, finished in two hours, six minutes and 21 seconds to break Steve Jones' 33-year-old British record.

    The Somali-born Londoner won October's Chicago Marathon in a new European record and wants to race at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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