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Mo Farah had no complaints about finishing second to Ethiopian great Kenenisa Bekele after being pipped to the post in the Great North Run today.
The build-up had focused on the contest between the British Olympic champion, Bekele and Haile Gebrselassie.
And the race did not disappoint as the trio remained glued together for most of the 13.1-mile course across Tyneside in wind and rain.
It was Bekele who led the runners home in a time of one hour and nine seconds, holding off a late charge over the last 100 metres from Farah, who finished one second adrift.
“It was a good race, a great finish,” Farah said. “He has great speed and it came down to the last 200 metres and right to the line.”
In the women’s race Kenya’s Priscah Jeptoo led home Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba, both of Ethiopia.
David Weir won the men’s wheelchair race for the fourth time, while Shelly Woods landed her fifth title in the women’s wheelchair event.
