Sir Mo Farah among Oxford honorary degree recipients

Sir Mo Farah won four Olympic gold medals during his career

Olympic hero Sir Mo Farah, journalist Clive Myrie and the former prime minister of New Zealand, Dame Jacinda Arden, will receive honorary degrees from the University of Oxford.

Sir Mo is among nine recipients who will be honoured by the university at a special ceremony on 25 June.

The long-distance runner won gold medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m races at the London 2012 games - a feat he repeated four years later in Rio de Janeiro.

Since his retirement from athletics in 2023, he has gone on to reveal how he was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant during his youth.

When making the revelation, Sir Mo told the BBC that sport had been a lifeline for him growing up as "the only thing I could do to get away from this [living situation] was to get out and run".

After taking up running, he went on to become Team GB's most successful ever track and field athlete, and became synonymous with his customary "Mobot" celebration.

The 'Mobot' became a regular sight at athletics events during Sir Mo's career

Alongside Sir Mo, BBC News journalist and presenter Clive Myrie, who also presents Mastermind, will also be honoured, as well as his BBC colleague Lord Melvyn Bragg.

Lord Bragg has worked at the corporation since the early 1960s, and currently presents the Radio 4 series In Our Time - alongside his work as an author and member of the House of Lords.

Former prime minister of New Zealand Dame Jacinda Arden will also be honoured as part of the ceremony.

BBC journalist Clive Myrie will also be honoured

Dame Jacinda led her country for five years, and was widely celebrated around the globe for her management during a term in government defined by a series of crises.

Having resigned from her position in 2023, in part due to her waning popularity at home, Dame Jacinda recently took up a role alongside Rishi Sunak at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government.

Other recipients of the honorary degrees are Ukrainian history expert Prof Serhii Plokhii, Irish writer prof Colm Tóibín and German biophysicist Prof Erwin Neher.

Scientist and entrepreneur Prof Robert S Langer and historian Prof Timothy Snyder, both from the US, will also be honoured.