Zurich Diamond League: Mo Farah's final track race; Ujah wins 100m

Summary

Mo Farah wins final track race to clinch 5,000m Diamond League title
World champion Muktar Edris falls at finish and comes third
16 series champions decided at Zurich Diamond League meeting
CJ Ujah beats Justin Gatlin to win 100m Diamond League trophy
Miller-Uibo beats Thompson, Ta Lou & Schippers in 200m
Sally Pearson wins 100m hurdles
Isaac Makwala wins 400m final
GB women second in 4x100m

Live Reporting

Mike Henson

Hejnova winspublished at 19:06 British Summer Time 24 August 2017
Women's 400m hurdles
A season's best for two-time world champion Czech Zuzana Hejonova as she comes home in 54.13 seconds.
Eilidh Doyle of Great Britain went off hard, perhaps a bit too hard. She went backwards in the last 50m and finished down in fifth in 55.09.
That is well done on her season's best of 54.36 seconds.
The card continuedpublished at 19:04 British Summer Time 24 August 2017
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The post 20:00 BST race card for your perusal:
20:08 BST: Men's 100m featuring Justin Gatlin, CJ Ujah and Adam Gemili.
20:14 BST: Men's 5000m featuring Mo Farah and Muktar Edris
20:35 BST: 100m hurdles featuring Sally Pearson, Dawn Harper-Nelson and Jasmin Stowers
20:43 BST: Men's 400m featuring Isaac Makwala and Steven Gardiner
20:54 BST: Women's 4x100m relay featuring Great Britain's team of Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita
The cardpublished at 19:02 British Summer Time 24 August 2017
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Right, let's have a look at the slate for tonight.
Only the opening 400m hurdles and final relay is not a Diamond League final, otherwise this a meeting more stacked than 70s-era Schwarzenegger.
19:05 BST: Women's400m hurdles featuring Zuzana Hejnova and Eilidh Doyle
19:13 BST: Men's 1500m featuring Elijah Motonei Manangoi and Jake Wightman
19:24 BST: Women's 200m featuring Elaine Thompson, Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Dafne Schippers
19:31 BST: Women's 3000m steeplechase featuring Emma Coburn and Beatrice Chepkoech
19:45 BST: Men's long jump featuring Luvo Manyonga and Jarrion Lawson
19:49 BST: Men's 400m hurdles featuring Karsten Warholm, Kerron Clement and Kyron McMaster
19:55 BST: Men's javelin featuring Johannes Vetter and Thomas Rohler
19:58 BST: Women's 800m featuring Caster Semenya and Francine Niyonsaba
Deep breath, the second hour of power is coming right up.
Marathon future for Mopublished at 19:01 British Summer Time 24 August 2017
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May 2014: Farah finishes eighth in London marathon
After tonight's 5000m final, Farah steps away from the track take on the hard, lonely miles of the road.
After the Great North Run in September, he is going to concentrate on the marathon.
The Daily Mail reported, external earlier this month that a six-figure sum could convince him to run at the next two editions of the London Marathon. Farah himself also name-checked New York, Boston and Berlin as possible race venues.
Farah finished eighth in a time of two hours, eight minutes and 21 seconds at the 2014 London Marathon, his only attempt at the distance.
Dennis Kimetto's world record - set the same year in Berlin - is almost five and a half minutes quicker.
One Mo timepublished at 18:58 British Summer Time 24 August 2017
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Since making the step up to senior level in 2006, Mo Farah has run 690,864 m on the track, collected 10-global level gold medals, another eight European gongs, come up with a trademark celebration, had three kids, knocked out a couple of books and and became the first person to beat the Cube in the ITV gameshow, external.
It's been a busy 11 years or so.
Tonight - in track terms at least - it all comes to an end.