What was Mo Farah's first name at birth?

Sir Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah (born 23 March 1983) is a British long-distance runner. His ten global championship gold medals make him the most successful male track distance runner ever, and he is the most successful British track athlete in modern Olympic Games history.

His athletic talent was first identified by physical education teacher Alan Watkinson. Farah's ambition was to become a car mechanic or play as a right winger for Arsenal football club. He later joined the Borough of Hounslow Athletics Club in west London. At the London 2012 Olympics, on 4 August, Farah won the 10,000 metres gold in a time of 27:30.42, Great Britain's first Olympic gold medal in the event. On 11 August 2012, Farah made it a long-distance double, winning the 5000 metres in a time of 13:41.66. Farah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2013 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics.

In July 2022 he revealed that he was born Hussein Abdi Kahin, that his father had died in the Somaliland War of Independence when he was aged four, and that he became separated from his mother. At the age of nine he was illegally trafficked to the United Kingdom, when he was given a new name and was forced to work as a domestic servant. He was flown from Djibouti to the UK by a woman he had never met, and then made to look after another family's children. He gained British citizenship in July 2000 under the name Mohamed Farah.