Sir Mo Farah will aim to clinch a Tokyo Olympics place on Saturday when he runs in the European 10,000m Cup at the British Athletics 10,000m Championships in Birmingham in what will be the first time he has raced the distance on a track since winning gold at the Worlds in 2017.
The four-time Olympic medallist must beat the qualifying mark of 27 minutes 28 seconds and finish in the top two. He will race against Marc Scott, who ran 27:10.41 in February.
Scott's time moved him second on the UK all-time rankings behind Farah's national record of 26:46.57.
Farah, who has only raced once in 2021 when he won the Djibouti half-marathon in March, said: "I've missed the track a lot. The 10,000m on the track has been very good to me so I am excited to get back out there and see what I can do." He, and Scott, will be joined at the University of Birmingham Athletics Track by Jake Smith, Emile Cairess, Kristian Jones and Matt Leach in the Great Britain men's team.
The women's team will be led by Eilish McColgan and completed by Amy-Eloise Markovc, Jessica Judd, Jenny Nesbitt, Verity Ockenden and Samantha Harrison. Sir Mo, who won gold over 5,000m and 10,000m at London 2012 and Rio 2016, recently said that he will quit the track after Tokyo.
The rearranged Olympic Games take place between July 23 and August 8 with the men's 10,000m on Friday, July 30.
