McColgan surges with 64.23-second last lap to edge Teferi of Israel, achieve crown in fifth different event; France’s Amdouni leads three athletes achieving Olympic standard, with Scott placing seventh and Farah taking eighth, snapping streak of nine straight 10,000 wins since runner-up finish at 2011 World finals

By Erik Boal, DyeStat Editor

Eilish McColgan secured a seventh career national title Sunday, achieving the feat in a fifth different event, by rallying with a 64.23-second final lap to edge Israel’s Selamawit Teferi by a 31:19.35 to 31:19.50 margin at the European 10,000-meter Cup and British Championships in Birmingham.

McColgan, a Scottish athlete who had previously won outdoor titles in the 3,000 steeplechase and 5,000 as well as indoor championships in the 1,500 and 3,000, added her first career 10,000 crown.

It marked her first race in the 25-lap event since achieving a personal-best 30:58.94 on Feb. 20 at Sound Running The Ten in San Juan Capistrano, Calif.

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Jessica Judd took third in 31:20.96, also achieving the Olympic standard for Great Britain. Fellow British athletes Verity Ockenden (31:43.70) and Amy-Eloise Markovc (32:04.38), who trains in Virginia with the Reebok Boston Track Club, finished fourth and fifth.

McColgan and Judd join 2019 British champion Stephanie Twell among the 34 female athletes globally who have achieved the Olympic standard.

The men’s European Cup race also had three athletes earn the Olympic standard, with Morhad Amdouni clocking 27:23.39 to hold off Belgium’s Bashir Abdi (27:24.41).

Spain’s Carlos Mayo was third in 27:25.00, three seconds under the standard to qualify to compete in Tokyo.

Marc Scott, a Bowerman Track Club athlete, was the top British competitor with a seventh-place finish in 27:49.94.

Scott, who captured British titles in the 5,000 in 2018 and 2020, had already achieved the Olympic standard Feb. 20 by running a personal-best 27:10.41 at Sound Running The Ten.

Mo Farah, who needed to run under 27:28.00 in order to earn the Olympic standard, was affected by a sore left ankle and finished eighth in 27:50.64 in his first 10,000 race since winning the World title in 2017 in London.

It marked the first 10,000 setback for Farah since a runner-up finish at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, South Korea. Farah had won nine consecutive 10,000 races in the past decade, including three World titles and two Olympic gold medals.

Farah, 38, has three more weeks to try to achieve the Olympic standard, with the window closing June 29. Only Scott and Sam Atkin have achieved the Olympic standard among British athletes thus far, two of the 30 athletes globally who have qualified.