Team GB Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah scoops European athletics award

British Olympic hero Mo Farah has been voted European Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year.

In the history of the Olympics, Farah became only the seventh man, and fifth European, to achieve the distance double. He was also the first to achieve such an accomplishment in front of a home crowd. Despite his hugely successful summer, the first few months of 2012 signalled that such a dramatic end to the year would not be possible. The runner had only won one of his four indoor competitions and, despite setting a European indoor two miles best, he had to settle for fourth place as he finished outside the medals over 3,000m at the World Indoor Championships. Farah's true colours emerged however once the outdoor season began. At the Diamond League meeting in Eugene in early June, he won over 5,000m in 12:56.98, the best time by a European runner this year, and he did not look back after that.