Double Olympic champion Mo Farah takes Cardiff bronze

Double Olympic champion Mo Farah had to settle for bronze in the World Half Marathon Championships in Cardiff.

Defending champion Geoffrey Kamworor fell at the start and was almost trampled under a stampede of athletes, but made it to his feet and finished ahead of Bedan Karoki to claim back-to-back wins in the event.

The Kenyan pair kept up a near world-record pace throughout the race and were shoulder to shoulder approaching the final mile before Kamworor forged ahead through horizontal rain and gusting winds to finish in 59:10

Olympic and world 5,000m and 10,000m champion Farah, who beat Kamworor in the 10,000m world championship race in Beijing last year, finished strongly and overtook Ethiopia's Abayneh Ayele in the home straight but was 49 seconds adrift of the winner.

"I am disappointed," Farah told the BBC. "With great support from the home crowd it would have been nice to win.

"But there were better athletes who won on the day, the guys were strong and I couldn't go with it. I did run a fast time but as an athlete you always want to win. It gives me massive motivation for Rio."

Kenya's women completed a second successive clean sweep of the podium with Peres Jechirchir kicking away from pre-race favourite Cynthia Limo near the finish to take the title.

Mary Wacera Ngugi was third.