A fired-up Mo Farah was determined that no-one would deny him a fourth Olympic gold medal as he completed the long-distance double at a second straight Games by storming to 5,000m glory in Rio on Saturday night.

A week after picking himself off the track following a trip to claim 10,000m gold, Farah avoided any such drama and burst clear down the home straight to cross the line in 13 minutes 3.30 seconds.

He produced a scorching final lap of 52.83secs to hold off the challenge of Paul Kipkemoi Chelimo of the United States, who came home in 13:03.90 and was finally awarded silver after a raft of disqualifications and reinstatements. Hagos Gebrhiwet of Ethiopia got bronze.

Victory saw 33-year-old Farah become only the second man after “Flying Finn” Lasse Viren to win both long-distance track titles at two Olympics.

His four Olympic titles took him past the three won by Ethiopian great Kenenisa Bekele and is twice as many as any other British track and field athlete has won.

The Briton has now won nine straight global titles in a run of utter domination stretching back to 2011.

“It means so much to me, I can’t believe I did it,” said Farah. “I dreamt of being Olympic champion once, and then I did it in London and that was incredible. And then four years later to do it again — there are no words to really describe it.”