BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's Mo Farah returned to the track in style on Friday after three years away when he broke the world record for the one-hour run while Safan Hassan smashed the women's equivalent by more than a lap at the Brussels Diamond League meeting.
Multiple Olympic and world champion Farah, 37, ran 21,330 metres -- just over 53 laps -- to beat Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie's mark, set in Ostrava 13 years ago, by 45 metres to claim the first world record outdoors of a remarkable career.
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