Mo Farah

From Refugee to Record-Breaker: Farah’s Humble Beginnings Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah was born on March 23, 1983, in Somaliland, a region that would later become the independent state of Somaliland. His childhood was marked by hardship. When Farah was just eight years old, he was sent to live with relatives in Djibouti, fleeing the civil…