In a BBC documentary aired earlier this week, Farah revealed how as a boy at the age of nine or ten years, he was separated from his family and trafficked from neighboring Djibouti to the UK.
Farah said he thought he was going to Europe to live with relatives and recalled going through a British passport check under the guise of Mohamed at the age of nine.
The 38-year-old Farah had won a grand double, clinching the 5,000m and 10,000m gold at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympics.
In the final race of the meet, Farah covered 21.330km, thus breaking Haile Gebrselassie's 13-year-old record of 21.285km.
According to reports, Mo Farah, 36, decided to withdraw from the meet after sustaining a minor Achilles injury in training.
Farah appeared to have better chances to win the prestigious award in previous years as well, having won the 5,000/10,000 double at the Olympics in 2012 and '16 and at the world championship in 2013 and '15.
Muktar Edris put an end to Mo Farah's dominance in the distance races at the world championships on Saturday, and he crossed the line doing the move that Farah made famous at the Olympics five years ago.
I was concentrating on my race, so I don't know how he was running but I feel good to have run alongside him, Lakshmanan added.
Ugandan youngster Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda took silver and Paul Tanui of Kenya claimed bronze with Farah having once again foiled their respective nations' tactics.
At 50 meters, Bolt started pulling ahead. At 75 meters, he was looking to his left, where he saw nobody. At 90 meters, he was shutting things down to coast to the finish line.
Moscow: Briton Mo Farah completed the double-double by winning the 5000m at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.The 30-year-old British long-distance runner, became just the second man in history to hold both the Olympic and
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