Britain's double Olympic champion Mohamed Farah claimed the title of men's 10,000m event at the 2013 World Championship here on Saturday.

It was a sweet revenge for Farah who was beaten by a 52.8- second last lap from the Ethiopian surprise Ibrahim Jeilan in Daegu worlds in 2011.

Farah kept a low profile at the beginning of the race, staying at the last in the first three laps. He dashed to take the lead after the 6th lap before immediately slowing down to hide himself in the middle of the chasing group.

The 30-year-old Briton, gold medalist of men's 5000m and 10, 000m at London Games, speeded up to seize the lead again with two laps to go and held off a homestretch charge from defending champion Jeilan to win the 25-lap race in 27 minutes, 21.71 seconds.

"I am excited to win the competition. It was a great race and I respected all my competitors. Jeilan won the gold medal in the last World Championships and today Tanui quite well pushed the pace. I am not dominating the long distance, what I want is only to collect more medals for my family and my country, "said Farah after the race.

"I had the experience from a couple of years ago and I saw Jeilan coming at the bell. I didn't want to lose again. I remember a couple of years ago I was second and I was just digging in, digging in and make sure I didn't over stride," he added. "I kept looking across and you could see in my eyes, I was just making sure they didn't come after me. It was nice to come out here and win it. That was the one missing."

Jeilan, who missed almost all of last year and didn't compete in London, finished second in 27:22.23 while Kenya's Paul Kipngetich Tanui, the 2011 World Cross Country Championships silver medallist, finished third in 27:22.61.

Farah's US training partner and friend Galen Rupp, who won the Olympic silver medal 12 months ago as the first US Olympic medalist in this event for 48 years, failed to maintain a podium finish as he clocked 27:24.39 to settle in the fourth place.