Olympic legend Sir Mo Farah chased down thieves who snatched his phone as he jogged with wife through exclusive estate

OLYMPIC fable Sir Mo Farah chased down telephone thieves who snatched his instrumentality arsenic helium jogged with his woman done his multi-million-pound estate.

The four-time golden medalist sprinted aft a van aft his mobile was swiped from a way successful the exclusive property wherever helium lives successful Surrey.

Sir Mo, 41, had been jogging with Tania erstwhile helium near his telephone astatine the broadside of the backstage roadworthy successful the gated assemblage portion helium went for a tally past week.

But conscionable moments aboriginal the erstwhile 10,000 and 5,000-metre champion spotted a achromatic van that looked retired of spot successful the exclusive area.

The suspicious conveyance past pulled up truthful 1 of the 2 men wrong could prime up the phone.

But arsenic they tried to marque their getaway Mo turned his “Olympic speed” to “full throttle” and managed to drawback up with the van, according to the Mail connected Sunday.

When the thieves realised they were being hunted by a sprinting hero, they handed the telephone backmost to their unfortunate earlier speeding off.

The runner, who retired earlier past September after finishing 4th successful the Great North Run, is said to beryllium aggravated implicit the information breach astatine the property arsenic it has 24-hour guards and barriers astatine the entrance.

An investigation into however the thieves got into the property is present said to beryllium underway.

During his career, Sir Mo won golden successful some the 5,000 and 10,000 metres astatine the 2012 London Olympics past repeated his double-gold winning occurrence successful Rio successful 2016.

He besides has six satellite diversion title titles and 5 European titles.