Sir Mo Farah Coming to Gibraltar in April

Gibraltar Cultural Services, on behalf of the Ministries for Tourism and Culture, is delighted to announce Sir Mo Farah will be coming to Gibraltar in April 2026 as part of a prelude event to the 2026 Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival.

Minister for Equality, Employment, Culture and Tourism, The Hon. Christian Santos GMD MP is pleased to confirm that the sporting legend will be featuring in his capacity of writer as well as Olympian, having penned his autobiography and a series for children.

Various events are being coordinated for the weekend commencing Friday 17th April. The Friday will see an exclusive ‘In Conversation With’ Sir Mo Farah at the John Mackintosh Hall Theatre. On Saturday morning a charity ‘Round the Rock’ event will be organised, with all proceeds fundraised from the run donated to charity.

The 2026 Gibunco Gibraltar Literary Festival team are already working hard and looking ahead at presenting various fringe events to add to the 2026 festival week and build on the success of previous literary festivals.

Sir Mo Farah CBE

Sir Mo Farah, CBE, is a multiple Olympic, World and European gold medallist. For many, he is Britain’s greatest ever athlete, having accumulated 10 global titles which includes the ‘double double’ of gold medals over 5,000m and 10,000m at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. He holds numerous European and British records and has the World Best distance for the One Hour Run (21,330m). Sir Mo was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to athletics.

Sir Mo is passionate about philanthropic work and is a Save the Children Ambassador, as well as being the first ever global Goodwill Ambassador of the International Organisation for Migration. At the start of 2024, he became the National School Sport Champion for the Youth Sport Trust, embarking on ‘Mo’s Mission’ to encourage young people to be physically active for at least 60 minutes each day.

In January 2025 Sir Mo announced his new YouTube series 'Run with Mo', taking celebrities from across the world out for a run chatting about life, their careers, fitness and everything in between!

His publications include an autobiography ‘Twin Ambitions’ and a series for children the ‘Go Mo Go’.

Tickets for both the talk and run will be on sale at www.buytickets.gi and more details will be released shortly.

Don't want to miss the event? Register your interest to be first in line when tickets are released: https://forms.gle/wtCynMDQhLyYhRh97

For further information please contact Gibraltar Literary Festival Director on 20049161 or email development@culture.gov.gi