The United States-based Scott just beat the 38-year-old multiple world and Olympic champion to seventh place overall to win the British Championship and Olympic Trial that was incorporated in the event at the University of Birmngham track, clocking 27min 49.83sec to Farah’s 27:50.54.

Unlike Farah, however, Scott has booked his Tokyo 2020 place as he has already run well inside the qualifying time this year and holds the leading European mark of 27:10.41.

Now Farah, who was running his first track 10,000m in four years in order to attempt to defend his title in Tokyo after an extended period of road running, needs to get the qualifying mark by the deadline of June 29.

It was his first defeat over the distance since the 2011 World Championships in Daegu.

All six runners ahead of the two Britons set personal bests, with the title going to France’s European champion Morhad Amdouni in 27:23.39 and second place to the Belgian athlete who took silver behind him at the 2018 Berlin Championships - Bashir Abdi, Farah’s sometime training partner, who ran 27:24.41.

Spain’s Carlos Mayo was third in 27:25.00, Nils Voigt of Germany was fourth in 27:49.04, Yann Schrub of France placed fifth in 27:49.64 and Jesus Ramos of Spain was sixth in 27:49.73.

Britain’s Eilish McColgan, who already had the Olympic qualifying standard, secured her Tokyo Olympics place with victory in the women’s event, where she clocked 31:19.21.

That was well inside the women’s Olympic qualifying mark of 31:25.00, but the 30-year-old daughter of Britain’s 1991 world champion Liz McColgan and former Northern Ireland international 10,000m runner and steeplechaser Peter McColgan had already clocked 30:58.94 this season, making her the fastest in the field.

She lived up to that billing with a final lap of 64.23 and a determined finish that took her past Israel’s Selamawit Teferi, who has clocked 31:43.72 this year, in the final few strides.

"The last kilometre was an absolute blur," McColgan told Athletics Weekly.

"I’m over the moon with that.

"My mum was saying do not leave this to a last lap sprint!"

There was good Tokyo news too for Jessica Judd, who had previously missed the qualifying standard by just 0.98sec this season, as she dipped under it with a personal best of 31:20.84 in third place.

Britons filled the fourth and fifth places as Verity Ockendon clocked a personal best of 31:43.57 and Amy-Eloise Markovc, who won the European Athletics Indoor 3,000m title in Torun in March, recorded 32:04.19, which was going in the wrong direction for her given she missed the Olympic mark by just 0.91sec earlier this season.