BISH BASH JOSH

Kerr out to get the job done

- BY CHARLIE BENNETT in Tokyo

THE champion is 1,500m away from becoming a legend.

Josh Kerr (above) is bidding to emulate Mo Farah and Jess Ennis-Hill today and enter the pantheon of British sporting greats by bagging back-to-back World Championship golds.

If he does so, the Scotsman will join double Olympic champion Seb Coe as a king of British middle-distance running.

Coe, now World Athletics president, will be watching what will be a legacy-defining race for Kerr, 27.

He might not have to go through his great rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen or Olympic champion Cole Hocker, but this is still a wide-open field.