Trowbridge Tornado Danny Talbot won the 200 metres as Great Britain and Northern Ireland won the Aviva International Match in Glasgow.

Talbot, 20, took the scalp of world 100m bronze medallist Kim Collins with a time of 21.17s and said: “It’s an honour just to be on the track with him so to beat him is something else.

“I’m very happy. To come here and win in that time, on a not particularly fast track, is pleasing. It gives me a lot of confidence.

“Last year I ran 21.38 here so I’ve knocked two tenths off. If I can continue that progression and knock two tenths off my outdoor time then I’ll definitely have the Olympic qualifying time and shouldn’t be too far off the Olympic final hopefully.”

Mo Farah got a taste of the support he can expect in the Olympics this summer.

World 5,000 metres champion Farah dropped down to 1,500m at the Kelvin Hall as part of his plan to improve his sprint finish ahead of a bid for Olympic glory in London.

And the 28-year-old got just the result he wanted with a hard-fought win over Kenya’s Augustine Choge – the fastest in the world indoors last year – to bring a capacity 3,500-strong crowd to their feet.

“It was definitely a good test, a good battle,” said Farah, who was involved in some pushing and shoving with Choge as they battled for the inside lane with 400m to go.

“I didn’t want to give up the inside line so a couple of times I had to dig in and push him a little bit, make him aware I was there so he didn’t cut in.

“It was quite hard work but it’s all practice and the main thing was to win and start off 2012 with a win.”

Farah, whose winning time was three minutes 39.03 seconds, was the only one of Britain’s three world championship medallists to win on the day, with Hannah England pipped on the line by Germany’s Denise Krebs in the 1,500m. World bronze medallist Andy Turner was last in the 60m hurdles.

Britain’s Margaret Adeoye won the women’s 200m in a personal best of 23.68s.

There were also wins for Joe Thomas in the 800m, Jeanette Kwakye and Mark Lewis-Francis in the 60m and veteran Yamile Aldama in the triple jump.