African athletes dominated the middle-distance races of the traditional Birmingham meeting in England. Specially thanks to the great success of Mekonnen on the 1500 m. The Ethiopian  performed greatly by winning in 3'34 "70 before the Kenyan Birgen (3'34" 88).   Note the performances of Meseret Defar on 3000 m flat and the snatched win of the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge in the unusual event of two miles before the Anglo-Somalian  Mo Farah, world champion in the 5,000m  in 2011, and the formidable specialist of  the long middle distance the Ugandan Mose Kipsorio  

Results

Men
400 m: 1.Nigel Levine (Ang), 45 "71. 3. Rabah Yousif (Soud), 46 "85.
1500 m: 1.Nixon Cheseba (Ken), 3'34 "70. 2. Bethwel Birgen (Ken), 3'34 "88. 3. Gebremedhin Mekonnen (Eth), 3'34 "89. 6, Augustine Choge (Ken), 3'37 "61.
2 Miles: 1.Eliud Kipchoge (Ken), 8'07 "39. 3. Moses Kipsorio (Oug), 8'08 "16.

Ladies
60 m: 1.Tania Madison (Eu), 7 "07. 6. Gloria Asumnu (Nga), 7 "33
1500 m: 1.Genzebe Dibaba (Eth), 4'01 "33.
3000 m: 1.Meseret Defar (ETH), 8 '31 "56. 2. Herlen Obirti (Ken), 8'35 "35. 3. Gelete Burka (Eth), 8'36 "59. 4. Meselech Melkamu (Eth), 8 '47"56.