British Athletics Grand Prix, Birmingham, GBR, 16 February 2013, from IAAF.org, note by Larry Eder

The British Athletics Grand Prix has been one of the fixtures for UKA series for many years. I had attended it for seven straight years, until this year. Held in the NAI Stadium in Birmingham, it was one of the examples of the way to make an indoor track meet real sports entertainment. BBC covered the meet live and former meet director Ian Stewart insured that there was some truly compelling events in the schedule.

Mo Farah,

photo by PhotoRun.net

Mike Rodgers won the 60 meter in 6.53 over a tough field. Murielle Ahoure won the women’s 60m in a screaming 6.99 with Shelly Ann Frasier Price in second, Barbara Poore in third and

Carmelita Jeter in fourth.

Mo Farah kept the home crowd happy with his victory over 3000 meters in 7:42.00. Next weekend, he runs a half marathon in New Orleans for the RNR series.

Holly Bleasdale kept her winning ways in the pole vault, as did Sharah Proctor in the long jump.

More details to come, entire results posted below….

Birmingham, GBR, 16/02/2013

Men’ results

60 Metres – Men Final

1 Rodgers , Mike USA 6.53

2 Carter , Nesta JAM 6.56

3 Adams , Antoine SKN 6.60

4 Collins , Kim SKN 6.61

5 Cackett , Greg GBR 6.66

6 Jakubczyk , Lucas GER 6.71

7 Aikines-Aryeetey , Harry GBR 6.76

Pierre , Rion GBR DNS

60 Metres – Men Heats Race 1

1 Collins , Kim SKN 6.62

2 Pierre , Rion GBR 6.63

3 Jakubczyk , Lucas GER 6.72

4 Rogers , Jason SKN 6.72

5 Chambers , Dwain GBR 6.81

6 Clarke , Lerone JAM 7.13

Safo-Antwi , Sean GBR DQ

Graham , Robert GBR DQ

60 Metres – Men Heats Race 2

1 Rodgers , Mike USA 6.61

2 Adams , Antoine SKN 6.67

3 Carter , Nesta JAM 6.67

4 Cackett , Greg GBR 6.69

5 Aikines-Aryeetey , Harry GBR 6.71

6 Ujah , Chijindu GBR 6.75

7 LeBlanc , Michael CAN 6.80

8 Wright , Andre GBR 6.80

400 Metres – Men

1 Levine , Nigel GBR 46.34

2 Gordon , Lalonde TRI 46.73

3 Strachan , Richard GBR 46.78

4 Yousif , Rabah SUD 46.94

5 Smith , Calvin USA 47.11

6 Santos , Luguelenn DOM 47.14

800 Metres – Men

1 Rimmer , Michael GBR 1:46.55

2 Kaki , Abubaker SUD 1:46.57

3 Mohammed , Mukhtar GBR 1:46.58

4 Osagie , Andrew GBR 1:46.97

5 Learmonth , Guy GBR 1:47.41

6 Thomas , Joe GBR 1:47.79

7 Bube , Andreas DEN 1:47.82

8 Repcek , Jozef SVK 1:47.95

Scherer , Matthew USA DNF

1500 Metres – Men

1 Iguider , Abdalaati MAR 3:37.45

2 Birgen , Bethwell KEN 3:37.57

3 Lewandowski , Marcin POL 3:38.34

4 Dirirsa , Teshome ETH 3:38.71

5 Tahri , Bouabdellah FRA 3:38.73

6 Vojta , Andreas AUT 3:39.15

7 Gebremedhin , Mekonnen ETH 3:39.30

8 Warburton , Chris GBR 3:41.20

9 Grice , Charlie GBR 3:41.54

10 Huffer , Craig AUS 3:43.25

11 McLaughlin , Matt GBR 3:49.74

Kipkoech , Nicholas Kiplangat KEN DNF

3000 Metres – Men

1 Farah , Mohamed GBR 7:42.00

2 Carvalho , Florian FRA 7:45.77

3 Emanuel , Lee GBR 7:51.46

4 Humphries , Thomas GBR 7:54.79

5 Poore , Andrew USA 7:54.99

6 Wilkinson , James GBR 7:57.90

7 Scullion , Stephen IRL 7:58.11

8 Mellor , Jonathan GBR 8:00.77

9 Hurst , Philip GBR 8:01.61

10 Durand , Yohan FRA 8:02.83

11 Davies , Stephen GBR 8:11.41

Bishop , David GBR DNF

60 Metres Hurdles – Men Heats Race 1

1 Ortega , Orlando CUB 7.54

2 Shubenkov , Sergey RUS 7.59

3 Xie , Wenjun CHN 7.61

4 Frankis , Gianni GBR 7.75

5 Wilson , Ryan USA 7.79

6 Clarke , Lawrence GBR 7.83

7 Kiss , Daniel HUN 7.99

Ji , Wei CHN DNF

60 Metres Hurdles – Men Heats Race 2

1 Osaghae , Omo USA 7.58

2 Scott , Allan GBR 7.75

3 Nugent , Barrett USA 7.76

4 O’Farrill , Yordan L. CUB 7.76

5 Akins , Tyrone USA 7.79

6 Kelk , Ben GBR 8.05

7 Craddock , Kevin USA 8.15

Schwarzer , Helge GER DQ

60 Metres Hurdles – Men Final

1 Osaghae , Omo USA 7.51

2 Shubenkov , Sergey RUS 7.58

3 Xie , Wenjun CHN 7.60

4 Ortega , Orlando CUB 7.65

5 Frankis , Gianni GBR 7.70

6 Scott , Allan GBR 7.74

7 O’Farrill , Yordan L. CUB 7.75

8 Nugent , Barrett USA 7.76

High Jump – Men

1 Dmitrik , Aleksey RUS 2.33

2 Grabarz , Robert GBR 2.29

3 Ukhov , Ivan RUS 2.29

4 Thomas , Donald BAH 2.29

5 Wang , Yu CHN 2.25

6 Oni , Samson GBR 2.20

7 Horvik , Peter SVK 2.15

8 Parsons , Tom GBR 2.15

8 Smith , Allan GBR 2.15

Women’ results

60 Metres – Women Final

1 Ahoure , Murielle CIV 6.99

2 Fraser-Pryce , Shelly-Ann JAM 7.09

3 Pierre , Barbara USA 7.09

4 Jeter , Carmelita USA 7.18

5 Lalova , Ivet &n
bsp; BUL 7.21

6 Brooks , Sheri-Ann JAM 7.21

6 Philip , Asha GBR 7.21

8 Ryemyen , Mariya UKR 7.21

60 Metres – Women Heats Race 2

1 Fraser-Pryce , Shelly-Ann JAM 7.19

2 Lalova , Ivet BUL 7.24

3 Philip , Asha GBR 7.27

4 Ryemyen , Mariya UKR 7.28

5 Okparaebo , Ezinne NOR 7.31

6 Mahan , Shayla USA 7.35

Hastings , Natasha USA DQ

Jones , Hayley GBR DNS

60 Metres – Women Heats Race 1

1 Ahoure , Murielle CIV 7.03

2 Pierre , Barbara USA 7.17

3 Brooks , Sheri-Ann JAM 7.19

4 Jeter , Carmelita USA 7.24

5 Douglas , Montell GBR 7.33

6 Onuora , Anyika GBR 7.42

7 White , Mandy USA 7.42

Lewis , Annabelle GBR DNS

400 Metres – Women

1 Hastings , Natasha USA 50.88

2 Shakes-Drayton , Perri GBR 51.37

3 Child , Eilidh GBR 51.50

4 Floyd , Ebony USA 52.25

5 Zadorina , Ksenia RUS 52.58

6 Cox , Shana GBR 53.43

800 Metres – Women

1 Poistogova , Ekaterina RUS 2:02.25

2 Meadows , Jennifer GBR 2:02.86

3 Sharp , Lynsey GBR 2:03.07

4 Chebet , Winny KEN 2:03.74

5 Leonard , Alison GBR 2:03.91

6 Hunt , Dawn GBR 2:05.65

7 Hartmann , Jana GER 2:06.07

1500 Metres – Women

1 Dibaba , Genzebe ETH 4:00.83

2 Hilali , Siham MAR 4:07.99

3 Sujew , Elina GER 4:10.96

4 Sujew , Diana GER 4:11.26

5 Clement Moser , Treniere USA 4:14.05

6 England , Hannah GBR 4:14.70

7 Tarplee , Claire IRL 4:15.57

8 Clarke , Rosie GBR 4:16.53

9 Courtney , Melissa GBR 4:20.79

10 Bogale , Tizita ETH 4:27.94

Lavric , Elena Mirela ROU DNF

3000 Metres – Women

1 Clitheroe , Helen GBR 8:50.16

2 Howarth , Lauren GBR 8:52.00

3 Bobocel , Ancuta ROU 8:52.86

4 McColgan , Eilish GBR 8:53.17

5 Reilly , Chelsea USA 8:53.89

6 Jelizarova , Polina LAT 8:58.11

7 Stewart , Emily GBR 8:59.38

8 Judd , Jessica GBR 9:00.06

9 Chepkwemoi , Nancy KEN
9:02.28

10 Machado , Erclia POR 9:05.87

Khaleeva , Kristina RUS DNF

60 Metres Hurdles – Women

1 Carruthers , Danielle USA 8.11

2 Smith , Loreal USA 8.12

3 Porter , Tiffany GBR 8.12

4 Manning , Christina USA 8.14

5 Schrott , Beate AUT 8.14

6 O’Rourke , Derval IRL 8.15

7 Lindenmayer , Sabrina GER 8.54

8 Johnson-Thompson , Katarina GBR 8.60

Pole Vault – Women

1 Bleasdale , Holly GBR 4.70

2 Silva , Yarisley CUB 4.70

3 Byres , Katie GBR 4.35

4 Peake , Sally GBR 4.20

5 Bryan , Lucy GBR 4.20

5 Viuf , Katy USA 4.20

7 Gergel , Melissa USA 4.00

Long Jump – Women

1 Proctor , Shara GBR 6.78

2 Deiac , Cornelia ROU 6.54

3 Griva , Lauma LAT 6.41

4 Jimoh , Funmi USA 6.31

5 Blaize , Dominique GBR 6.24

6 Bauschke , Melanie GER 6.23

7 Rotaru , Alina ROU 6.15

8 Martins , Eliane BRA 6.11

Triple Jump – Women

1 Saladuha , Olha UKR 14.61

2 Smith , Trecia JAM 14.20

3 Bujin , Cristina ROU 13.92

4 Aldama , Yamila GBR 13.91

5 Valyukevich , Victoria RUS 13.17

6 Gutzmode , Sineade GBR 12.94

7 Barrett , Angela GBR 12.78

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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