Bernard Kiptum, of Kenya, won in 3:35.52.The opening main event, the women's 3,000m, was won in 8min 29.45sec by Maryam Jamal, one of a number of Ethiopians who has been lured by the superior finances of Bahrain. But hopefully the next two or three races this season will see me do it. I was a little undercooked at the World Championships, but I know I can run faster. I would love to get into [the 28 August Grand Prix in] Rieti - that could be where I do it." If McIlroy can break through that barrier, he will be the first Briton to have done so for 17 years.The 5,000m specialist Mo Farah offered British athletics another glimmer of hope for the future as he ran 3min 38.62sec to finish seventh in the Under-23 1500m race, a personal best by more than four seconds.

I had wanted to get another sub-45sec run, but the conditions made that almost impossible Maybe the lack of training is telling on me. I'm running Sheffield on Sunday, and I'm due to run at Brussels, but I may have to reassess things now."Earlier in the evening, James McIlroy ran a season's best of 1min 45.35sec - 0.05sec off his personal best - to finish sixth in the 800m B race behind winner Antonio Reina, of Spain, who clocked 1:44.32."I wanted to get under 1min 45sec, but I didn't quite make it," said the Northern Ireland athlete who reached the semi-finals at last week's World Championships "Maybe I went off too quickly. He found it tough going in what was a virtual rerun of the Helsinki final, finishing seventh in a rainswept race won by the world and Olympic champion, Jeremy Wariner, in 44.67sec.Running in lane seven - the position he was in when he broke 45 seconds for the first time last month in defeating the Olympic champion at Crystal Palace - the 23-year-old Welshman had hoped to run another 44-second race, but had to settle for a time of 45.45sec."I got to 150 metres, where I usually kick, and I had absolutely nothing," said Benjamin, who spent the best - or the worst - part of March in hospital after a back injection accidentally pierced his spinal column.He went on: "I am so tired. Arron, ever gracious, smiled even though she could not afford it, having lost her chance of golden riches with fourth place in 10.99.Tim Benjamin, who finished fifth in the 400m at the World Championships, was one of very few British athletes at a meeting which took place just two days before tomorrow's British Grand Prix in Sheffield. Thunder boomed and rumbled around the Swiss capital last night, to the point where, if you shut your eyes, you could almost imagine you were back at the previous week's rain-drenched World Championships in Helsinki. "If I'd gone fast today, I could have undone the work for Sunday."Earlier Ellen Whitaker rode AK Kanselier to a swift attacking round to defeat her uncle, Michael Whitaker, on Up to Date, by a cool 2.98sec.. The Briton was nevertheless delighted with his two clear rounds on Cloudy Night, who went well enough in her first Hickstead Derby here last year to encourage him to concentrate her preparation on a serious attempt at winning the £30,000 first prize on offer tomorrow."She's very hot and quite sharp, with masses of power," Stockdale said of the mare, who has been schooled over his own copies of Derby fences at home.

There are 450 individual calls in the programme, which had some of the assembled birders gasping in admiration yesterday. The e-guide was commissioned and is being distributed by WildSounds of Salthouse in Norfolk, who charge £79.95 for the card only, or £319 together with a palmtop PC. It is likely to be a must-have on many a birder's Christmas list.. By Genevieve Murphy at Hickstead Gregory Wathelet's talents must have been well known to a small group of supporters at the British Jumping Derby meeting here, since the 24-year-old Belgian was backed down from 25-1 to 8-1 before he rode Hugo Gesmeray to win yesterday's Osborne Refrigerators Derby Trial. He did not have to hurry to defeat Britain's Tim Stockdale, the first to go in the two-horse jump-off, who went for a deliberate clear round on the grey mare Fresh Direct Cloudy Night.Wathelet, winner of La Baule Derby in April, looked impressive when jumping clear to defeat Stockdale by 8.22sec. The Collins Bird eGuide is a mobile version of the company's best-selling guidebook to European birds, and works on a PDA, or palmtop PC All you do is insert the memory card. Then hold it in the palm of your hand: there's your bird in all its different coloured plumages, the notes on its appearance and habits, and the map of its distribution, but then - wait for it - you simultaneously hear its call.