BALLARAT’S Collis Birmingham has bounced back from the disappointment of the London Olympic Games with a 3000 metres personal best in Stockholm.
Birmingham produced the PB in finishing eighth in a Diamond League meet.
He clocked 7:35.45.
This bettered the mark he set in Rieti, Italy, two years ago by more than three seconds.
Isiah Koech
(Kenya) won a personal best of 7:30.43.
Olympic 5000m bronze medalist Thomas Longosiwa (Kenya) was ninth.
Birmingham contested the 5000m in London, but failed to qualify for the final.

