Kiley Hodgkinson beat Eugene Odira to finish second

Olympic 800m champion Keeley Hodgkinson lost her second consecutive Diamond League race as she trailed Lillian Odira in Eugene.

The Kenyan athlete, who is the world champion at the distance, went straight ahead of Britain to win in one minute 56.19 seconds.

It was a season’s best performance from Odira, as Hodgkinson crossed the line in one minute and 56.73 seconds, just short. He set a British record In Stockholm in June, when Audrey Wero won.

It was also away from the track’s oldest world record of one minute 53.28 seconds, set by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983.

However, it never looked like a realistic goal for Oregon, with Hodgkinson appearing for the race with both knees heavily bandaged – after a bad fall – and, as a result, got off to a laborious start.

It has been a mixed season for Hodgkinson, who had to pull out of the 400m final at the UK Athletics Championships last month after feeling a “bit of a jolt”.

The 24-year-old is competing in the short distance this summer to improve his first lap speed and challenge for the 800m world record.

Meanwhile, Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell lowered her personal best to four minutes 18.52 seconds in the women’s mile, but that time was good enough to finish eighth.

Laura Muir faded in the closing stages to finish a distant tenth in a race won by American Nikki Hiltz, who timed her sprint to perfection to hold off Kenya’s Dorcas Ewoi and world record holder Faith Kipyegon.

World champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the women’s 100m in 10.78s with Sha’kari Richardson in 10.79s and Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith ninth.

Teenage American sprinter Tate Taylor, 19, marked his Diamond League debut with a personal best of 19.75 seconds as he won the men’s 200 meters from Olympic gold medalist Letsile Tebogo.

In the men’s 100m, Nigeria’s Kayinsola Ajayi beat world champion Oblique Seville with a time of 9.84 seconds, with American Christian Coleman third.