Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson was overwhelmed for the second consecutive Diamond League race as she completed behind Lilian Odira in Eugene.
The Kenyan athlete, who’s the reigning world champion over the gap, surged previous the Briton within the dwelling straight to win in a time of 1 minute and 56.19 seconds.
It was a season’s greatest efficiency from Odira, with Hodgkinson crossing the road second in a single minute and 56.73 seconds, nicely in need of the British report she set in Stockholm in June, when Audrey Werro triumphed.
It was additionally method off the oldest world report on the observe of 1 minute 53.28 seconds set by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983.
Nevertheless, that by no means appeared like being a sensible aim in Oregon, with Hodgkinson rising for the race with each knees closely strapped – after a foul fall – and as a consequence, making a laboured begin.
It has been a combined season for Hodgkinson, who needed to pull out of the 400m last on the UK Athletics Championships final month after feeling “slightly twinge”.
The 24-year-old has been competing over the shorter distance in a bid to enhance her first-lap pace and problem for the 800m world report this summer season.
In the meantime, Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell lowered her private greatest within the girls’s mile with a time of 4 minutes 18.52 seconds however that point was solely sufficient for eighth.
Laura Muir pale within the closing phases to finish up a distant tenth in a race received by American Nikki Hiltz, who timed her dash to perfection to carry off Kenya’s Dorcus Ewoi and world report holder Religion Kipyegon.
World champion Melissa Jefferson-Wood received the ladies’s 100m in 10.78 seconds with Sha’Carri Richardson second in 10.79 and Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith crossing in ninth.
Teenage American sprinter Tate Taylor, 19, marked his Diamond League debut with a private better of 19.75 seconds as he received the boys’s 200m forward of Olympic gold medallist Letsile Tebogo.
Within the males’s 100m, Nigeria’s Kayinsola Ajayi beat world champion Indirect Seville with a time of 9.84 seconds, with American Christian Coleman in third.
