British record she set <\/a>in Stockholm in June, when Audrey Werro triumphed. <\/p>\nIt was also way off the oldest world record on the track of one minute 53.28 seconds set by Czech athlete Jarmila Kratochvilova in 1983.<\/p>\n
However, that never looked like being a realistic goal in Oregon, with Hodgkinson emerging for the race with both knees heavily strapped – after a bad fall – and as a consequence, making a laboured start. <\/p>\n
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 little twinge”.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old has been competing over the shorter distance in a bid to improve her first-lap speed and challenge for the 800m world record this summer.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell lowered her personal best in the women’s mile with a time of four minutes 18.52 seconds but that time was only enough for eighth.<\/p>\n
Laura Muir faded in the closing stages to end up a distant 10th in a race won by American Nikki Hiltz, who timed her sprint to perfection to hold off Kenya’s Dorcus Ewoi and world record holder Faith Kipyegon.<\/p>\n
World champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the women’s 100m in 10.78 seconds with Sha’Carri Richardson second in 10.79 and Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith crossing in ninth.<\/p>\n
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 200m ahead of Olympic gold medallist Letsile Tebogo.<\/p>\n
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 in third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson was beaten for the second consecutive Diamond League race as she finished behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-674531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}