Madisyn Cox, competing this weekend at Nationals for the first time since a six-month substance-related suspension and clearing her name of any wrongdoing, won her second title of the weekend in the 400 IM. Cox trailed early in the race but ended up pulling away to win in 4:38.52. That clipped her previous lifetime-best time of 4:38.85 that she had set back in 2016.
Cox now ranks as the fifth-fastest American this year. She won the race by almost three seconds as Sarasota Y’s Emma Wyant touched out Athens Bulldogs’ Hali Flickinger for second, 4:41.20 to 4:41.24. Flickinger opened up a big lead after her butterfly and backstroke legs, but she quickly faded on the breaststroke as Cox took over.
NC State’s Makayla Sargent took fourth in 4:45.79, followed by HPC-Victoria’s Emily Overholt (4:45.93). Also in the final were Meg Bailey (4:48.00), Sandpipers’ Reese Hazan (4:50.72) and Greenwich WYCA’s Meghan Lynch (4:52.38).
Congratulations