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Margalis picks up her first individual event for Budapest after finishing in third in the 200 free on Wednesday. Cox will join her for her first World Championship appearance as she swam the fourth fastest time of 2017 with a 2:09.69.<\/p>\n<p>Cox held off Stanford&#8217;s <strong>Ella Eastin<\/strong> for second at 2:10.89. Eastin was second in the 400 IM on Thursday but was disqualified in the race for pushing off on her back on the last 50 of freestyle. <strong>Alex Walsh<\/strong> (2:12.36), <strong>Bethany Galat<\/strong> (2:12.66), <strong>Emma Barksdale<\/strong> (2:13.47), <strong>Brooke Forde<\/strong> (2:14.18) and <strong>Rachael Bradford-Feldman<\/strong> (2:14.54) also swam in the A-final<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_264496\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264496\" data-attachment-id=\"264496\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/melanie-margalis-and-madisyn-cox-post-sub-210s-in-200-im-final\/screen-shot-2017-07-01-at-6-48-55-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-01-at-6.48.55-PM-1-e1499054844735.png\" data-orig-size=\"787,585\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"200-IM-women\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot 2017-07-01 at 6.48.55 PM&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-01-at-6.48.55-PM-1-e1499054844735-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-01-at-6.48.55-PM-1-1024x640.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-264496\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-01-at-6.48.55-PM-1-e1499054844735-700x500.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-07-01 at 6.48.55 PM\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-264496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Margalis and Madisyn Cox went toe to toe over the back half of the 200 IM to post two times ranked in the top four this year. 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