{"id":340140,"date":"2018-11-30T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=340140"},"modified":"2018-12-03T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:46:11","slug":"madisyn-cox-pulls-away-on-breast-for-400-im-winter-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/madisyn-cox-pulls-away-on-breast-for-400-im-winter-national-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Madisyn Cox Pulls Away on Breast for 400 IM Winter National Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madisyn Cox<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

Cox now ranks as the fifth-fastest American this year. She won the race by almost three seconds as Sarasota Y’s\u00a0Emma Wyant\u00a0<\/strong>touched out\u00a0Athens Bulldogs’\u00a0Hali Flickinger\u00a0<\/strong>for second, 4:41.20 to 4:41.24. Flickinger\u00a0opened up a big lead after her butterfly and backstroke legs, but she quickly faded on the breaststroke as Cox took over.<\/p>\n

NC State’s\u00a0Makayla Sargent\u00a0<\/strong>took fourth in 4:45.79, followed by HPC-Victoria’s\u00a0Emily Overholt\u00a0<\/strong>(4:45.93). Also in the final were\u00a0Meg Bailey\u00a0<\/strong>(4:48.00), Sandpipers’\u00a0Reese Hazan\u00a0<\/strong>(4:50.72) and Greenwich WYCA’s\u00a0Meghan Lynch<\/strong> (4:52.38).<\/p>\n