Josh Cox named USATF Athlete of the Week

Cox won the marathon portion of the competition in 2 hours 17 minutes 32 seconds, which gave him a winning margin of 1:08 over runner-up Solomon Kandie of Kenya.

Cox kept running after crossing the finish line, and didn’t stop until he completed 50 km in 2:43:45, which easily bettered his previous American record of 2:47:17 set in 2009 at the same event. Cox’s blistering performance, which bettered his previous AR by 3:32, fell short of the 50 km world record by a mere seven seconds.

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