Since his junior year at Missouri, Team USA wrestler J’den Cox has won an Olympic medal, an NCAA title, and now two world championship medals.
On Monday — for the first time in his career — he struck international gold.
“I feel weightless,” he said, according to a USA Wrestling news release, after his win in the 92-kilogram first-place match at the world championships in Budapest.
Cox defeated Belarus’ Ivan Yankouski 4-1 to take gold, further cementing himself as one of Mizzou’s most legendary athletes. Cox, who won three matches Sunday to reach the finals, trains at the U.