LOS ANGELES (AP) — Yulia Efimova of Russia won the 200-meter breaststroke at the Los Angeles Invitational on Sunday in her first competition since March, the same month she was provisionally suspended for a second career doping violation.
She won in 1 minute, 6.30 seconds, finishing 3.93 seconds ahead of the competition in the meet on the Southern California campus, where she had trained in recent years.
The 24-year-old swimmer, who has won four world titles and an Olympic bronze medal, was competing for the first time since a meet in Orlando, Florida, in early March. She swept the 100 (1:05.