Courtesy of MIssouri Sports Information
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Three time Mid-American Conference Champion & Team USA 86-kg freestyle wrestler J'den Cox (Missouri) earned an Olympic bronze medal with a thrilling win over Cuba's Reineris Salas Perez at Carioca Arena 2 on Saturday afternoon.
With the medal, Cox becomes the seventh University of Missouri athlete to win a medal at the Olympics – and the first since 2008 – joining Brutus Hamilton, Jackson Scholz, Dan Pippin, Dick Cochran, Natasha Kaiser (Brown) and Christian Cantwell in the exclusive club. It wrapped up an amazing day of competition in which Cox didn't allow a single takedown.