AUSTIN, Texas — Missy Franklin, 15, of Regis Jesuit High School beat Olympian Katie Hoff in the 200- meter backstroke final in 55.48 at the Austin Grand Prix on Sunday. Franklin also won the 200 IM and the 200 backstroke earlier.
“I’m pretty exhausted,” said Franklin, who won five events over the weekend and finished the meet No. 1 overall with 28 points, the number Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps had combined.
Lochte beat Phelps in the 200- meter individual medley. Lochte finished in 1 minute, 59.26 seconds. Eric Shanteau edged Phelps to finish second in 2:01:13. Phelps was third.
Brent Hayden won the 100 freestyle in 49.91. Ricky Berens finished second, and Lochte was third. Phelps won Heat B of that race in 50.9 seconds.
The Grand Prix is a seven-meet series, and after the final event, the swimmer with the most total points from all seven meets earns $20,000.
Franklin said that if she were the winner, she’d turn down the check in order to stay eligible for college.
Goucher finishes second
PHOENIX — Josh Cox won the Arizona Rock ‘n’ Marathon, then kept on going to smash his American record for 50 kilometers by 3 1/2 minutes, missing the world mark by seven seconds. He completed the 31.2 miles in 2 hours, 43 minutes, 45 seconds after finishing the marathon in 2:17:32. Kara Goucher, the top-ranked U.S. women’s marathoner in 2009, placed second in the women’s half-marathon in 1:14:02.
Footnotes.
Magnus Moan of Norway won a World Cup nordic combined event in Seefeld, Austria.
Steamboat Springs’ Taylor Fletcher was 29th, Johnny Spillane finished 35 and Bryan Fletcher was 36. Todd Lodwick did not start.
• Manuel Machata led a 1-2 German finish in a World Cup four- man bobsled race, and Olympic champion Steven Holcomb of the U.S. took third in Igls, Austria.
• German Tatjana Huefner extended her lead in the luge World Cup standings with her fifth victory of the season in Oberhof, Germany. Julia Clukey was seventh and Ashley Walden 10th for the U.S.
• Andreas Kofler of Austria won his third ski jump World Cup victory of the season in Sapporo, Japan.
• Olympic champion Bjoern Ferry of Sweden won a biathlon World Cup pursuit race, and Tora Berger earned her second victory in the two days in the women’s event in Ruhpolding, Germany.
• Australian Matthew Goss won the criterium prelude to the Tour Down Under cycling race, and Lance Armstrong started his last professional event outside the United States by finishing 68th in Adelaide, Australia. Tyler Farrar, riding for Boulder’s Garmin-Cervelo, was the top American in 18th, six seconds behind the leaders.
• Auburn offensive line coach Jeff Grimes said he will stay with the Tigers. Grimes, a Texas native, had interviewed recently for a similar position with Texas.
• Kentucky senior running back Derrick Locke will take part in the Senior Bowl on Jan. 29 in Mobile, Ala. Also, Michigan State linebacker Greg Jones accepted an invitation along with Spartans defensive back Chris L. Rucker.
The Associated Press
