The first day of the CrossFit Games is over. Here's what happened
The 2022 CrossFit Games are just getting started and already there's drama. The schedule originally had four events for individual athletes, but only three took place on Day One due to rain.
Event 1
The first event of the competition included 75 toes-to-bar to start, followed by a five-mile road/off-road bike ride, then 75 chest-to-bar pull-ups and another five-mile ride.
Toomey was the favourite going into this event, but it wasn't easy for her to win. American Haley Adams made history as well with a first career CrossFit Games victory event!
According to CrossFit, Spencer Panchik, Lazar Dukic, Danielle Brandon, and Elena Carratala Sanahuja missed laps. Their slowest lap time was added to their recorded time as a way to recalculate their final scores.
Seungyeon Choi logged an extra lap. CrossFit review the footage and recorded the accurate time based on the work she was meant to put in.
Individual Women’s Results
- Haley Adams — 38:23.74
- Tia-Clair Toomey — 38:26.64
- Emma Lawson — 38.30.48
- Alexis Raptis — 39.01.04
- Laura Horvath — 39.01.25
- Mal O’Brien — 39.06.04
- Matilde Garnes — 39.07.12
- Danielle Brandon — 39.38.29
- Lucy Campbell — 39.43.56
- Kara Saunders — 39.59.64
Individual Men’s Results
- Ricky Garard — 36:47.61
- Jonne Koski — 36:49.34
- Justin Medeiros — 36:53.65
- Jeffrey Adler — 37:06.17
- Spencer Panchik — 37:17.00
- Roman Khrennikov — 37:18.52
- Björgvin Karl Gudmundsson — 37:24.35
- Willy Georges — 37:25.29
- Moritz Fiebig — 37:29.71
- Lazar Đukić — 37:48.00
Event 3
The second event was cancelled due poor weather conditions which resulted into moving it over Thursday Aug 4 and skipped right to Event Three.
"Skill Speed Medley" introduced a brand-new movement to the competition stage: The double under crossover. This was an unexpected move which caught everyone off guard and unprepared for its execution on stage! Not a single woman in the final five was able to complete the 24 double-under crossovers, and the final five men struggled to string them together — only three completed the full set.
Gui Malheiros — Photo by flsportsguy photography
The biggest shocker at this year's Games event was that Tia-Clair Toomey didn't make it past the first round, finishing her in 23rd place. This is by far one of worst performances since 2015 and she now sits ninth overall.
Individual Women
- Danielle Brandon
- Rebecca Fuselier
- Emma Lawson
- Elisa Fuliano
- Mal O’Brien
- Jacqueline Dahlstrøm
- Arielle Loewen
- Thuridur Erla Helgadottir
- Haley Adams
- Kristi Eramo O’Connell
Individual Men
- Nick Mathew
- Guilherme Malheiros
- Justin Medeiros
- Pat Vellner
- Ricky Garard
- Will Moorad
- Jonne Koski
- Lazar Dukic
- Roman Khrennikov
- Austin Spencer
Event 4
This is a remix of Elizabeth — Elizabeth Elevated — swapped thrusters for squat cleans and ring dips for parallel dips with parallel bar traverses.
During each round the dips must be split into 3 unbroken sets, with each set beginning with a traverse of the parallel bars. Meaning, the first round will be a traverse then 7 dips, a second traverse then 7 dips, and a third traverse then 7 dips, for a total of 21 reps. The round of 15 will be broken into 3 sets of 5 dips, while the rounds of 9 will be broken into 3 sets of 3 dips.
Photo By William Johnson (@barbellstories on Instagram)
Individual Women
- Arielle Loewen — 10:17.06
- Kara Saunders — 10:31.72
- Mal O’Brien — 10:33.77
- Kristi Eramo O’Connell — 10:37.31
- Emma McQuaid — 10:42.96
- Danielle Brandon — 10:48.71
- Dani Speegle — 11:03.74
- Baylee Rayl — 11:14.72
- Tia-Clair Toomey — 11:22.64
- Christine Kolenbrander — 11:37.19
Individual Men
- Pat Vellner — 8:42.16
- Björgvin Karl Gudmundsson — 9:20.11
- Colten Mertens — 9:24.49
- Noah Ohlsen — 9:39.12
- Uldis Upenieks — 9:46.81
- Cole Greashaber — 9:48.01
- Ricky Garard — 9:49.82
- Lazar Đukić — 9:57.34
- Nick Mathew — 9:58.84
- Enrico Zenoni — Cap + two
So, where do competitors stand? Here are the women’s and men’s leaderboards, as of right now:
What are the athletes fighting for?
The 2022 CrossFit Games have a total prize pool of $2,845,000. This includes new payouts to the podium divisions in five Adaptive event types: Individual ($310K), First Place Team(100k).
Make sure to tune in to see the best athletes from all over compete for the title of fittest on earth!
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