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The 2021 CrossFit Games was the 15th edition of the CrossFit Games held from July 27 to August 1, 2021. [1] Justin Medeiros won the men's competition, Tia-Clair Toomey the women's, and CrossFit Mayhem the team's.
The CrossFit Games is an annual athletic competition owned and operated by CrossFit, LLC. [1] Athletes compete in a series of events at the Games, which may be various standard CrossFit workouts consisting of metabolic conditioning exercises, weightlifting, and gymnastics movements, as well as a range of activities from other sports such as swimming, road cycling and strongman.
Participants in CrossFit Open performing a form of burpee. The CrossFit Games, created and directed by Dave Castro until 2021, have been held every summer since 2007. Athletes at the Games compete in workouts they learn about only hours beforehand, sometimes including surprise elements that are not part of the typical CrossFit regimen.
At the 2022 CrossFit Games, Medeiros faced strong challenges from Ricky Garard, who returned after a 4-year ban for drug use, and Roman Khrennikov, who competed in person for the first time despite qualifying for the Games 4 previous times. Garard led the first two days of competition, but faltered in some events and lost the lead to Medeiros.
The 2022 CrossFit Games is the 16th iteration of the annual competition in the sport of CrossFit held from August 3 to August 7, 2022, in Madison, Wisconsin. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Both Justin Medeiros and Tia-Clair Toomey repeated their 2021 win in their respective men's and women's competitions, [ 3 ] while CrossFit Mayhem Freedom won the team competition.
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The Rogue Invitational was announced in November 2018 as a sanctioned CrossFit event for the 2019 CrossFit Games. [2] For the first Invitational, the top 10 male and top 10 female athletes from the 2018 CrossFit Games were given an invitation, [3] as well as online qualifiers and other select top athletes making a total of 20 men, 20 women and 10 teams invited. [4]
Mallory O'Brien is a CrossFit athlete. In 2022, at the age of 18, she came in second at the 2022 CrossFit Games, becoming the youngest ever person to podium.Earlier in the year, she was the youngest ever person to win the Crossfit Open, and in 2021 was named CrossFit's Rookie of the Year.