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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.
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.
During the 2022 Games she briefly held the first-place position, making her the youngest to ever lead the games as an individual. She placed 6th overall and won the "Rookie of the Year" award for her performance. [8] At the 2023 CrossFit Games Lawson had her first career win in an individual event at the Games by winning the first event "Ride". [9]
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 2023 CrossFit Games is the 17th edition of the premier competition in the sport of CrossFit held from August 1 to August 6, 2023, in Madison, Wisconsin. [1] The winners were Laura Horvath for the women's competition, Jeffrey Adler for the men's, and CrossFit Invictus for the team's.
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.
CrossFit is a branded fitness regimen that involves constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity. [1] The method was developed by Greg Glassman, [2] who founded CrossFit with Lauren Jenai in 2000, [3] [4] [5] with CrossFit its registered trademark. [6]
Adler began to train at CrossFit in 2015, and had no previous training in competitive sports. [3] His first world championship bid came at the 2019 CrossFit Games. [4] He was a finalist at the 2020 CrossFit Games, [5] where he placed fifth. [6] He was placed third at the Rogue Invitational in 2021, and again in 2022.