Christmas came early for CrossFit® Games champion Tia-Clair Toomey and her husband and trainer Share Orr.
On Narale's Christmas Eve, Tia Clair Toomey posted on her Instagram page:
"There has been a slight turn of events for the 2023 season. From our growing family to yours, we are extremely excited to share: We are pregnant."
Later the same day, Shane Orr posted on his Instagram page that “2023 may look different, but this will be our best result so far. Merry Christmas from our growing family to yours”
Also, on Toomey and Orr's YouTube channel, the pair posted a video titled "I will not participate in the 2023 CrossFit® Games."
In the nearly 10-minute back-and-forth between Toomey and Orr, there's humor, sincerity and edginess, but amid all the excitement, Toomey says "my seventh title will be shelved for now."
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The racing story of Tia Clair Toomey
2023 will be the first time Toomey hasn't competed at the CrossFit® Games since 2015. After finishing runner-up at the Games in 2015 and 2016, in 2017 she rocked it and won her first CrossFit® Games two points ahead of fellow Aussie Kara Saunders.
Toomey maintained this momentum and retained her title as Queen Undisputed, winning more titles than any other CrossFitter in the world.
She owns one more title than five-time Fittest Man on Earth® and former training partner Mat Fraser, and four more than her closest female competitors: Annie Thorisdottir and Katrin Davíðsdóttir each with two titles at the CrossFit® Games.
What will happen to the women's individual division next season
With Toomey's exit from the elite women's individual field in 2023, the top podium spot will be vacant for the first time in over half a decade.
Several women will try to replace Toomey as the Fittest Woman on Earth®. In the lead are the athletes who have climbed the 2022 Games podium: the eighteen year old Mallory O'Brien, who placed second in her second individual season, and the XNUMX-year-old Hungarian Laura Horvath, who was third and who in her career achieved two second places to Toomey at the 2018 and 2021 Games.
While there was uncertainty following the final event of the 2022 Games, followed by the confirmation that Toomey would compete for a seventh consecutive title, there is now no doubt that a new Fittest Woman on Earth® will be crowned in 2023.