Every year, thousands of athletes from all over the world compete in the various qualifying stages to earn a place in the final. Indeed, here we are…The 2023 CrossFit® Games are approaching and there are many expectations for new emerging talents and veterans who continue to dominate the scene.
We often talk about characteristics and of habits of successful athletes in our landscape and some even say that the people smaller in stature are at an advantage in bodyweight exercises.
With these assumptions, the American site Morning Chalk Up has done a wonderful analysis on the average age, weight and height of all finishers for the 2023 edition of the Nobull CrossFit® Games.
We report it here:
Index
Men
Age
- average: 27 years
- Youngest: 21 (Dallin Pepper, James Sprague, Jack Farlow)
- Oldest: 39 years old (Jason Smith)
- Athletes over 30: 14 out of 40 (35%)
Height
- average: 1,84 meters
- tallest: 1,90m (Brent Fikowski, Jaysson Hopper, James Sprague)
- Lowest: 1,63m (Colten Mertens)
Weight :
- Average: 94kg
- heaviest: 103 kg (Roman Khrennikov)
- lightest: 82 kg (Colten Mertens)
Other data
- 29 of the 40 men have already participated in the CrossFit® Games as individuals.
- Of the 29 men, 5 athletes are in their 2nd participation (Cole Greashaber, Dallin Pepper, Moritz Fiebig, Nick Mathew and Spencer Panchik).
- Cole Sager, Noah Ohlsen and Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson have featured in the last 10 seasons.
Women
Age
- average: 25 years
- youngest: 17 years old (Olivia Kerstetter)
- Oldest: 34 years (Emily Rolfe)
- Female athletes over 30: 12 out of 40 (30%)
Height
- average: 1 meter and 69
- the highest: 1 meter and 74 (Matilde Garnes)
- the lowest: 1 meters (Feerozeh Saghafi)
Weight :
- Average: 68kg
- the heaviest: 75 kilos (Emily de Rooy, Gabriela Migala)
- the lightest: 60 kilos (Elisa Fuliano, Shahed Budebs)
Other data
- 29 of the 40 women have already participated in the CrossFit® Games as individual athletes.
- Of these 29 women, 9 athletes are in their 2nd participation (Alex Gazan, Alexis Raptis, Christine Kolenbrander, Elisa Fuliano, Emma Lawson, Matilde Garnes, Paige Powers, Seher Kaya and Victoria Campos).
- Laura Horvath and Amanda Barnhart are the athletes with the most participations: 6 consecutive years. Katrin Davidsdottir holds the longest total, competing in 7 Games from 2015 to 2021.
- Annie Thorisdottir is the most experienced veteran on the floor, this being her XNUMXth individual qualification and XNUMXth overall (last year she competed in team).
Il however, the women's podium remains a great unknown factor, with the absence of haley adams, Tia Clair Toomey e Mallory O'Brien.
Who do you think will be crowned the fittest woman in the world?