in last weekend (28/30 May) we had two events of the Semi-Finals of the Nobull CrossFit® Games 2021: The Mid-Atlantic CrossFit® Challenge in the United States and the Torian Pro in Australia.
Both competitions were in presence and they also had the public! A rare thing after this long pandemic period. As the vaccination campaign progressed, it was possible to create an ideal environment for competitions, seeing both athletes and judges without a mask!
The weekend ended in an exceptional way, so we already have the name of the first 8 women, 8 men and 8 teams who will participate in the world's largest CrossFit® event.
I first 5 names come from United States and the other three from Australia; the workouts were really challenging and made all the athletes sweat. Some athletes are already famous and have still shone these days, like Scott Panchick, Justin Medeiros, Travis Mayer, Ben Smith, Jay Crouch and Luke de Junge.
Instead for women we have seen great athletes like Kara Saunders, Lara Clifton, Ellie Turner, Haley Adams and Brooke Wells.
It should be noted that this edition of the Mid-Atlantic was one of the most exciting ever: there was one beautiful dispute between Tia Claire Toomey and Amanda Barnhart, who competed side by side in the third round of clean & jerk and burpees.
Incredibly, the American beat the 4-time Games champion in the last thousandths of a second, closing the race at first place with 2:47:51, while Tia closed with 2:47:94.
for teams the big highlight was the presence of Rich Froning with his Mayhem Freedom team, which still gave a show inside the arena.
Awesome semifinals, guys!
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Mid-Atlantic CrossFit® Challenge (MACC) Semi-Final Results
With the end of the qualifying event, we already have the top 5 athletes in each category. Interestingly, MACC was the event that brought some of the biggest names into the current CrossFit® scene.
For women, we had theinvincible Tia Claire Toomey who beat them all, taking home the victory. Then they arrive Harley Adams, Brooke Wells, Amanda Barnhart and Jessica Griffith.
For men we have had Jayson Hopper first, Scott Panchick second, Justin Medeiros third, after Travis Mayer and Zach Watts.
for teams we have like first place Rich Froning with his Mayhem Freedom team, followed by the Lone Star CrossFit® team, CrossFit® Westchase, Training Think Tank and the On Track team which closes the 5 teams that receive the invitation to the Games.
The CrossFit® Reigned Wilmington team came close to the last available spot to finish the last race in first place. However, the inconsistency of the results did not allow them to get on the podium, remaining with the 6th place.
Results of the Torian Pro Semifinals
In the semifinal Torian Pro, alone 3 athletes of each category and team move on to the next stage.
The highlight was the sixth challenge where the WOD provided Skyair, 15 burpees box jump over and the most complicated part: pull a weight from one side of the arena to the other with a rope, all with a time limit of 3 minutes. Those who couldn't make it came back and repeated the whole circuit.
The race proved to be one of the most difficult for women, who had a high number of athletes who did not finish the wod.a
On the podium we saw the long-awaited Kara Saunders, followed by Laura Clinton and last place at the Games went to Ellie Turner.
While for the men we have the Australian Royce Dunne with first place, Jay Crouch with second and Bayden Brown with the last place in Oceania in the Games category.
As for the teams, first place goes to 64 Army Gold teams, second to Urban and third to Awaside.
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