WOW! If you have followed the livestram, surely you will have noticed that the final event of the individual category of TYR Wodapalooza 2023 (WZA) was characterized by a single workout divided into two distinct parts: “Miami Meat Market” and “Dirty Isabel”.
There were 100 points up for grabs for each half of this round and, at the end of it, the two new WZA champions were crowned: Ricky Garard and Paige Powers!
Each of them has earned his first major competition title and placed as a contender for the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games season.
Here is a complete summary of these first 2 days of competition:
Index
Final Wod Part A— “Miami Meat Market”
3 rounds per time
- 25 Chest-to-Bar Pull-Ups
- 15 Dumbbell Bench Press — men: 36 kg | women: 23kg
- 30/21 Cal Echo Bike
Time Cap: 9 minutes
Results women
- Paige Powers — 05:31.09
- Dani Speegle — 05:57.91
- Andrea Nisler — 06:19.16
- Sara Sigmundsdottir — 06:23.77
- Sydney Michalyshen — 06:47.33
- Emma Tall — 07:14.28
- Brittany Weiss — 07:19.62
- Freya Moosbrugger — 07:23.00
- Cece Cronin — 07:23.75
- Paige Semenza — 07:35.57
Results men
- Roman Khrennikov — 06:02.74
- Ricky Garard — 06:21.02
- Patrick Vellner — 06:37.43
- Guilherme Malheiros — 06:46.53
- John Wood — 06:50.59
- Jack Rozema — 06:55.11
- Alexandre Caron — 06:55.50
- Nick Mathew — 07:04.32
- Philip Muscarella — 07:14.97
- Briant Guillaume — 07:24.13
Final wod part B— “Dirty Isabel”
For Time:
- 30 Bar-Facing Burpees
- 30 Unbroken* Power Snatches — men: 56kg | women: 38kg
* For each break, do 3 bar-facing burpees
Time Cap: 7 minutes
Results women:
- Dani Speegle—03:19.32
- Emma Cary — 03:27.58
- Paige Powers — 03:37.84
- Katelin Van Zyl — 03:49.58
- Elisa Fuliano — 04:03.47
- Olivia Kerstetter — 04:09.00
- Freya Moosbrugger — 04:15.00
- Emma Tall — 04:15.70
- Sara Sigmundsdottir — 04:18.91
- Sydney Michalyshen — 04:25.20
Results men
- Dallin Pepper — 03:07.21
- Henrik Haapalainen — 03:20.33
- Patrick Vellner — 03:37.63
- Cole Greashaber — 03:45.44
- Ricky Garard — 03:51.76
- Alexandre Caron — 03:54.35
- Brent Fikowski — 03:55.69
- Fabian Beneito Selles — 03:59.09
- Roman Khrennikov — 04:29.65
- Guiraldes Lake — 04:31.00
Highlights women
For the female category, we have seen many twists and turns in the standings. After two days of competition, where Emily Rolfe was pretty much in first place for the entire run, in event 5 ha immediately a accident to the calf during i DU with the rope.
This injury cost her the podium, leaving room for two other women who fought with all their might for the top step: Paige Powers and Dani Speegle.
Thanks to her consistency, the 19-year-old Powers took the victory in part A of the final wod, finishing just under 30 seconds ahead of Speegle, with a time of 5:31.09.
In this year's competition, we have witnessed the rise of many female athletes, including Emma Carry, who after an injury that forced her to withdraw last year, this time she's back stronger than ever.
Ours too Elisa Fuliano did not disappoint: he had a crazy race, finishing most of the WODs in the top 5. He lost some positions in the swim workout and in the ones where he uses his back a lot, but in general he did what he had to do! Closes this season in 7th place overall, really proving to everyone that he deserves to compete with these big names in our panorama!
Highlights men
Ricky Garard was 30 points ahead of Roman Khrennikov in the penultimate training session of the competition. The two have beenhead-to-head for most of the weekend, with Garard placing in the top five in all of the final's workouts.
During the first two rounds of “Miami Meat Market,” it was a three-way contest: Khrennikov, Garard, and US Army Warrior Fitness Team member Jack Rozema began to drift away from the pack.
The last round saw Khrennikov and Garard in the lead, who challenged each other with repetitions on the bench with dumbbells. Khrennikov finished the bench press first and then immediately ran to the eco bike, taking home the victory.
Garard, Khrennikov and Vellner took the podium after part A, so Part B “Dirty Isabel” was one pure battle for first place overall.
It was enough for Garard to finish in front of Khrennikov to secure his first, while Vellner had the possibility of finishing second on the podium, if everything went in his favour.
Garard placed fifth in “Dirty Isabel,” making him the only athlete in the field to place in the top five in every race. This performance was enough for him to take first place overall at Wodapalooza 2023.
Vellner finished third, but dropped 11 points to second overall, taken by Khrennikov. Dallin Pepper won the event with a time of 3:07.21, followed by Henrik Haapalainen with a time of 3:20.33.
It was truly a breath-taking ordeal!
TEAM ELITE division result
This year the Elite team division was really full of big names from our scene! With the possibility of competing both individually and in teams, many athletes have decided to participate in both!
In fact, Canadians Pat Vellner and Fikowski joined Jeff Adler to create the team Canadian PB&J, who won the top step of the podium!
Not only that: Roman Khrennikov finished second here too, with Team Gowod!
Ranking men
- Canadian PB&J — 634 points
- Team GOWOD — 605 points
- The Boyz — 604 points
- Good dudes — 543 points
- Team Panchik — 534 points
- King BK & Friends — 477 points
- Zeus & The Dogs — 444 points
- Le Boiz — 388 points
- The Three Wizards — 383 points
- Invictus Tiny Dancers — 372 points
For the girls however, we have seen an incredible head to head between Horvath and O'Brien, for the entire weekend.
In fact, both teams finished the competition with the same score, with the difference that Team BPN (Laura Horvath, Gabriela Migala and Jamie Simmonds) managed to win 2 events, while Team Dottir ft MBO (Katrin davidsdottir, Annie Thorisdottir and Mal O'Brien) only one.
Ranking women
- Team BPN — 691 points
- The Dottirs Ft. MOB — 691 points
- AKA Humble Killers — 678 points
- All American Girls — 642 points
- The Girls — 565 points
- GOWOD Girls — 529 points
- P10 Performance — 418 points
- Queens of the North — 416 points
- Invictus — 403 points
- Misfits with Lady Bits — 396 points
Results ITALIAN ATHLETES in the race
As you well know, there were also many of our athletes on the floor in Miami and the show was guaranteed! They finished the race weekend with these results:
Elite team category
- Team Med Girls made up of Elisa Fuliani, Antea Longo and Elena Carratalá – 14th overall
- Team Road To Asgard composed by Emanuele Biviano, Edoardo Talon, Andrea Ferrero – 24th overall
- Team Al, John & Jack composed by Pietro Anderloni, Tommaso Pieri, Stefano Migliorini – 26th overall
Category RX team
- Team Moods meets Cantieri composed by Francesca Marchiori, Lucia Borziani and Francesca Canobbio – 32th overall
- Italian Team composed by Michele la Mura, Giuseppe Castiglione and Gabriele Ruggirello – 22th overall
Category Team Intermediate Woman
QuadZilla Team made up of Martina di Biase, Elisabetta Marchesini and Laura di Biase – 23th overall
Both in 7th place overall in their respective categories
Category Masters
Men 35 -39: Emanuele Caloisi 17th overall and Alessandro Serrani 18th overall
Men 40-44: Joseph Girelli 15th overall
Men 45-49: Andrew di Salvatore 7th overall
Men 55-59: Antonio Boldrini 5th overall
Men 60+: Gerard Schiatti 4th overall
Women 40-44: Jade Nicolini 14th overall and Cristina F. Andries 16th overall
Category Adaptive Standing Neuro Women
Alice Honeycombs 4th overall
Team category 13-15 boys
Lorenzo Pitruzello 4th overall