Dubai CrossFit Championship: Sara Sigmundsdottir wins by dominating competition in UAE
- The Icelandic star had a smile on her face throughout the competition as she took first place in multiple events
The last two CrossFit Games were not kind to one of the sport’s female icons.
Sara Sigmundsdottir finished 19th at the 2019 CrossFit Games and 37th the year before that due to an injury. This was a massive sidestep from the narrative of the Icelandic star who boasts 1.6 million Instagram followers and multiple large scale endorsement deals. In 2017 she came fourth and she came third in both 2016 and 2015.
However, it appears the old Sigmundsdottir is back with a vengeance. After finishing first in the 2020 CrossFit Open, the third time she has done that since 2017, she came out on fire to start the Sanctional season by winning the CrossFit Filthy 150 in Dublin, Ireland, in late November.
Now she can add the Dubai CrossFit Championship to her win column, which also makes her the athlete with the most CrossFit Sanctional wins ever with three. Last year in Dubai Sigmundsdottir came in third, and this year she got thrown a couple of curve balls, both of which turned out in her favour.
“It was different this year we didn’t get any information before about the competition,” said the 27-year-old. Fellow countrywoman Katrin Davidsdottir, who was originally expected to compete, also pulled out the morning of the first day before the swim and sandbag event on the shores of the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah due to a back injury.
Sigmundsdottir’s win in Ireland silenced a number of critics who were saying she might be having issues with either her mental or physical fortitude when it came to being a top ranked CrossFit athlete and ambassador for the sport. Sigmundsdottir said the only thing that has really bothered her lately is a touch of the flu in transit between Europe and the United Arab Emirates.