Tia-Clair Toomey and Patrick Vellner lead Rogue Invitational after day one
- Defending champion Toomey holds top spot for the women, while Vellner sits atop the men’s competition
Tia-Clair Toomey and Patrick Vellner are leading the Rogue Invitational after day one of two. Toomey won the competition last year, and is a favourite to repeat the victory this year.
All the athletes were sent Rogue equipment and are competing online because of travel and social distancing rules. Toomey sits in first above Jamie Simmonds in second and Sara Sigmundsdottir in third.
Toomey opened the Rogue invitational in impressive fashion, easily winning event one, which was a gruelling series of exercises for time, including thrusters and burpee pull-ups. Simmonds came second and Australian Kara Saunders finished in third.
Event two – a last-man-standing power snatch workout – did not go as well for Toomey and she finished 13th. Briton Samantha Briggs won, followed by Sigmundsdottir and American Brooke Wells in third.
In the third and final event of the day – skipping, toe-to-bars and calorie bikes – Toomey took second place behind Haley Adams. Simmonds came third.