CrossFit Games 2020 round-up: who qualifies for the final in California as Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey win online competition?
- The first leg of the CrossFit Games has finished and the top five men and top five women have secured their places in the final
Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey won the first leg of the CrossFit Games 2020 to earn their spots in the final. There were 30 men and 30 women vying for five spots each at the in-person final in California in October.
On the men’s side, Fraser will be joined by Noah Ohlsen, Justin Medeiros, Samuel Kwant and Jeffery Adler in the final.
Fraser has won four consecutive CrossFit Games and proved why he is favourite to take a fifth title by opening the weekend with an event win. He then backed up the performance with a fourth, first, eighth, first, second and first-place finish over the course of the weekend. Going into the final workout, he was 99 points ahead of Ohlsen.
A handful of athletes were fighting for the final spot. Jonne Koski, of Finland, was tied with American Chandler Smith for fifth after event six. Right behind those two was Canadian Adler, but he leapfrogged both on the final workout.
In the women’s competition, Toomey is joined by Brooke Wells, Haley Adams, Katrin Davidsdottir and Kari Pearce.