CrossFit Games 2020: Brooke Wells ready to take the next step from five-time Games athlete to the podium
- Brooke Wells has competed at the sport’s biggest competition six times, but this is her best shot at a podium finish
Brooke Wells is in the CrossFit Games 2020 finals and this could be her year to mature from promising youngster to full-blooded podium finisher.
Wells, 25, has been to five CrossFit Games, her first coming as a 19-year-old. While the American has cemented herself as a top 20 athlete, her finishes have yo-yoed – 16th, 6th, 14th, 8th and 15th. This weekend, she has the chance to take the next step in her career.
In a Games preview, presenters Sean Woodland and Annie Sakamoto said they were pleased to see her delivering on that early promise.
“She finished sixth [in 2015] and seemed to have a lot of momentum,” Sakamoto said. “She lost that momentum in the next few years.”
But it was “amazing” to see her performance in the first leg, where she was in second place from event one until the end, Sakamoto added.