CrossFit Games 2020: Justin Medeiros’ inexperience won’t stop the rookie mixing it with Mat Fraser
- Justin Medeiros is already in the top five in only his first year at the CrossFit Games, but can he shock the big guns and stand on the podium?
The top five men in the first leg of the CrossFit Games progressed to this weekend’s final – in first was four-time champion Mat Fraser, in second was last year’s runner-up Noah Ohlsen, in third was … who?
Justin Medeiros burst onto the CrossFit scene by claiming a spot in the final at his first ever CrossFit Games. At just 21 years of age, this rookie of the year has bags of potential supplemented by a dose of mental resilience.
If he wins, Medeiros will be the first rookie to claim the title of “Fittest on Earth” since the introduction of qualification via the Open in 2011. Even second place would put him on par with the great Fraser, who was runner-up on his debut in 2014.
“To beat Mat Fraser you just got to be going really, really fast, and you have to be going really, really hard. People have been trying to figure that out now for the past four or five years,” Medeiros said on a YouTube video by Buttery Bros, the team in charge of the Games documentary.
“I’m really curious to see what he’s all about. But he’s human, I think we’ve seen that. He’s beatable. I’m really excited to hopefully make that happen.”