CrossFit Games 2020 day one: Tia-Clair Toomey wins first three events to set standard
- The 2020 CrossFit Games features a staggering five events on day one and a surprise in the 5km trail race
- Defending champion Toomey makes a statement early in the competition and looks good heading into day two
In the final event of the day at the CrossFit Games 2020, a gruelling 5km trail race tested the athletes as they competed against each other for the first time.
The five women and five men were then thrown another surprise by CrossFit Games director Dave Castro – run the course in reverse, which meant it was actually a 10km challenge.
In the women’s competition, defending champion Tia-Clair Toomey charged out to lead and stayed with the men for a substantial part of the race. Toomey passed Samuel Kwant after about 11 minutes. Haley Adams slowly made up ground on Toomey and then pulled even around the 24-minute mark, and then led. However, Toomey quickly retook the lead.
At around 30 minutes, both Adams and Katrin Davidsdottir overtook Toomey. They swapped the lead before Davidsdottir ended up winning in just over an hour, with Adams in second, Toomey in third and Kari Pearce in fourth. Brooke Wells took a wrong turn early in the race and ended up fifth.
Davidsdottir said she actually relished the twist from Castro, saying: “Literally, the thing that went through my mind was, ‘Yes’.”
Overall, Toomey is leading with 370 points, ahead of Adams (295), Davidsdottir (260), Pearce (255) and Wells (220) heading into day two.
