Opinion | CrossFit: Sara Sigmundsdottir’s run of injuries and bad luck continue as 2021 season ends due to knee injury
- Icelandic star, once seen as a competitor to reigning four-time champion Tia-Clair Toomey, has been rocked by injury again
- Sigmundsdottir, 28, now looks farther than ever from the athlete who came no worse than fourth from 2015-17
There was a point in time when Iceland’s Sara Sigmundsdottir was seen as the future of CrossFit.
After the 2017 CrossFit Games she looked primed to finally take the next step. She finished fourth that year, after coming third the two previous seasons. But 2017 would mark the start of the Tia-Clair Toomey era in the sport, as the Australian finally won her first title after finishing second two years in a row.
During the 2018 CrossFit Games, Sigmundsdottir was sitting in 11th heading into the “Bicouplett” event on day three of the competition. In a shock announcement, she pulled the plug on her contest, noting she’d never felt so prepared for a games and was heartbroken.
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“But early on in the competition something happened and my ribs got really sore and bruised. I was in a bit of denial and decided to tough it out. In the “Marathon row” the pain went a way as soon as I had hit 10km, so I thought this couldn't be that bad. Afterwards the pain got so much worse.”