The 2022 NOBULL CrossFit Games are back! From Aug. 3-7, tons of of athletes across 27 divisions will flock to Madison, WI, to compete for the title of Fittest on Earth®. 

After the primary day of competition, Mal O’Brien leads the ladies and Ricky Garard leads the boys. Surprisingly, Tia-Clair Toomey sits in eighth place overall and logged her lowest Games event placing since 2015.

2022 CrossFit Games Leaderboard

Editor’s Note: On Feb. 24, 2022, CrossFit released a press release by which they said they might not recognize the governments of Russia or Belarus throughout the 2022 season. In consequence, CrossFit has removed Russian and Belarusian flags and names from the profiles of Individual and Team competitors.

Men

1. Ricky Garard [Australia] —270 points
2. Justin Medeiros [USA] — 255 points
3. Patrick Vellner [Canada] — 237 points
4. Jonne Koski [Finland] — 237 points
5. Roman Khrennikov [Russia] — 231 points
6. Lazar Dukic [Serbia] — 231 points
7. Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson [Iceland] — 211 points
8. Nick Matthew [USA] — 200 points
9. Noah Ohlsen [USA] — 198 points
10. Uldis Upenieks [Latvia] — 192 points
11. Will Moorad [USA] — 174 points
12. Jeffrey Adler [Canada] — 167 points
13. Colten Mertens [USA] — 163 points
14. Guilherme Malheiros [Brazil] —157 points
15. Spencer Panchik [USA] — 157 points
16. Enrico Zenoni [Italy] — 154 points
17. Samuel Kwant [USA] — 149 points
18. Jay Crouch [Australia] — 142 points
19. Dallin Pepper [USA] — 132 points
20. Austin Spencer [USA] — 128 points
21. Moritz Fiebig [Germany] — 126 points
22. Cole Sager [USA] — 125 points
23. Guillaume Briant [France] — 122 points
24. Willy Georges [France] — 121 points
25. Brent Fikowski [Canada] — 118 points
26. Alexandre Caron [Canada] — 116 points
27. Travis Mayer [USA] — 110 points
28. Andre Houdet [Denmark] — 105 points
29. Henrik Haapalainen [Finland] — 102 points
30. Saxon Panchik [USA] — 100 points
31. Timothy Paulson [USA] — 97 points
32. Jayson Hopper [USA] — 97 points
33. Cole Greashaber [USA] — 93 points
34. Alex Vigneault [Canada] — 90 points
35. Kealan Henry [South Africa] — 60 points
36. Bayden Brown [Australia] — 52 points
37. Giorgos Karavis [Greece] — 46 points
38. Agustin Richelme [Argentina] — 46 points
39. Tudor Magda [USA]  — 20 points
40. Arthur Semenov [Russia] —16 points

Women

1. Mallory O’Brien [USA] — 270 points
2. Emma Lawson [Canada] — 243 points
3. Arielle Loewen [USA] — 237 points
4. Kristi Eramo O’Connell [USA] — 228 points
5. Haley Adams [USA] — 225 points
6. Alexis Raptis [USA] — 219 points
7. Danielle Brandon [USA] — 213 points
8. Tia-Clair Toomey [Australia] — 209 points
9. Kara Saunders [Australia] — 207 points
10. Rebecca Fuselier [USA] — 183 points
11. Laura Horvath [Hungary] — 183 points
12. Carolyne Prevost [Canada] — 183 points
13. Emma McQuaid [Ireland] — 169 points
14. Baylee Rayl [USA] — 168 points
15. Elisa Fuliano [Italy] — 164 points
16. Dani Speegle [USA] — 164 point
17. Thuridur Erla Helgadottir [Iceland] — 161 points
18. Paige Semenza [USA] — 153 points
19. Jacqueline Dahlstrom [Norway] — 149 points
20. Brooke Wells [USA] — 142 points
21. Amanda Barnhart [USA] — 135 points
22. Matilde Garnes [Norway] — 132 points
23. Christine Kolenbrander [USA] — 126 points
24. Ellie Turner [Australia] — 119 points
25. Gabriela Migala [Poland] — 117 points
26. Victoria Campos [Brazil] — 103 points
27. Lucy Campbell [United Kingdom] — 97 points
28. Karin Freyova [Slovakia] — 95 points
29. Seher Kaya [Turkey] — 92 points
30. Paige Powers [USA] —92 points
31. Julia Kato [Brazil] — 88 points
32. Alex Willis [USA] — 74 points
33. Seungyeon Choi [Republic of Korea] — 70 points
34. Freya Moosbrugger [Canada] — 68 points
35. Caroline Conners [USA] — 58 points
36. Solveig Sigurdardottir [Iceland] — 48 points
37. Michelle Merand [South Africa] — 46 points
38. Sydney Michalyshen [Canada] — 42 points
39. Elena Carratala Sanahuja [Spain] — 18 points
40. Emily Rolfe [Canada] — 61 points [Withdrawn]

Wednesday Results

Wednesday, Aug. 3 marks the primary day of the Games; only Individuals and Teams might be competing today. There are three events scheduled.

[Related: 2022 CrossFit Games Workouts Revealed]

Event One Results — “Bike to Work”

Toomey, who’s the five-time defending champ, was the favourite going into the event. She got second (and 96 points), and it was American Haley Adams who got here with with the win — ending three seconds faster than Toomey. This was Adams’ first profession event win on the CrossFit Games.

After the event’s completion, judges took a chance to review several questionable performances and adjusted the standing accordingly. Danielle Brandon and Elena Carratala Sanahuja were found to haven’t accomplished all the bike course and had their times increased, while Seungyeon Choi was found to have accomplished an additional lap and had her time decreased accordingly.

Individual Women’s Results

1. Haley Adams — 38:23.74
2. Tia-Clair Toomey — 38:26.64
3. Emma Lawson — 38.30.48
4. Alexis Raptis — 39.01.04
5. Laura Horvath — 39.01.25
6. Mal O’Brien — 39.06.04
7. Matilde Garnes — 39.07.12
8. Lucy Campbell — 39.43.56
9. Kara Saunders — 39.59.64
10. Emma McQuaid — 40:19.55

Individual Men’s Results

1. Ricky Garard — 36:47.61
2. Jonne Koski — 36:49.34
3. Justin Medeiros — 36:53.65
4. Jeffrey Adler — 37:06.17
5. Spencer Panchik — 37:17.00
6. Roman Khrennikov — 37:18.52
7. Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson — 37:24.35
8. Willy Georges — 37:25.29
9. Moritz Fiebig — 37:29.71
10. Lazar Dukic — 37:48.00

Event 1 Breakdown

For time:

Time cap: 50 minutes

Event Two | Two 100-Point Workouts

From 0:00-2:00 (two minutes)

• Run 400 meters
• Max Jerks

Rest one minute.

From 3:00-6:00 (three minutes)

Rest two minutes.

From 8:00-12:00 (4 minutes)

Women: 200 kilos
Men: 300 kilos

In each round, athletes will perform the run after which complete as many jerks (shoulder-to-overheads) as possible within the time remaining. This might be scored as two separate 100-point events. The primary Shuttle to Overhead workout (A) rating might be an athlete’s total time to finish the three runs. The second Shuttle to Overhead workout (B) might be the entire variety of jerks accomplished across the three rounds.

Event Three — Skill Speed Medley

The Skill Speed Medley was a series of three rounds of progressively tougher mixtures of pegboard climbing, jump rope, pistol squats, and handstand walks. Each round had a three-minute closing date.

The primary round required athletes to climb a pegboard, perform 75 unbroken reps of jump rope, perform 10 unbroken pistol squats with each leg, and end with a handstand walk. The 20 best performers moved on to the second round which called for a more strict pegboard climb, 50 unbroken jump rope double-unders, 10 unbroken pistol squats per leg, and a handstand walk starting with a pirouette spin.

The competitors with the five best times progressed to the ultimate round: a strict pegboard climb, 50 unbroken jump rope double-unders with a hand crossover, 10 unbroken pistol squats per leg, and a a handstand walk starting with an L-sit on parallel bars.

The largest surprise of this round was the relatively poor performance from five-time Games champion Tia-Clair Toomey, who struggled with the unbroken jump rope in the primary round and was unable to progress to round two.

Individual Women’s Results

1. Danielle Brandon — 1 point
2. Rebecca Fuselier — 2 points
3. Emma Lawson — 3 points
4. Elisa Fuliano — 4 points
5. Mallory O’Brien — 5 points

Individual Men’s Results

1. Nick Matthew — 1 point
2. Guilherme Malheiros — 2 points
3. Justin Medeiros — 3 points
4. Patrick Vellner — 4 points
5. Ricky Garard — 5 points

Event 4 — Elizabeth Elevated

The fourth event of this yr’s CrossFit Games are an amped up version of the classic Elizabeth WOD often seen in typical CrossFit programming. For an everyday workout, Elizabeth is a simple combination of cleans and ring dips for 21 reps, 12 reps, and nine reps.

On the Games, Elizabeth Elevated required athletes performed squat cleans followed by parallel bar dips in a sequence of 21 reps per exercise, 15 reps per exercise, nine reps per exercise,  nine reps per exercise, and a final nine reps per exercise. Women used a 95-pound barbell and had a 12-minute closing date while men used a 135-pound barbell with a 10-minute time cap.

Individual Women’s Results

1. Arielle Loewen [USA] — 10:17.06
2. Kara Saunders [Australia] — 10:31.72
3. Mallory O’Brien [USA] — 10:33.77
4. Kristi Eramo O’Connell [USA] — 10:37.31
5. Emma McQuaid [Ireland] — 10:42.96

Individual Men’s Results

1. Patrick Vellner — 8:42.16
2. Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson — 9:20.11
3. Colten Mertens — 9:24.49
4. Noah Olsen — 9:39.12
5. Uldis Upenieks — 9:46.81

Events and Results will proceed to be updated as they develop into available throughout the Games.

Athlete Withdrawals

Here, we’ll keep track of all of the athletes who withdraw throughout the competition. 

• Emily Rolfe (Individual Women)
• Tom Muhlbeier (Men 65+)

The right way to Watch the 2022 CrossFit Games

There are a number of options on methods to watch the Games for fans who can’t make it to Madison.

Those that elect to catch the motion on YouTube can pick from five languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian. 

Below are the streaming times for when viewers will have the option to observe the Games on the CrossFit Games app, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and Pluto TV. The two-hour time slot during each Individual Finals is exclusive to the CBS Television Network. Each of the listed times are in Eastern Standard Time.

Note: Viewers can find the schedule for his or her local time within the CrossFit Games app:

• Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022 — 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. EST
• Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022 — 10 a.m. – 7:15 p.m. EST
• Friday, Aug. 5, 2022 — 10 a.m. – 8:15 p.m. EST
• Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022 — 9 a.m. – 9:20 p.m. EST
• Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 — 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST
• Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022 — 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. EST on CBS Television Network | Exclusive to CBS TV

The Individual and Team divisions will start the Games on Wednesday, Aug 3, 2022. Then there might be a brief rest day before the remainder of the competition from Friday, August 5, to the Finals on Sunday, August 7. The Games will begin with 40 Individual Men and Women each and 38 Teams. There’ll only be one significant cut of those athletes on Saturday, August 6.

By the point the Finals begin on Sunday, August 7, just 30 Individual competitors will remain for each the Men and Women, while only 20 Teams might be left standing. The Age Group and Adaptive divisions will begin on Thursday, August 4, and power through to the tip of the weekend. 

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