Abbie Domit, Jack Farlow Claim Inaugural XENOM Titles, Set World Records to Beat
After much anticipation, the CrossFit community finally experienced the first XENOM at the Star in Frisco, TX, this weekend.
Five hundred and fifty competitors across three divisions — Elite, Rx, and Compete — registered to tackle the Decathlon of Fitness, which promised to test every aspect of fitness.
- After 10 grueling events over two days, Abbie Domit and Jack Farlow claimed the Elite titles, became the first XENOM World Record holders, and each took home $25,000.
In the Elite Pairs division, four PRVN Fitness athletes came out on top: Olivia Kerstetter and Kyra Milligan on the women’s side, and Colten Mertens and Chris Ibarra on the men’s side.
Remind Me
Similar to the Olympic Decathlon, XENOM uses a points-based scoring system — the Elite Performance Index (EPI) — to measure an individual’s overall fitness and determine their global ranking across all 10 events.
- The EPI uses calibrated linear and progressive scoring curves to reflect the true spread of output, ensuring that each increment in performance, particularly at higher levels, is meaningfully rewarded.
A score of 7,000 or higher is considered elite fitness.
View all 10 XENOM events here.
How Farlow and Domit Did It
Farlow was impressive from the outset, opening the competition with a personal-best one-rep max snatch of 144kg (317 pounds). He led all competitors after Day 1.
But Day 2 started slowly for Farlow. He temporarily lost the lead to 2025 CrossFit Games athlete William Leahy. Farlow came roaring back on Event 7 — a five-rep max Rhino pull — and reclaimed the lead, never relinquishing it again.
Farlow finished his competition with 7,688 points, 278 points ahead of Leahy, and easily met the “elite fitness” standard.
On the women’s side, only one point separated Domit from Emily Rolfe after the first five events on Saturday, and their close battle continued into Sunday.
- Domit bested Rolfe in both Events 6 and 7, slightly increasing her lead, but Rolfe turned the tables in Event 8 — a workout with burpees, Echo Ski, and Echo Bike calories — and earned the most points in a single event of any competitor all weekend (978 points). This helped Rolfe close the gap to 26 points with two events to go.
But then came Event 9, a heavy clean ladder. Domit, known for her strength, demolished the field, logging 12 reps at the heaviest weight — 220 pounds — in the final two-and-a-half minutes of the event, after already cleaning 30 heavy ascending-weight reps.
Rolfe delivered a gutsy performance in Event 10, completing nearly a full round more than Domit, but Domit’s lead after Event 8 was too big. Domit earned the title with 8,076 points and is the first XENOM women’s world record holder.
One Big Thing
Four athletes who competed this weekend will also compete at the 20th CrossFit Games in San Jose, CA, in less than four weeks: Domit, Kerstetter, Milligan and Mertens.
When asked why she chose to enter the XENOM pool with the Games just around the corner, Domit explained that she saw it as a great opportunity to practice intensity in a less pressure-filled environment.
- “I just wanted to put myself out there, get myself mindset ready, get the jitters out early, and get into competition-mode early…And I think this is getting me prepped and ready for the intensity [at the Games],” Domit said.
Kerstetter’s answer about her decision to compete at XENOM was simple: “Why not?”
- “Get a little competition experience, some fun, some races,” Kerstetter said, adding that the experience at XENOM was “better than expected.”
Milligan added: “Get some intensity in before we compete in three weeks. And win a little money. It has been a joy.”
The Big Picture
Until this weekend, XENOM was still a concept. After two days in Texas, the CrossFit community now knows what the Decathlon of Fitness looks like in practice.
We’ll get to experience it all again when XENOM heads to London, UK, at the end of August, where elite competitors will aim to break Domit’s and Farlow’s World Records and earn $10,000.
And while XENOM founder Keith Barlow’s priority isn’t on the elite athletes — it’s on creating a CrossFit Games-like experience for the everyday athlete — he is still excited to watch elite athletes catch the XENOM bug.
- “I have an idea of how athletes’ brains work,” Barlow said. “And I am pretty confident other [elite competitors] are going to say, ‘OK, hang on a second. I’m coming to play.’”
