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CROSSFIT GAMES
Our Predictions for Age Group and Team Quarterfinals Tests
The 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games season is well underway with the Age Group and Team divisions taking on their respective Quarterfinal tests this weekend. A deeper dive into the Team competition can be found here and a rundown of the Age Group division is here.
The floor plans for the Age Group, along with the Team division were released to athletes on Monday. Morning Chalk Up’s CrossFit analyst and CrossFit L3 coach Joey Adduci and CrossFit L1 coach and writer Teaganne Finn share their predictions for the workouts.
Age Group Predictions
Event 1
Summary: The way the dumbbells are set up it seems likely there will be some type of DB walking movement involved. The pull-up bar also indicates some sort of pulling movement, and much like the individual Quarterfinals it very well could be a combination of movements increasing in difficulty.
The 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games Season Worldwide rankings have been updated. 📈 📉
On the women’s side, Laura Horvath is ranked first overall, Mal O’Brien is second and Danielle Brandon is third.
On the men’s side, Justin Medeiros holds the top spot, Patrick Vellner is in second and Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson is in third.
ICYMI: Yesterday, CrossFit announced that the Individual Quarterfinals leaderboard was locked and revealed the number of Games spots available by region (according to the strength of field calculations).
North America West: 9 Men, 10 Women
North American East: 12 Men, 11 Women
Europe: 11 Men, 11 Women
Oceania: 3 Men, 3 Women
Asia: 2 Men, 2 Women
South America: 2 Men, 2 Women
Africa: 1 Man, 1 Woman
Get’em while they’re hot: 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games Semifinal tickets are available now. 🎟️ 🎟️ 🎟️
Volunteer!: The volunteer application page for the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games Semifinal events is now live.
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With the Individual Quarterfinals in the rearview mirror, CrossFit has dropped a lot of news related to the 2023 season in the past few days. Here’s a quick round-up, in case you’ve missed anything:
Africa
1. Kealan Henry (37) | Christina Livaditakis (30)
2. Darren Zurnamer (39) | Mariska Smit (42)
3. Michael Van Tonder (51) | Gemma Rader (43)
4. Callum Deeble (51) | Tanha Bouffe (55)
5. Daniel Griesel (65) | Georgia Ayres (60)
2) The worldwide rankings have been reset, taking into account the 2023 Quarterfinals. Here are the top-ten men and women:
Justin Medeiros | Laura Horvath
Patrick Vellner | Mallory O’Brien
Bjorgvin Karl Gudmundsson | Danielle Brandon
Saxon Panchik | Gabriela Migala
Lazar Djukic | Emma McQuaid
Jeffrey Adler | Brooke Wells
Roman Khrennikov | Amanda Barnhart
Brent Fikowski | Arielle Loewen
Jayson Hopper | Jacqueline Dahlstrom
Guilherme Malheiros | Emma Lawson
3) The total number of 2023 CrossFit Games spots have been allocated per Semifinal based on the strength of field calculation. Here is the distribution (and a quick description of how this process worked):
North America East – 12 Men, 11 Women
North America West – 9 Men, 10 Women
Europe – 11 Men, 11 Women
Oceania – 3 Men, 3 Women
Asia – 2 Men, 2 Women
South America – 2 Men, 2 Women
Africa – 1 Man, 1 Woman
4) Semifinals tickets for spectators are now available. Here are the competition weekends:
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Congratulations to Raheem from Core City CrossFit Kids in Detroit, MI on his first bar muscle-up.
🌴 Congratulations to Stoic’s Gals and Wall Balls Deep on their first place finishes in the women’s and men’s scaled team divisions this past weekend at the Pensacola Spring Beach Brawl.
Congratulations to the nine MisFit Athletics individual athletes that qualified to semifinals across five regions: Alexis Johnson, Luka Djukic, Paige Semenza, Caroline Spencer, Kelly Kelly, Julia Kato, George Rhigas, Makenna Enslin, and Natalie Jennings.
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