|
Roundup — Carly Fuhrer hits a 220 pound clean at the Atlas Games competition in Montreal. Heather Hippensteel hits a 185 pound thruster complex. CBD Oil is being removed from the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned substance list. Tasia Percevecz starts her first full day of training at CrossFit Mayhem. Camille Leblanc-Bazinet’s 57-year-old mom hit a 155 pound clean PR.
Mathews Returns to Individual Competition — After suffering a devastating and season-ending injury during the 2017 CrossFit Games, Carleen Mathews placed eight at the Atlas Games; her first individual competition since withdrawing from The Games. “I finished strong and feel good about my performance. It realy lit a fire, not that there wasn’t one lit already but just shows me I can still compete!” Mathews will be running on Team Morning Chalk Up at the Ragnar Relay this Friday.
Ragnar Relay Update — The 100 mile relay race, which features the first official CrossFit division, kicks off this Friday. We’ve got our team set to race against more than a dozen affiliates, and Dave Castro announced that Alex
Parker will be the final female runner on his dream team.
While the Cameras Were Off — Last Thursday, after the cameras were turned off at the CrossFit Liftoff, Jamie Hagiya wanted a few more takes on the barbell. She snatched a 209 pound PR and clean and jerked a 255 pound PR, narrowly missing 264 pounds twice. That is one of the heaviest recorded clean and jerks of any
CrossFit Games athlete and the heaviest at any CrossFit-sanctioned event that we could find.
2017 IWF Worlds — Despite some rough performances for Team USA, 17-year-old Harrison Maurus was able to break the 20-year drought of male medal performances at Worlds. Maurus set a new Youth American Record with a 155kg/341 pound snatch, and took bronze in the clean and jerk with a 193kg/425 pound clean and jerk
and bronze overall.
— Mattie Rogers: She became the first female to medal at worlds since 2005, snatching 104kg/229 pounds and clean and jerking 131kg/288 pounds to sweep bronze. Reflecting on her performance, Rogers said: “After countless interviews asking me to describe how this experience feels, I still don’t quite know how to express it. I am honored to have brought home 3 medals for the USA…Not the
performance I wanted, but I believe that those feelings are just part of being an elite athlete.”
— CJ Cummings missed all three of his clean and jerks but snatched 141kg/310 pounds for a new American Record. FloElite captured all three misses.
— Jessica Lucero missed all three snatch attempts and ended with a 114kg/251 pound clean and jerk. Reflecting on her performance she said, “There’s nothing I can say. I let down USA, I let down myself. Regardless I’ll be back. I’ve never not gotten up from falling down in the past and I won’t start now.”
— Colins Burns withdrew from competition after hurting his elbow on his second snatch attempt. He snatched 163kg/359 pounds before withdrawing.
— Jenny Arthur took fifth place overall with a 104kg/229 pound snatch and a 130kg/286 pound clean and jerk.
P.S. Lydia Valentin’s 118kg/260 pound snatch was unbelieveable. Oh, and we can’t wait to hang with her tomorrow.
|
