Month: January 2019

It’s easy to miss important updates of the CrossFit Open, the sanctional events and all the surrounding events that take place in the CrossFit Games season this year. To help you out and get a quick overview if your favorite athlete already reserved a spot to the CrossFit Games 2019, we will compile a list of individual men and women who already got an invite to the Games.

This page will be updated whenever a sanctioned event is complete or something else comes up.

If you spot a mistake or if you feel like one of the points need more clarification, make sure to get in contact.

First let’s talk about the winners of the sanctional events – or the fallback tickets that others got after everything settled down. Names marked cursive are fallback tickets, so the athlete didn’t win the sanctional event, but because of the National Champions or the Open Top 20 got a ticket to the Games anyway.

Men

• Roman Khrennikov (Dubai)
• Noah Ohlsen (Wodapalooza)
• James Newbury (Australian CrossFit Championship)
• Sean Sweeny (Fittest In Cape Town)
• Bronislaw Olenkowicz (Strength In Depth)
• John-Paul Hethcock (MidAtlanticCrossFit Challenge)
• Lukas Esslinger (CrossFit Italian Showdown)
• Brent Fikowski (Asia CrossFit Championship)
• Will Moorad (Reykjavik Crossfit Championship)
• Chandler Smith (Rogue Invitational)
• Matt McLeod (Down Under CrossFit Championship)
• Saxon Panchik (Brazil CrossFit Championship)
• Nick Bloch (Granite Games)
• Ryan Sowder (CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown)
• Josh Miller (CrossFit French Throwdown)

Women

• Bethany Shadbourne (Dubai)
• Taylor Streid (Wodapalooza)
• Maddie Sturt (Australian CrossFit Championship)
• MIchelle Merand (Fittest In Cape Town)
• Emma Tall (Strength In Depth)
• Meg Reardon (MidAtlanticCrossFit Challenge)
• Erin Vandendriessche (CrossFit Italian Showdown)
• Eik Gylfadottir (Asia CrossFit Championship)
• Hannah Karlsson (Reykjavik Crossfit Championship)
• Rachel Garibay (Rogue Invitational)
• Lindsay Vaughan (Down Under CrossFit Championship)
• Page Semenza (Brazil CrossFit Championship)
• Emily Rolfe (Granite Games)
• Alice Mill (CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown)
• Sabrina Caron (CrossFit French Throwdown)

Teams

• Invictus: Lauren Fisher, Regan Huckaby, Tommy Vinas, Rasmus Wisbech Anderson (Dubai)
• Romwod/WIT: Jamie Greene, Cody Mooney, Jessica Griffith, Alec Smith (Wodapalooza)
• Project X: Harriet Roberts, Brandon Swan, Khan Porter, Jessica Coughlan
  (Australian CrossFit Championship)
• Vondelgym: Nienke van Overveld, Jeremy Reijnders, Sigrid Koolhaas, Sven Verheul (Fittest In Cape Town)
• Central Beasts: Joseph Tortora, Nicole Holcomb, Emma Chapman, Zach Sowder (Strength In Depth)
• Invictus: Sam Dancer, Chantelle Loehner, Maddy Myers, Holden Rethwill (MidAtlanticCrossFit Challenge)
• Mayhem Freedom: Tasia Percevecz, Dre Strohm, Chyna Cho, Rich Froning (Asia CrossFit Championship)
• Crossfit OC3 (Rogue Invitational)
• X-Terminators: James Newbury, Madeline Sturt, Kate Gordon, Rob Forte (Down Under CrossFit Championship)
• Team Pro1: Lorraine Allard, Manon Lesur, David Fontaine, Joe Scali (Brazil CrossFit Championship)
• Invictus X: Sam Dancer, Kristi Eramo, Margaux Alvarez, Holden Rethwill (Granite Games)
• Barebells Prepared: Mia Åkerlund, Alexander Elebro, Synne Krokstad, Phil Hesketh (CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown)
• Invictus Boston: Briana Hamilton, Tola Morakinyo, Nate McCabe, Kels Kiel (CrossFit French Throwdown)

Top 20 in the Open

Here are the Top 20 male and female athletes of the CrossFit Open 2019 – the one in March – who get a ticket to the CrossFit Games 2019:

Men

1. JACOB HEPPNER
2. COLE SAGER
3. GEORGE STERNER
4. SAMUEL COURNOYER
5. RICHARD FRONING JR. (declined)
6. SCOTT PANCHIK
7. JASON CARROLL
8. ZACHERY BUNTIN
9. TRAVIS MAYER
10. STREAT HOERNER
11. RICHARD CASTILLO
12. SAMUEL KWANT
13. SIMON MÄNTYLÄ
14. LOGAN COLLINS
15. ERIC CARMODY
16. CASPER GAMMELMARK
17. ALEX VIGNEAULT
18. JEFFREY ADLER
19. DEVIN FORD (declined)
20. DEAN LINDER-LEIGHTON
21. PATRICK VELLNER
22. TIM PAULSON

Women

1. ANNIE THORISDOTTIR
2. KRISTIN HOLTE
3. JAMIE GREENE
4. DANI SPEEGLE
5. BROOKE WELLS
6. TIA-CLAIR TOOMEY
7. KARISSA PEARCE
8. AMANDA BARNHART
9. CAROL-ANN REASON-THIBAULT
10. MEKENZIE RILEY
11. KARIN FREYOVÁ
12. KATRIN TANJA DAVIDSDOTTIR
13. CAROLYNE PREVOST
14. EMMA MCQUAID
15. DANIELLE BRANDON
16. MCKENZIE FLINCHUM
17. BROOKE HAAS
18. ALEXIS JOHNSON
19. JACQUELINE DAHLSTRØM
20. CHANTELLE LOEHNER
21. FEEROOZEH SAGHAFI
22. TASIA PERCEVECZ (declined)
23. KRISTI ERAMO (declined)
24. KATIE TROMBETTA
25. CARRIE BEAMER
26. KATELIN VAN ZYL
27. HALEY ADAMS
28. COLLEEN FOTSCH
29. COURTNEY HALEY

National Champions

The following list shows the national champs for the men and women who received a ticket to the CrossFit Games 2019 via the CrossFit Open 2019.

The national champions have a big effect on the games tickets, so this page will be updated as soon as the 2019 leaderboard settles down after the Open.

Men

Country	Athlete	Affiliate
Afghanistan	Sami Salampur	CrossFit Malmö
Algeria	Chaker Alouni	CrossFit TANKA
Andorra	Enric Closa	La Borda CrossFit
Angola	Marco Almeida	Ultimate Burn CrossFit
Argentina	Agustin Richelme
Australia	Bayden Brown	CrossFit Townsville
Austria	Christoph Koerner	Triller CrossFit
Azerbaijan	Zeynal Zeynalov
Bahamas	David Morley
Bahrain	Majid Al Sharaf	CrossFit Delmon
Barbados	Richy Jordan	CrossFit Hammersmith
Belarus	Nikita Yundov	CrossFit Kaban
Belgium	Alban Dubois	CrossFit Albi
Belize	Vernon Neal	CrossFit Subterranean
Bolivia	J. Rodrigo Agreda	Hudson River CrossFit
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Dorde Duric	Tantum CrossFit
Botswana	Katlego Kgwadi	CrossFit Gaborone
Brazil	Guilherme Malheiros	CrossFit Al Ain
Brunei Darussalam	Kamarul Ariffin
Bulgaria	Stavri Stavrev	CrossFit Worlds End
Cambodia	Kobe Khy	CrossFit Yiqi
Canada	Jean-Simon Roy-Lemaire	Tonic CrossFit
Chile	Piero Gorichon
China	Ant Haynes	CrossFit CFPT
Colombia	Bryan Hernández	CrossFit Canarias
Costa Rica	William Sanchez	Training PIT CrossFit
Croatia	Augustin Vilicnik
Cyprus	Achilleas Pantazis	CrossFit Limassol
Czech Republic	David Stroupek	CrossFit With Us
Denmark	Frederik Aegidius	CrossFit Reykjavík
Djibouti	Pending
Dominican Republic	Eusebio Aldano	CrossFit Steel Factory
Ecuador	Sebastian Rodriguez
Egypt	Mohamed Elomda	CrossFit MetaliZe
El Salvador	Rodrigo Beltran	RD CrossFit
Estonia	Mihkel Keldoja	CrossFit Tartu
Finland	Jonne Koski	CrossFit Kreis 9
France	Willy Georges	CrossFit Lutece
Germany	Joshua Wichtrup	CrossFit Flensburg
Ghana	Edem Ahiaku	CrossFit Leeds
Greece	Lefteris Theofanidis	CrossFit North Zone
Guatemala	Marlon Azurdia
Guyana	Dillon Mahadeo	CrossFit 592
Honduras	Franky Wood
Hungary	Gábor Török
Iceland	Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson	CrossFit Hengill
India	Vedharth Thappa	CrossFit 7 Seas
Indonesia	Mahendra Arditirta	CrossFit 6221
Iran	Payam Saljoughian	Diablo CrossFit
Iraq	Mustafa El-Lari	CrossFit AKA
Ireland	Michael Smith	CrossFit 8020
Israel	Yuval Regev	CrossFit Florentin
Italy	Stefano Migliorini	Reebok CrossFit Officine
Jamaica	Sion Brinn	Be CrossFit
Japan	Shingo Moromasa	BeeGrow CrossFit
Jordan	Amin Attallah	CrossFit 962
Kazakhstan	Valentin Zhukov
Kenya	Jeremy Mghenyi	CrossFit Progression
Korea, Republic of	JiMoo Son	CrossFit Limelight
Kosovo	Robert Berisha	CrossFit HelvetiX
Kuwait	Khalid Aljarallah	Circuit Plus CrossFit Shuwaikh
Latvia	Uldis Upenieks	CrossFit Riga
Lebanon	Moustafa Awada	CrossFit Dignus
Lithuania	Arminas Balevicius	CrossFit 82
Luxembourg	Connor Nellans	CrossFit Invictus
Macedonia	Darko Tasevski	CrossFit Skopje
Madagascar	Ratsimbazafy Michael	CrossFit TANKA
Malaysia	Edmund Tan
Malta	Daryl Borg
Mauritius	Jean-Marc Laventure	CrossFit Alioth
Mexico	Darwin Perez	CrossFit 3 Sons
Morocco	Karim El Hlimi	CrossFit The Flying V
Mozambique	Pack Santos
Namibia	Volker Hansen	CrossFit Swakopmund
Netherlands	Sam Lubben	CrossFit Finestrat
New Zealand	Luke Fiso	Thorndon CrossFit
Nicaragua	Arturocesar Mora	CrossFit FE
Nigeria	Uyi Nosa Osawe
Norway	Nicolay Billaudel	CrossFit Sandvika
Oman	Aslam Al Shukaili	CrossFit Tempo
Pakistan	Bilal Tariq	CrossFit BNB
Palestinian Territory	Hamzeh Tarefi	CrossFit Ramallah
Panama	Alvaro Lopez	Reebok CrossFit PTY
Paraguay	Diego Kemper	BIGG CrossFit Herrera
Peru	Jovaldo Miranda	PUL CrossFit
Philippines	Justin Hernandez	Avant Garde CrossFit
Poland	Bartek Lipka	CrossFit R99
Portugal	Joao Ferreira	CrossFit OPO
Qatar	Khalid Alhamadi
Romania	Severin Irimia
Russian Federation	Aleksandar Ilin	CrossFit Idol
Saint Lucia	Heskeith Flavien	CrossFit 414
Samoa	Daniel Rankin	CrossFit Propolis
San Marino	Davide Zonzini	CrossFit Way Out
Saudi Arabia	Hussain Saeedi	966 CrossFit Al-Nahda
Senegal	Mody Traore	Casa CrossFit Anfa
Serbia	Lazar Đukić	Circuit Plus CrossFit Shuwaikh
Singapore	Ian Wee	CrossFit Mobilus
Slovakia	Erik Toth	CrossFit BBros
Slovenia	Aleks Koštomaj	Reebok CrossFit Ljubljana
South Africa	Jason Smith	CrossFit Kyalami
Spain	Alexander Anasagasti	CrossFit Zurriola
Sri Lanka	Andy Andrews	CrossFit Ceylon
Suriname	Raveendath Bajnath	Rock CrossFit Paramaribo
Sweden	Lukas Högberg	CrossFit Nordic
Switzerland	Adrian Mundwiler
Syrian Arab Republic	Abdul Ghani Saad Aldin	CrossFit MetaliZe
Tajikistan	Bahodur Kamilov	Kuvvat CrossFit
Tanzania	Pending
Thailand	Ben Santhudkijkarn	CrossFit Portsea Island
Tonga	Andre Alipate	CrossFit 3216
Trinidad and Tobago	Mattheaus Otero	Igone CrossFit
Tunisia	Marzougui Mootez
Turkey	Ates Boran	CrossFit Boran
Ukraine	Oleksandr Shkoliarenko	CrossFit Sea Energy
United Arab Emirates	Mahmood Shalan	CrossFit Alioth
United Kingdom	Elliot Simmonds	CrossFit Yas
United States	Mathew Fraser	CrossFit Mayhem
Uruguay	Santiago Comba	Instinto CrossFit
Venezuela	Omar Martinez	CrossFit 4 L
Viet Nam	Keith Nhan	AllSport CrossFit
Zambia	Pending
Zimbabwe	Jean-Claude Jardim	CrossFit Dignus

Women

Country	Athlete	Affiliate
Algeria	Nadia Ouyahia	Escale CrossFit
Andorra	Miriam Torra Sola	La Borda CrossFit
Angola	Inara Lopes	CrossFit Maculusso
Argentina	Melina Rodriguez
Australia	Tia-Clair Toomey	CrossFit Mayhem
Austria	Vanessa Wagner
Azerbaijan	Sima Huseynova
Bahamas	Chanelle Munroe	CrossFit Potcake
Bahrain	Aysha Saeed	CrossFit Delmon
Barbados	Kira Oliver	CrossFit Towards
Belarus	Tatiana Diakou	Mad Hall CrossFit
Belgium	Carmen Bosmans	InnerFight CrossFit DXB
Belize	Cricel Castillo	CrossFit San Pedro Town
Bolivia	Martha Berrocal	Barra Norte CrossFit
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ksenija Kecman	Tantum CrossFit
Botswana	Cingiwe Ciegy Seru	CrossFit Gaborone
Brazil	Renata Pimentel	CrossFit Gurkha
Brunei Darussalam	Nina Juna	Reebok CrossFit 673
Bulgaria	Ralitza Koterlitzova	CrossFit Valeo
Cambodia	Sreymao Po	CrossFit Amatak
Canada	Carol-Ann Reason-Thibault	CrossFit Saint Jerome
Chile	Simona Quintana	CrossFit El Camino
China	Tsai-Jui Hung	CrossFit X Ray
Colombia	Maria Camila Quintero	Faster CrossFit
Costa Rica	Marisol Umana	Morpho CrossFit
Croatia	Tamara Zulim
Cyprus	Thelma Christoforou	CrossFit Limassol
Czech Republic	Sona Karaskova	CrossFit With Us
Denmark	Julie Hougård Nielsen	Lofteriet CrossFit
Dominican Republic	Sheerly Bueno Reyes
Ecuador	Andrea Rodriguez	Lycan CrossFit
Egypt	Aya Fouad	CrossFit Tycoons
El Salvador	Patricia Trujillo	CrossFit Fortaleza
Estonia	Anastassia Psenitsnaja	Tallinn CrossFit
Finland	Emilia Leppanen	CrossFit Kreis 9
France	Carole Castellani	CrossFit Lyon
Germany	Lisa Eble	CrossFit Jackhammer
Greece	Anna Fragkou	CrossFit Kallithea
Guatemala	Vera Valdez	CrossFit Tecun Uman
Guyana	Delice Adonis	CrossFit 592
Honduras	Karen Gabriela Perez Rivas
Hungary	Laura Horvath	CrossFit BBros
Iceland	Ragnheiður Sara Sigmundsdottir	CrossFit Sudurnes
India	Sanjana Sivasalapathi	CrossFit Wolvish
Indonesia	Citra Ramaniya	CrossFit Limburg
Iran	AJ Ra	CrossFit Active
Ireland	Emma McQuaid	CrossFit Berserk
Israel	Nicole Pettel	CrossFit White City
Italy	Alessandra Pichelli	Diablo CrossFit
Jamaica	Amy Cheung	West Markham CrossFit
Japan	Akiko Kamitani	CrossFit Minatomirai
Jordan	Dema Al Zebdieh	CrossFit 962
Kazakhstan	Zhibek Kurmasheva
Kenya	Sheena Miller	CrossFit TDS
Korea, Republic of	Heidi Choi	CrossFit Zest
Kuwait	Hajer Jamal	CrossFit 965
Latvia	Krista Kraskura
Lebanon	Danielle Shanine	CrossFit 309
Lithuania	Vilija Teel	Patriot CrossFit
Luxembourg	Jacky Schmitt	Reebok CrossFit Valens
Macedonia	Viki Ristoska
Madagascar	Laura Decampe
Malaysia	Amira Ayob
Malta	Jessica Borg Ghigo
Mauritius	Melanie Yip Woon Sun	UPT CrossFit
Mexico	Brenda Castro	CrossFit Tigran
Morocco	Sanaa Mandar	CrossFit Ain Diab
Mozambique	Zaida Amade	Super Set CrossFit
Namibia	Lara Erlank	Diablo CrossFit
Netherlands	Leonie Henrich	CrossFit Punt Uit
New Zealand	Jamie Greene	CrossFit Yas
Nicaragua	Fernanda Saavedra	Freakin CrossFit
Nigeria	Jennifer Okpolua	CrossFit Jagun
Norway	Kristin Holte	CrossFit Oslo
Oman	Pasent Medhat	CrossFit Engine 38
Pakistan	Mishka Murad	Norwottuck CrossFit
Palestinian Territory	Marian Khoury	CrossFit Ramallah
Panama	Luaneth Alveo	Reebok CrossFit PTY
Paraguay	Carol Colling-Romero	Kingbull CrossFit
Peru	Sofia Bermeo	Altair CrossFit
Philippines	Kristen Lim	Avant Garde CrossFit
Poland	Gabriela Migała	CrossFit 72D
Portugal	Sara Pinto	CrossFit Feira
Qatar	Pending
Romania	Oana Catalina Chelmus
Russian Federation	Anastasiya Ganina	CrossFit 19.05
Samoa	MariaNive Clark	CrossFit NWA
San Marino	Marika Marzi	CrossFit Way Out
Saudi Arabia	Amal Alshahrani	CrossFit AlKhobar
Serbia	Tamara Trumbetaš
Singapore	Landy Pui Boon Eng	CrossFit Mobilus
Slovakia	Karin Freyová	CrossFit Alpha Prime
Slovenia	Urska Breznik
South Africa	Dina Swift	CrossFit Tijger Valley
Spain	Sara Alicia Fernandez Costas	CrossFit Norte Redondela
Sri Lanka	Keshini Vitharana	CrossFit Ceylon
Suriname	Ava Zalman	Rock CrossFit Paramaribo
Sweden	Camilla Salomonsson Hellman
Switzerland	Alessia Joy Wälchli
Syrian Arab Republic	Pending
Thailand	Uracha Teerawanitsan	Thonglor CrossFit
Trinidad and Tobago	Lyndsay Murray	Igone CrossFit
Tunisia	Jessica Sanki	Reebok CrossFit Louvre
Turkey	Neyran Guneli	CrossFit SkyLight
Ukraine	Ganna Almazova	CrossFit October
United Arab Emirates	Shahad Budebs	CrossFit MetaliZe
United Kingdom	Samantha Briggs	CrossFit Black Five
United States	Dani Speegle	SUBU CrossFit
Uruguay	Victoria Frascolla	CrossFit Del Sur
Venezuela	Laura Gonzalez-Marin	CrossFit Soul Miami
Viet Nam	Trang Nguyen	CrossFit Thao Dien
Zambia	Pending
Zimbabwe	Denise Tryon	CrossFit Frantic

If you spot a mistake or if you feel like one of the points need more clarification, make sure to get in contact.

The current season of the CrossFit Games is a bit chaotic and there is a lot going on over two dozen events. The official rulebook was released (download the PDF here) and we know the process how athletes can earn a spot. Here’s the short version how to get to the CrossFit Games 2019:

• Win your country in the CrossFit Open
• Top 20 worldwide in the CrossFit Open
• Age group online qualifier
• Win one of the official sanctional events
• 4 invites directly given by CrossFit HQ

There is a lot going on. If you want to make sure you don’t miss an important event, make sure to check out the CrossFit Games season schedule.

If you spot a mistake or if you feel like one of the points need more clarification, make sure to get in contact.

National champions

Once the leaderboard is set and citizenship has been verified, CrossFit Inc. will notify individual athletes that they have qualified for the Games.

Section 4.02 in the rulebook

This means that in May 2019 we will know the names of the national champions of each country participating in the Open. There is one caveat though: if a national champion declines, the spot will not be backfilled.

Top 20 worldwide in the Open

The video review process for individual athletes who finish in the top 20 overall worldwide after the Open will be completed no later than April 29, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. PT. … CrossFit Inc. will email the men and women in the top 20 overall worldwide

Section 4.03 in the rulebook

Again, in May 2019 we will know the names of 20 male and 20 female athletes going to the CrossFit Games. There are some caveat though:

• if an athlete is also a national champion or declines the invitation, the spot will be backfilled to the next athlete
• if the athlete already won a sanctional event, the spot will not be backfilled

Age group online qualifier

… the top 10 men and women in each age-group division (including teenage divisions) will qualify to compete at the Games …

Section 2.06 in the rulebook

Again, there is a backfill process: if any athlete in the top 10 declines the invite, the next athlete in the division will get the invite.

Invitation from Sanctional Events

In 2019, there will be 15 Sanctionals from which the top male and female athletes and teams* (from the elite or Rx’d division equivalent) may receive invitations to compete at the Games.

Section 4.04 in the rulebook

There is also a backfill process: in case the winner already has an invite to the CrossFit Games, the invite will go to the second-place athlete. If someone wins multiple sanctional events, the backfill process will follow the chronological sequence of the events.

Invitation by an at-large bid

CrossFit Inc. reserves the right to invite four individual athletes to compete at the Games. The means by which an athlete can earn one of the four at-large bids is solely up to CrossFit Inc.’s discretion.

Section 4.06 in the rulebook

This is basically the wildcard for HQ to invite any individual they seem fit. It might come in handy if a fan favorite somehow misses to qualify for a spot or maybe for some high profile athlete from other sports to get a chance to compete in the CrossFit Games.

If you spot a mistake or if you feel like one of the points need more clarification, make sure to get in contact.