{"id":49815,"date":"2025-08-06T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49815\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:48:17","slug":"tia-clair-toomey-orr-makes-history-with-8th-crossfit-games-win-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/49815\/","title":{"rendered":"Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr makes history with 8th CrossFit Games win \u2013 here’s how"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr<\/a> is officially the greatest CrossFit athlete of all time. Yesterday, she was crowned the 2025 CrossFit Games<\/a> champion after a weekend of action in Albany, New York, bringing her winning streak to eight titles and 10 Games competition appearances. <\/p>\n

An achievement unmatched by any other athlete, it’s quadruple that of any previous Fittest Woman and outpaces the men’s wins, too: surpassing Rich Froning’s total of four, and three more than Mat Fraser’s five. <\/p>\n

This year, UK’s Lucy Campbell<\/a> came second, while Olivia Kerstetter came third. Having accumulated a total of 902 points by the Games’ end, Tia’s staggering 182-point lead ranks as her fourth-best of her eight. In 2020, she won by 360 points; in 2021, by 256; and by 195 in 2019. <\/p>\n

‘Everything about it is unprecedented. Tia is unprecedented,’ wrote Dave Castro<\/a>, director of the CrossFit Games. ‘Her legacy, if she ever gets around to retiring, will be the way her dominance changed an entire sport forever.’<\/p>\n

\"ImageEvent performance <\/p>\n

Straight out of the gate, Tia started the weekend in characteristically dominant fashion, winning the first two events<\/a>, ‘Run-Row-Run’ and ‘All Crossed Up’. However, she finished in an unusually low 16th place during Day 1’s last event, ‘Climbing Couplet’, and fourth in Event 4: ‘Albany Grip Trip’ featuring deadlifts<\/a> and handstand walks. <\/p>\n

Her 152kg back squat<\/a> placed her again in fourth place during Event 5’s one-rep max<\/a> test, but the veteran quickly regained her lead following third and second-place wins for the next two events \u2013 which included 35 calories on the SkiErg<\/a> and 28 chest-to-bar pull-ups <\/a>\u2013 placing her as the front-runner going into the competition’s last day. <\/p>\n

Increasing her overall lead, she struck gold in Event 8, ‘Going Dark’, and Event 9, ‘Running Isabel’. Victory, then almost certain, was cemented by her third-place finish in Event 10, ‘Atlas’. Her four event first places takes her career wins to 45.<\/p>\n

A legendary triumph<\/p>\n

‘She is the greatest we have ever seen come through this sport,’ the commentator announced during her award acceptance. As part of her prize pool, Tia took home a cheque for $278,609.18 (\u00a3209,543.64). <\/p>\n

‘I still love competing and I don\u2019t think that will ever disappear. It\u2019s fricking hard to retire. So I apologise for retiring and coming back and retiring and coming back,’ Tia said post-competition on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, she trained intensely for the Hyrox World Championships<\/a> before qualifying for the CrossFit Games through Torian Pro. <\/p>\n

In the men’s category, Jayson Hopper earned his first Fittest Man on Earth title, having appeared at the Games for five consecutive years, starting in 2021. <\/p>\n

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