Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr is officially the greatest CrossFit athlete of all time. Yesterday, she was crowned the 2025 CrossFit Games champion after a weekend of action in Albany, New York, bringing her winning streak to eight titles and 10 Games competition appearances.
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.
This year, UK’s Lucy Campbell 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.
‘Everything about it is unprecedented. Tia is unprecedented,’ wrote Dave Castro, 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.’
Event performance
Straight out of the gate, Tia started the weekend in characteristically dominant fashion, winning the first two events, ‘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 and handstand walks.
Her 152kg back squat placed her again in fourth place during Event 5’s one-rep max test, but the veteran quickly regained her lead following third and second-place wins for the next two events – which included 35 calories on the SkiErg and 28 chest-to-bar pull-ups – placing her as the front-runner going into the competition’s last day.
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.
A legendary triumph
‘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 (£209,543.64).
‘I still love competing and I don’t think that will ever disappear. It’s fricking hard to retire. So I apologise for retiring and coming back and retiring and coming back,’ Tia said post-competition on Sunday.
Earlier this year, she trained intensely for the Hyrox World Championships before qualifying for the CrossFit Games through Torian Pro.
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.
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