{"id":416429,"date":"2026-07-29T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416429\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:31:16","slug":"hermantown-athlete-places-4th-at-adaptive-crossfit-games-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/416429\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermantown athlete places 4th at Adaptive CrossFit Games in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HERMANTOWN, Minn. (Northern News Now) &#8211; Jake Meyer, a Hermantown athlete who trains at Black Spruce CrossFit, placed fourth in his division at the Adaptive CrossFit Games in San Jose, California, this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernnewsnow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/jake-is-beast-hermantown-athlete-qualifies-adaptive-crossfit-games-community-plans-fundraiser\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.northernnewsnow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/jake-is-beast-hermantown-athlete-qualifies-adaptive-crossfit-games-community-plans-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.northernnewsnow.com\/2026\/06\/16\/jake-is-beast-hermantown-athlete-qualifies-adaptive-crossfit-games-community-plans-fundraiser\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Adaptive CrossFit Games is considered the top competition in the sport. Meyer, who has Down syndrome, received community donations to help cover the costs of competing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Jake Meyer practices his deadlift during a recent class at Black Spruce CrossFit.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LXV4BMJZTREZXDII55HDLVL4DU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Jake Meyer practices his deadlift during a recent class at Black Spruce CrossFit.(Northern News Now)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Meyer and his teammates at Black Spruce CrossFit thanked supporters for their contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernnewsnow.com\/page\/how-to-stream-northern-news-now-for-free\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.northernnewsnow.com\/page\/how-to-stream-northern-news-now-for-free\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the Northern News Now app or our Northern News Now First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Northern News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HERMANTOWN, Minn. (Northern News Now) &#8211; Jake Meyer, a Hermantown athlete who trains at Black Spruce CrossFit, placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[166598,166600,166601,166599,166597,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-416429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-adaptive-crossfit-games","tag-black-spruce-crossfit","tag-down-syndrome-athlete","tag-hermantown-athlete","tag-jake-meyer-crossfit","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}