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After finding out she was two months pregnant in 2018, longtime Regional athlete Arielle Loewen retired from competitive CrossFit to focus on motherhood and take on a new set of challenges: recovering after giving birth and learning the ropes of parenthood. Unexpectedly in 2021, Loewen returned to the sport she loved, proving to herself she still had the strength and skills to be both an elite athlete and a great mother.

The number of women leaders working in sports has steadily increased over the years, but Samantha Rubin faced a number of challenges as she rose through the ranks. With stigmas still prevalent, Rubin looks forward to joining the ranks of role models for future generations of women and girls in sports and fitness.

While in his 50s, David McKay picked up CrossFit to help him train harder for Nordic ski races. But CrossFit wouldn’t just help McKay on the ski trail. A decade later, it would become a lifeline that helped him fight an aggressive form of cancer. 

Tyson Bagent has been defying the odds throughout his career. Get to know this CrossFit athlete who is living his dream as an NFL quarterback.

Hildon Carvalho qualified for the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games in the adaptive lower extremity division. The Brazilian athlete from CrossFit Park Extreme placed third overall and stood atop the podium after three grueling days of competition.

In the RV camping area at the 2023 NOBULL CrossFit Games in Madison, Wisconsin, Graciano Rubio (left) — a pro strongman athlete, Level 2 CrossFit Trainer, and owner of CrossFit ValleyView in Los Banos, California — takes on Andrew Hiller (right) in a friendly campground throwdown.

The van was upside down. Sam Briggs didn’t think. She just acted.

Join Castro on a tour of The Ranch — the location of the CrossFit Games from its inception in 2007 until 2009 when the Games got too big for Castro’s family property. Castro travels around the grounds and the large warehouse space that houses the original hopper as well as the first CrossFit Games leaderboard, still scrawled over with the handwritten scores of the first CrossFit Games athletes.

On game day, there is no predicting what an athlete will face. CrossFit can help prepare for the unknown and unknowable.

Jessica-Rose Clark, most popularly known as "Jessy Jess," is one of the most recognized MMA fighters in the world. With the help of CrossFit, she continues to dominate the MMA industry and inspire women all over the world through passion, strength, and perseverance.

Lucas Zepeda performs Age-Group Quarterfinals Test 3 at CrossFit Santa Cruz. AGQF Test 3: For time: 50 shuttle runs, 7 rope climbs, 25 bench presses, 7 rope climbs, 50 shuttle runs.

CrossFit CEO Don Faul and General Manager of Sport Dave Castro discuss the future of CrossFit and the CrossFit Games, including the growth of affiliates and the new partnership with ESPN.

“You are part of the community that embraces challenge and celebrates effort.” — Competition Director Adrian Bozman. For rising to the occasion, putting yourself out there, showing up for yourself and others, celebrating all abilities and fitness levels, and putting your best foot forward with your community — thank you for another memorable CrossFit Open season. Enjoy these highlights from the 2023 Open. We hope you took the time to celebrate!

Two CrossFit athletes took on a repeat Open Test. One beat her old score; the other didn’t. Both improved.

“What makes (the Open) worth it is all the things we’ve been talking about so far — the camaraderie, the fact that anybody can do it. What a confidence boost to take anybody who’s not athletic, isn’t particularly health-conscious, and over the course of time they can enter into something like this and see success, whatever that looks like to them. Maybe it’s just the fact that they did it … and that’s worth far more than any combination of movements that’s gonna come out of the Hopper.” — Adrian Bozman

A former professional footballer trades addiction for competition.

Why the champ risked it all to try something new.

Watch the final men’s and women’s heats go fast and furious through a couplet of Echo-bike calories and snatches in this Event 9 replay and enjoy learning more about the athletes.

Kari Pearce put on an incredible performance in Mary, beating all the other competitors on the women’s and men’s sides at the 2019 Games.

When Fraser declared he would retire from competition after the 2020 season, he opened the door to a new wave of challengers. In 2021, new and seasoned competitors marked the 15th year of the Games with 15 events designed to test the limits of human potential and their worthiness to be called the fittest. Amid the surprises, upsets, and staggering displays of incomparable athleticism, Toomey ticked on with consistency and calm like a clock in a thunderstorm, all while shattering records and securing her place as the most unbeatable athlete in CrossFit Games history. At the 2021 Games, we witnessed the return of some of the sport’s greats and the rise of the new initiates — those who will carry the mantle of the Fittest on Earth for the next generation.