The 2025 CrossFit Games Field Comes Into Focus

June 4th, 2025

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

  • Four Qualifying Events. One epic weekend. Eight key takeaways you may have missed.

  • Beyond the six-pack — build a core that actually performs.

  • Scotland’s Jennifer Muir punches first-ever Games ticket.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
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I remembered seeing Brent Fikowski do a split clean back when I was on his team at FitFest in 2023, and I thought: maybe I could try a split snatch?”

Jennifer Muir went on to use this technique for all 30 reps of “Heavy Isabel” at Wodland. She missed qualification there, but earned a Games spot through CrossFit’s Semifinals.
CROSSFIT GAMES

8 Big Takeaways From a Jam-Packed “Super Semis” Weekend

Credit: @_zeus.photography_ / Instagram

Last weekend, fans of the CrossFit Games season experienced the busiest competition schedule in recent memory, with four concurrent In-Person Qualifying Events (IPQEs) taking place. If you missed the action from Brisbane, Australia, to Knoxville, TN, we’ve got you covered below.

  • At this stage of the season, we now know 27 out of 30 athletes in both the men’s and women’s fields at the 2025 CrossFit Games. There is one final IPQE next weekend, the Northern California Classic, and the online Last Chance Qualifier later this month.  

Tia Closes a Chapter

In an emotional post-event interview, Toomey-Orr reflected on how the Torian Pro launched her career with a win in 2015.

Ten years later, she’s still at the top.

  • She won five out of six events and placed second in the other, completing a decade of dominance down under.

Whether or not she competes for her eighth title in Albany (which she will), this is far from the end of her athletic journey.

Next, she will head to Chicago for the Hyrox Doubles World Championship with teammate Joanna Wietrzyk, after the duo qualified by breaking the world record. She will then have six weeks to prepare for the Games.

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MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

Why Functional Abs Are Better Than Instagram Abs – And How to Build Them

Courtesy of Pamela Gagnon

Just because you see an athlete with a six-pack doesn’t mean they know how to use the power of those muscles functionally. 

What does that even mean?

A sport like CrossFit requires athletes to use core-to-extremity strength to build tension, which ultimately serves as the power behind dynamic skills. We observe this in movements that utilize kipping, such as the kipping pull-up or toes-to-bar, and even Olympic lifts like the split jerk, where it's essential to engage your core to establish a solid base of power, then press through your extremities to drop under the barbell and stabilize.

So, while a six-pack looks great, let’s help you build functional abs to enhance your performance as a functional fitness athlete.

PROFILE

Scotland’s Jennifer Muir Is WFP Crowned and Games Bound

Credit: Scott Freymond

Like many athletes this season competing for a chance to qualify for the 2025 CrossFit Games, Jennifer Muir faced three consecutive weekends of competition this spring.

Her first stop was the Wodland Fest in Málaga, Spain, where she completed Heavy Isabel by performing 30 split snatches (more on that later).

She then tackled the In-Affiliate Semifinals the following weekend. A week later, she stood atop the Challenger Division podium at the inaugural World Fitness Project, winning after three days of competition with a 72-point margin.

  • Less than 24 hours later, as she was about to board a plane home to Scotland, she glanced at the Semifinal leaderboard. She was thrilled to see that her name had moved to an unofficial qualifying position for the Games. 

Her sacrifices, dedication, and years of effort were finally paying off.

HIGHLIGHTS

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  • 🎂Happy birthday to Sasha Nievas.

  • Happy belated birthday (6/2) to Jackson Terry.

  • Congratulations to Morning Chalk Up writer Teaganne Finn and her team from CrossFit Union Square, who competed at Syndicate Crown last weekend.

  • Congratulations to Maddox Metcalf, who just PRed his split jerk at 142 kilos/315 pounds.

  • 🙌Congratulations to Maria of Brazil on this 102 kilo/225 pound clean PR.