Jeffrey Adler Wins the 2023 CrossFit Games

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Jeffrey Adler is the Fittest Man on Earth®. The ultimate day of the 2023 CrossFit Video games in Madison, WI, from August 1-6, noticed the Canadian CrossFitter end the comeback he mounted on the penultimate day of competitors to say the Video games throne.

The 2023 Video games had been Adler’s fifth profession look on CrossFit’s grandest stage. He’d beforehand completed within the high 5 twice — fifth in 2020 and 2022.

2023 CrossFit Video games | Jeffrey Adler Performances

Take a look at Adler’s complete efficiency on the 2023 CrossFit Video games under:

Event 1 “Experience” — Second Place
Event 2“Pig Chipper” — twenty fifth Place
Event 3“Inverted Medley” — fifteenth Place
Event 4 “The Alpaca Redux” — Eighth Place
Event 5 “Ski Bag” — Eighth Place
Event 6 “Helena” — First Place
Event 7 “Cross-Nation 5K” — Second Place
Event 8 “Intervals” — Seventh Place
Event 9 “Olympic Whole” — Fourth Place
Event 10 “Muscle-Up Logs” — First Place
Event 11 “Parallel-Bar Pull” — Seventh Place
Occasion 12 “Echo Thruster Closing” — third Place

Jeffrey Adler | Occasion-by-Occasion Recap

Adler kicked off the Video games with a runner-up end to Jonne Koski in Occasion One. After the remainder of the primary day, comprised of a end within the backside half of the sphere in Occasion Two and a middling end in Occasion Three, a high leaderboard spot for Adler appeared out of attain. However the Video games are a marathon, not a dash.

It was throughout day two of Particular person competitors that Adler started to mount his comeback: He scored back-to-back eighth-place finishes in Occasions 4 and 5, adopted by his first win of the 2023 Video games in Occasion Six.

Coming into the weekend, it appeared like a two-horse race between Adler and Roman Khrennikov, who’d led the Males’s division for almost all of the Video games as much as that time. Adler, a competitor identified for his raw strength, made vital enhancements in coaching, illustrated by his second-place end within the 5k occasion.

Adler stayed towards the highest of the sphere for Saturday’s remaining occasions. He ranked seventh in Occasion Eight and fourth in Occasion 9, the place athletes needed to complete probably the most weight potential between the clean & jerk and snatch — an occasion Adler was anticipated to position properly in. Aiding Adler’s rise to the highest was Khrennikov having his worst day of the competitors, rating seventeenth and sixteenth in Occasions Eight and 9, respectively.

Adler kicked off the remaining day of competitors together with his second win in Occasion 10. Sadly, Khrennikov suffered a foot injury because of a clumsy touchdown over one of many logs in Occasion 10. Within the penultimate occasion, Khrennikov limped on the Coliseum ground. He couldn’t apply stress to his left foot and carried out the double-unders and sled pulls on one leg. In consequence, he couldn’t end the exercise. Adler ranked seventh within the occasion.

Adler wore the chief’s jersey main into the ultimate occasion and was mathematically locked to be the Fittest Man on Earth® as Khrennikov wouldn’t be able to posting a high end whereas injured.

An amazing comeback — blended with exceptional consistency and noticeable enhancements over his 2022 capabilities — from Day Two onward resulted in Adler profitable his first-ever CrossFit Video games title.

O, Canada!

With this win, Adler is the second Canadian to win an Particular person Males’s title. The primary is James FitzGerald, who received the inaugural CrossFit Video games in 2007. This victory additionally caps off a dominant season from Adler, who took residence the highest spot at each the 2023 CrossFit Open and the North American East Semifinal earlier within the yr.