Urankar and Charron Win 15.1/15.1a

March 3, 2015

CrossFit

The world's overall leaders will take home the $2015 prize this week.

The world's overall leaders will take home the $2015 prize this week.
 

The first week of the 2015 Reebok CrossFit Games Open is done.

Over the last four days, more than 272,000 athletes competed in the 15-minute, two-part workout consisting of a 9-minute AMRAP of toes-to-bars, deadlifts and snatches (15.1), immediately followed by a 6-minute window to set a 1-rep-max clean and jerk (15.1a).

This week, the $2,015 prize will be awarded to the man and woman who lead the overall worldwide leaderboard. That man is Nick Urankar, and that woman is Maude Charron. 

These two regional competitors bested the performances of Games elite.

Charron earned the top spot by finishing 7 full rounds plus 13 toes-to-bars on the triplet, before clean and jerking 240 lb. The 21-year-old athlete took 6th place at the 2014 Canada East Regional last May.

Urankar finished within a couple reps of Rich Froning and Mat Fraser on the triplet (228 reps), and followed that with a 375-lb. clean and jerk, which beat Froning and Fraser by 25 lb. and earned him the overall win. Urankar qualified for the Games in 2011, and in the years since has been a contender for a Games-qualifying spot out of the incredibly competitive Central East Regional.

The next workout will be released Thursday at 5 p.m. PT. Come to Games.CrossFit.com to watch the livestream of Open Workout 15.2 in Austin, Texas, presented by Airrosti. Immediately after Dave Castro announces the workout, Michele Letendre (4th at the 2014 Games) and Emily Bridgers (6th at the 2014 Games) will set the scores to beat.