What happened during Day 1 of the 2025 CrossFit Games? Check out the top leaders, highlights from the day, and prepare for the next day of competition.
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Top 5 Leaders After Day 1
| Men | Pts | Women | Pts | Teams | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jayson Hopper | 260 | Tia-Clair Toomey | 242 | Camel City CrossFit | 335 |
| 2. | Jay Crouch | 260 | Lydia Fish | 236 | CrossFit Butcher’s Lab Vanløse | 325 |
| 3. | Roman Khrennikov | 256 | Lucy Campbell | 236 | CrossFit Mayhem | 320 |
| 4. | Ricky Garard | 240 | Madeline Sturt | 192 | CrossFit Oslo Kriger | 310 |
| 5. | Justin Medeiros | 240 | Aimee Cringle | 191 | CrossFit PRVN | 255 |
Rewatch Day 1
Highlights From the Day
Tia-Clair Toomey Wins 42nd CrossFit Games Event
As the individual athletes began to gather near the start line promptly at 7:45 a.m. at Jennings Landing, Tia-Clair Toomey found herself in unfamiliar territory. Staff were ordering the men in front and the women just behind, but from there, athletes were also ordered based on their 2025 CrossFit Open ranking.
That meant, according to Toomey’s 144th-place Open finish, she would be starting fourth from the back.
But that didn’t last long. Within one minute of the start of the event, Toomey weaved her way to the front, settling herself right behind race leader Jeffrey Adler. For most, coming out too hot in a long endurance workout is a recipe for disaster.
Not for Toomey.
In just under 25 minutes, she had finished her 4-mile run and was the first woman to her rower. Within 12 minutes, Toomey was off her 3,000-m row and onto her final run to the finish line, completing the event in 49:49.00.
“I have been running a lot this year, and it’s been a nice change for the body,” she told reporter Mike Arsenault. “I definitely think I would have given previous Tia athlete a run for her money.”
Ty Jenkins’ Transition From Teen
“This weekend definitely has a different weight,” Ty Jenkins said. “It’s no longer going in with, ‘Who do I look out for to win this event?’ It’s, ’How can I do the best I can do at every event? … This field doesn’t have holes.’”
When the three-time Fittest Teenager on Earth aged out of his division in 2024, Jenkins was thrown into a field of some of the most dominant CrossFit Games athletes of all time. His goal was no longer to win the Games — he was just hoping to qualify.
After failing to qualify last year, he recruited help from someone who knows the transition from teenage to individual divisions all too well: six-time CrossFit Games athlete Dallin Pepper.
That year of training led Jenkins to his first ticket to the CrossFit Games as an individual, and he is taking everything he learned from Pepper into his performance this weekend.
In Individual Event 2, he joined his training partner on the competition floor.
“That was a cool experience. I was hoping for at least one event we’d be on the field together,” Jenkins said. “Obviously, Dallin is a super solid athlete. Being around him and chasing him every day and seeing how he moves at the gym has really helped me.”
Jenkins finished ahead of Pepper in Event 1 with his 11th-place finish, took 23rd place in Event 2, and 13th in Event 3, landing him in 15th place heading into Day 2.
CrossFit Oslo Kriger Wins First Two Events
When Team CrossFit Oslo Kriger lined up for Team Event 2, they were sitting in first place on the leaderboard. But the 365-lb Worm that lay at the end of their lane was worrying.
“The other day in the warm-up was the first time we’ve actually used a Worm all four together,” Tola Morakyno told sideline reporter Bella Martin. “We had to adjust on the fly. We planned to do touch-and-go, and it just wasn’t going well, so we switched to singles.”
But the CrossFit Games test how well a team can adapt, so they focused on dialing in the event’s wall walks, double-unders, and toe-to-bars, and completed the 30 Worm cleans in quick, rhythmic singles. CrossFit Oslo Kriger crossed the finish line in 9:56.42.
They were the only team to finish.
The team added eight Games event wins to its resume and earned the fourth-most team event wins in CrossFit Games history.
Rookie Lydia Fish Flies Through Event 3
The last time Lydia Fish and Toomey were on the competition floor together, Toomey was in the end zone cheering her on during her final squat snatch during Event 5 at the 2024 North America East Semifinal.
This year, the 2025 CrossFit Games rookie stood in the end zone, cheering Toomey on during her final squat clean in Event 3.
Fish secured her ticket to Albany out of the Last-Chance Qualifier, earning the final women’s spot and her first CrossFit Games appearance.
After taking 12th place in Event 1 and fifth in Event 2, she was put in the third heat for the final event of the day, alongside Toomey, Arielle Loewen, and Danielle Brandon.
While all eyes were on the seasoned Games athletes, Fish pulled out in front of the pack as she soared up the pegboard and never slowed down. She led her competitors for the entirety of the event, finishing in a time of 9:30.58, winning her heat, and taking second place in the event.
Fish currently sits in second place overall heading into Day 2.
Featured Story
The Evolution of the Jump Rope in CrossFit
In the 2007 CrossFit Journal article “Jump Rope Basics,” Buddy Lee, also known as the “Jump Rope King,” praises the skill of jumping rope for its “key advantages in developing dynamic balance, speed, quickness, agility, coordination, concentration, and cardiorespiratory efficiency.”
When most people think of a jump rope, images of childhood games and playgrounds come to mind. But in CrossFit, this simple tool has undergone a dramatic transformation — from an implement to master basic skills to a critical test of athleticism on the sport’s biggest stage. Over the past two decades, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in athletes’ fitness, and the jump rope has evolved to become a symbol of skill progression, coordination, and competitive separation.
Coming Up Tomorrow
Day 2 Individual Events
IE04: Albany Grip Trip
5 rounds for time of:
400-meter run
12 deadlifts
100-foot handstand walk
*150-foot handstand walk on final round
Women: 220-lb deadlift
Men: 350-lb deadlift
IE05: 1RM Back Squat
1-rep-max back squat
IE06 & IE07:
For time:
35-calorie ski erg
28 chest-to-bar pull-ups
24 burpee box jump-overs
Women: 16-lb vest, 20-inch box
Men: 22-lb vest, 24-inch box
Starting 7 minutes after IE06:
35-calorie C2 bike
28 bar muscle-ups
24 burpee box jump-overs
Women: 20-inch box
Men: 24-inch box
Day 2 Team Events
TE5: TBA
TE6: 1RM Back Squat
1-rep-max back squat