What happened during Day 2 of the 2025 CrossFit Games? Check out the top leaders, best moments from the day, and prepare for the next day of competition.
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Top Five Leaders After Day 2
MEN
- Jayson Hopper — 539 points
- Ricky Garard — 529 points
- James Sprague — 516 points
- Jay Crouch — 506 points
- Dallin Pepper — 501 points
WOMEN
- Tia-Clair Toomey — 610 points
- Lucy Campbell — 541 points
- Arielle Loewen — 456 points
- Mirjam Von Rohr — 449 points
- Aimee Cringle — 447 points
TEAMS
- CrossFit Oslo Kriger — 475 points
- CrossFit Mayhem — 475 points
- CrossFit Butcher’s Lab Vanløse — 465 points
- CrossFit Franco’s EMOM Co — 420 points
- Camel City CrossFit — 415 points
Rewatch Day 2
Highlights From Day 2
Lucy Campbell: ‘Resilience Feels a lot Like Vulnerability’
On March 9, 2023, Lucy Campbell posted on her Instagram, “Finding out you did a whole season and won two events at the CrossFit Games with a broken wrist.”
She had just found out she had fractured her lunate bone over a year prior. Two years ago, she underwent her final surgery and has been rehabbing ever since.
But this year, Campbell is back and ready to show the work she put in every day, despite the uncertainty, setbacks, and frustration.
She finished the CrossFit Open in third overall, secured her second ticket to the CrossFit Games with her first-place finish at the WodLand Fest In-Person Qualifier, and after Day 1 of the Games, she was sitting in a podium position on the leaderboard.
So, to start Day 2, Campbell was placed right next to Tia-Clair Toomey for Individual Event 4, which included 5 rounds of 400-meter runs, 220-lb deadlifts with a thick bar, and handstand walking.
It looked as though the duo were told to complete the workout synchronized, as Toomey and Campbell were side-by-side for the first 3 rounds. But Campbell pulled ahead in Round 4, taking advantage of Toomey’s break on her final stretch of handstand walking.
With Toomey in her rearview mirror, Campbell stepped on the gas and completed her final round by 16:33.05, over 30 seconds ahead of second-place finisher Haley Adams.
This may be Campbell's third career event win, but she was awarded the leader’s jersey for the first time.
“When you’re in it, resilience feels a lot like vulnerability,” Campbell told sideline reporter Mike Arsenault. “There is a lot of narrative that to be mentally tough, you have to ignore all of the hard feelings. And actually I think it’s the opposite. You have to acknowledge it.”
Moving Day
Team Event 5 was a grueling 6-round gauntlet that tested communication, coordination, and grit, combining synchro chest-to-bar pull-ups, synchro bar muscle-ups, and the punishing Worm clean over-and-backs. In a test of brute strength and flawless timing, teams had to clean the Worm, press it overhead, catch it on the opposite shoulder, and get it back to the original shoulder before dropping it to complete the rep. It was a challenge of rhythm that demanded total team unity.
CrossFit 1124 of Marietta, Georgia, threw down in Heat 1 with a strong finish of 16:59.45, setting the score to beat. But in Heat 2, CrossFit Oslo Kriger of Norway was untouchable. With the veteran presence of Kristin Holte and Tola Morakinyo alongside 2024 team athlete Oda Lundekvam and three-time Semifinals athlete Victor Helsinghof, the team dominated the heat, clocking in at 15:56.30 — the team’s ninth career event win and third first-place finish of the competition.
Moving day was in full effect on Day 2 of the Games as Camel City CrossFit, which was sitting in first overall heading into the event, slipped with a seventh-place finish. CrossFit Butcher’s Lab, on the other hand, surged with a second-place event finish, overtaking Camel City and seizing the top spot on the leaderboard heading into the final event of the day.
The Iron Hog’s Record-Breaking Back Squat
The last time a CrossFit Games athlete broke the back-squat record, the Games were still held at The Ranch in Aromas, California.
Connor Banks’ 540-lb back squat from the 2007 CrossFit Games had survived 18 years.
But today, that record was broken — by 30 lb.
Five-time CrossFit Games athlete and farmer Colten Mertens had a rocky start to the 2025 CrossFit Games. When he stepped onto the floor for Event 5, he was sitting in 20th place on the leaderboard.
But in true Mertens fashion, he put 525 lb on the bar for his first attempt. Controlling the bar to the bottom of his squat and swiftly gliding it back up, the crowd erupted in excitement.
He was just getting started.
For his second attempt, Mertens put 555 lb on the bar, 15 lb more than the current record. And again, he easily glides the bar down and back up.
By Mertens’ final attempt, he had a massive 570 lb on the bar, sending the crowd into an uproar of cheers. Once again, he successfully completed his lift, leaving no doubt that he would be taking home the much-needed event win.
“I underestimated the bump I was going to get from the crowd a little bit — 570 felt the same as 400 did on my back,” Mertens told sideline reporter Mike Arsenault.
He was then asked about his rough start to the weekend.
“Yeah, Day 1 sucked,” he said, followed by a roar of laughter in the crowd. “I’ve got to get my ass to work and get back up that leaderboard.”
Mertens assured everyone that there are still 200 points left on the table today. The Iron Hog is not done yet. With an 11th-place finish in Event 6 and a second-place finish in Event 7, he will be heading into Day 3 in 11th place.
Lifting Heavy
Day 2 for the teams ended with a 1-rep-max back squat — 5 minutes for the women, followed immediately by 5 minutes for the men to squat the heaviest weight possible.
Heat 1 delivered standout performances. CrossFit Hendersonville’s Rebekah Devine opened with 365 lb, surpassing individual athlete Mirjam Von Rohr’s winning lift by 5 lb. She continued, successfully lifting 385 lb before missing a 400-lb attempt.
On the men’s side, Griffin Roelle, of CrossFit Undivided, easily squatted 565 lb, just 5 lb less than Colten Mertens’ record-setting 570-lb squat. Roelle later expressed he could have — and should have — gone heavier.
Thousands of pounds later, CrossFit Undivided took the win, collectively squatting 1,735 lb, 80 lb more than second-place CrossFit Body Blueprint and third-place CrossFit 1124. The strong showing from Undivided could be a turning point for the team that has struggled in the competition so far.
Don’t sleep on the teams – with just two events left, you don’t want to miss the action.
Featured Story
Inside the Programming of the 2025 CrossFit Games Events
For the last 19 years, the CrossFit Games have set out to answer one question: “Who is the Fittest on Earth?”
General Manager of Sport Dave Castro has spent the last year strategically programming and testing each of the 10 events featured at the 2025 CrossFit Games to answer that question.
How? Utilizing the root of the CrossFit methodology.
Follow the journey Castro and his team take in deciding every rep, movement, and combination that goes into the programming of the 2025 CrossFit Games events.
Coming Up Tomorrow
Individual Events
IE8: Going Dark
50/40 calories on the Echo bike
100-foot yoke carry
30 deficit handstand push-ups
100-foot yoke carry
50/40 calories on the Echo bike
IE9: Running Isabel
5 rounds for time of:
200-foot run
6 snatches
Women: 105 lb
Men: 155 lb
IE10: Atlas
For time:
9/15/21 thrusters
3/5/7 rope climbs
Then,
100-foot overhead walking lunge
Women: 95 lb
Men: 135 lb
Team Events
TE7: All on the Line
For time:
100-foot handstand walk, each
30 deadlifts (805 lb)
30/25 calories on the Echo bike (M/F Pair 1)
30 wall-facing strict handstand push-ups (M/F Pair 2)
30/25 calories on the Echo bike (M/F Pair 2)
30 wall-facing strict handstand push-ups (M/F Pair 1)
30 deadlifts (805 lb)
100-foot handstand walk, each
TE8: It All Adds Up
TBA
Important Resources
- View the Schedule
- View the Leaderboard
- View the Events
- How to Watch the 2025 CrossFit Games
- A Guide to the Spectator Experience