Week 3 Semifinal highlights continue on the first three of five virtual Semifinal events: Lowlands Throwdown, German Throwdown, and the Brazil CrossFit Championship.
Video highlights for each event with featured virtual matchups can be found on the CrossFit Games YouTube channel. Check out the event highlights for Day 2 of the Week 3 Semifinals below.
Individual Event 3
Event 3 tested athletes' gymnastic prowess with 60 total muscle-ups alongside dumbbell front-rack lunges and double-unders.
CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown
The top six men going into Event 3: Henrik Haapalainen, Uldis Upenieks, Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson, Simon Mantyla, Sam Stewart and Lukas Grouleff.
Virtual matchup: Haapalainen, Upenieks, Guðmundsson, Mantyla, Stewart, and Grouleff.
Grouleff finished his first set of 30 muscle-ups in 2:06 and finished the set of 20 and 10 in a combined time of 1:55. The outstanding gymnastics performance gave him a one-minute lead going into the final set of lunges. From there he breezed through the last set of double-unders to win the event at 13:56.
More than a minute later, Guðmundsson took second at 15:17; Upenieks brought up third at 15:51.
The top six women going into Event 3: Laura Horváth, Gabriela Migała, Emma McQuaid, Annie Thorisdottir, Lucy Campbell, and Elena Carratala Sanahuja.
Virtual matchup: Horváth, Migała, McQuaid, Thorisdottir, Campbell, and Sanahuja.
McQuaid proved fitness is better with a friend, tackling Event 3 outside alongside CrossFit German Throwdown competitor Sam Briggs. McQuaid kept pace with Briggs finishing just 24 seconds behind Briggs with a time of 16:59.
But Briggs wasn’t who she needed to beat, and her time earned her an Event 3 win by more than 90 seconds.
CrossFit German Throwdown
The top six men going into Event 3: Jonne Koski, Lazar Đukić, Giorgos Karavis, Iurii Marincenco, Fabian Beneito, and Luka Đukić.
Virtual matchup: Koski, Lazar Đukić, Karavis, Marincenco, Luka Đukić, and PD Savage.
Koski was a man on a mission in Event 3.
He finished the first 30 muscle-ups in 1:56 and broke only once on the set of 20. It was smooth sailing from there as Koski took the event win 58 seconds ahead of Lazar Đukić in second.
Jonne Koski at the 2017 CrossFit Games – Photo by Ross Forte
The top six women going into Event 3: Kristin Holte, Jacqueline Dahlstrøm, Evie Hollis, Emilia Leppänen, Sam Briggs, and Katrin Davidsdottir.
Virtual matchup: Holte, Dahlstrøm, Hollis, Briggs, Davidsdottir, and Oihana Moya.
It was a close race between Holte and Briggs in the first two rounds, but Holte pulled away as she moved into her last set of muscle-ups around the 13-minute mark.
Briggs got to her final set of muscle-ups 50 seconds behind Holte, but Holte’s sprint to her dumbbells for her last set of lunges and unbroken final 100 double-unders made her the victor at 15:04.
Brazil CrossFit Championship
The top six men going into Event 3: Agustin Richelme, Guilherme Malheiros, Kaique Cerveny, Omar Martinez, Nicolas Bidarte, and Ivan Verdun.
Virtual matchup: Richelme, Malheiros, Cerveny, Martinez, Bidarte, and Verdun.
Richelme seemed to get faster as Event 3 progressed, crushing his first set of 30 ring muscle-ups in 1:58 for an early lead that he did not relinquish.
He went unbroken on the last set of muscle-ups, completing all 10 in just 32 seconds. One hundred double-unders later and he had his first event win of the competition.
The top six women going into Event 3: Larissa Cunha, Sasha Nievas, Victoria Campos, Alexia Williams, Luiza Rodriguez, and Julia Kato.
Virtual matchup: Cunha, Nievas, Campos, Williams, Rodriguez, and Amanda Fusuma.
Campos decimated the field in Event 3, breaking the muscle-ups into sets of five and never failing a rep.
Finishing at 17:39, she left the other women in the dust: Cunha took second more than three minutes later.
The win put Campos in a qualifying spot: second overall after three events.
Victoria Campos at the 2018 Pacific Regional – Photo by Ross Forte
Individual Event 4
Event 4 had only one movement: Snatches. Heavy ones.
Athletes had 10 minutes to complete 3 rounds of 10 snatches, the load increasing each round.
In the time remaining, athletes faced a max-effort snatch for reps at 165 lb. for the women and 245 lb. for the men.
CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown
The top six men going into Event 4: Guðmundsson, Upenieks, Grouleff, Haapalainen, Mundwiler, and Mueller.
Virtual matchup: Gudmunsson, Upenieks, Grouleff, Haapalainen, Mundwiler, and Mueller.
Bronislaw Olenkowicz set the score to beat going into the virtual matchups, banking 51 reps at 245 lb.
In the matchup, Mundwiler shone with a pocket full of power snatches, waiting to break parallel until the rep-out at 245. It was a good show, but Olenkowicz’s score held for first place. Ioannis Papadopoulos edged Mundwiled out with 50 reps for second, and Mundwiler’s 48 were good enough for third.
The top six women going into Event 4: McQuaid, Migała, Horváth, Thorisdottir, Thuridur Helgadottir, and Lucy Campbell.
Virtual matchup: McQuaid, Migała, Horváth, Thorisdottir, Helgadottir, and Campbell.
Migała, Thorisdottir and Horváth went a combined 14 for 14 lifts in the final minute of Event 4. Horváth dug deep, saving her final lift in the closing seconds after a near miss and taking her second event win of the weekend. Just 1 rep behind her were Thorisdottir and Migała, each of whom snuck in 1 final rep with just seconds remaining.
CrossFit German Throwdown
After three events, Koski, Lazar Đukić, Karavis, Kotoulas, Luka Đukić, and Marincenco were the top six male athletes.
Virtual matchup: Koski, Lazar Đukić, Karavis, Luka Đukić, Marincenco, and Beneito.
Lazar Đukić demonstrated some veteran strategy in his race with Koski. Đukić performed touch-and-go reps through 7 of his snatches at 185
By shifting his technique early, performing 7 of his 185 lb. snatches as touch-and-go reps and then switching to 3 full snatch singles to finish the set, Đukić prepared for the heavier loads and kept himself four points ahead of Koski by finishing at the top of the virtual heat. But it was Boris Judin who took the overall event win with 48 reps.
Holte, Dahlstrøm, Briggs, Leppänen, Davidsdottir, and Hollis were at the top of the women’s leaderboard going into Event 4.
Virtual matchup: Holte, Dahlstrøm, Davidsdottir, Hollis, Emma Tall, and Antea Longo.
Event 4 was an epic liftoff between Davidsdottir and Dahlstrøm.
Davidsdottir jumped out to an early lead, but Dahlstrøm was close behind, closing the gap in the final round. Still, Davidsdottir managed onefinal lift in the last 6 seconds, winning the event with 51 reps — just one more than Dahlstrøm, who took second in the event.
Brazil CrossFit Championship
Richelme, Martinez, Cerveny, Malheiros, Bidarte, and Primo were the top six men going into Event 4.
Virtual matchup: Richelme, Martinez, Cerveny, Malheiros, Bidarte, and Primo.
It was a close race between Malheiros, Primo, and Cerveny.
But then Cerveny misloaded his bar in the final round and missed a lift. It was too much ground to make up; meanwhile, Malheiros hit three good lifts in 30 seconds. He narrowly took the event with 48 reps, 1 more than Primo and Cerveny in second and third with 47 reps each.
Cunha, Campos, Nievas, Fusuma, Dias, and Julia Kato were the top six women after three events on Day 2.
Virtual matchup: Cunha, Campos, Nievas, Dias, Fusuma, and Kato.
Amanda Fusuma – Photo by @luizmlivramento
A bronze medalist in weightlifting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, Nievas never missed a lift, hitting 21 reps at the final bar for the best score with the fastest tiebreak time of both the men’s and women’s field this weekend.
Campos finished outside the top 10 in the event, giving space for Nievas to overtake her on the overall leaderboard by 50 points. Nievas and Cunha finished the day in a tie for first.
Team Event 3
Team Event 3 was a maze of “we go, you go” work split between male and female pairs: synchronized double dumbbell front-rack lunges, double-unders, and muscle-ups with decreasing reps and distance throughout the event.
CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown
The top six teams going into Event 3 were Team CrossFit Holistic, CrossFit Nordic, Team Aarhus CrossFit, Team Genius, Bergen Limitless, and CrossFit 8020.
In this matchup, the race was between CrossFit Nordic and Motion, the former nipping at the latter’s heels at every turn.
Still, Motion held the Swedes off and won the event at 12:58 — the only sub-13 time of the field. CrossFit Nordic followed 8 seconds later for second place.
CrossFit German Throwdown
CrossFit Oslo Wolfpack, The Athlete Program, Team CrossFit Genas, AOD Fitness, Team Butchers Lab, and Team Boundary were the top six teams going into event three.
Team CrossFit Genas got to its final set of ring-muscle ups at 12:00 and took just 37 seconds to finish the final 10 reps. CrossFIt Oslo Wolfpack moved into its last set of ring-muscle ups just as Team CrossFit Genas finished and from there would complete their final set of ring-muscle ups in 49 seconds good enough for third in the event with a time of 13:26. CrossFit Genas’ time of 12:37 earned them the event win followed just four seconds behind by From the Port in second.
Brazil CrossFit Championship
FourMixx Brazil, CrossFit Villa Luro, Q21, Team Treta, Ignorantes, and Team Samurai were the top six teams after going into the third event.
FourMixx Brazil didn't even need the full 25-minute time cap finishing Event 3 with a time of 12:50 for the event win. Q21 took a close second, finishing just 17 seconds after FourMixx Brazil.
Team Event 4
Team Event 4 made its debut at the Mid-Atlantic CrossFit Challenge and the Granite Games during Weeks 1 and 2 of Semifinals. The event calls for max snatches and clean and jerks, one each for the men and women.
CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown
The top six teams going into Event 4 were CrossFit Nordic, Team CrossFit Holistic, Motion, Team Aarhus CrossFit, Bergen Limitless, and CrossFit 8020.
It was back-to-back victories on Day 2 for Motion as the team followed its Event 3 win with another that afternoon.
The team put up a total of 1,023 lb., 30 lb. more than Team Butchers Lab T-Bone, who took second in the event.
CrossFit German Throwdown
CrossFit Oslo Wolfpack, Team CrossFit Genas, The Athlete Program, AOD Fitness, From the Port, and Team Butchers Lab were the top six teams going into Event 4.
Every pound makes a difference.
Just ask CrossFit Oslo Wolfpack. The team out lifted AOD Fitness by just 4lb. for a total of 1,007 lb. and taking the event win.
Brazil CrossFit Championship
After three events, FourMixx Brazil, Q21, CrossFit Villa Luro, Team Treta, Team Samurai, and CFP9 were at the top of the leaderboard Saturday afternoon.
Q21 Team – Photo by @maxaznarez
FourMixx Brazil refuses to back down. The team took its third event win with a total of 1,000 lb. CrossFit Villa Luro finished second in the event with a total of 986 lb., followed by Team Punk in third with 984 lb.
Cover photo by @vicmcleod