Ties Broken, Titles Pursued in Day 2 Adaptive Competition

July 29, 2021

Madison Dorn

The adaptive athletes took on the Event 4 chipper and Event 5 swim in a continued battle for points and fitness glory.
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Note: All point totals and standings on the leaderboard are unofficial and subject to change.

Two days down and one to go for the adaptive divisions at the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games. Here’s what the athletes had in store for them on Day 2. 

Adaptive Divisions Event 4 DetailsAdaptive Divisions Event 5 Details

Men’s Lower Extremity

Thirty-year-old Ole Kristian Antonsen sat atop of the leaderboard going into Day 2 and after two more events is still on top. Following two first-place finishes on Day 1, Antonsen kicked off Day 2 with his third event win. He made quick work of his 168-foot handstand walk and pulled away from the rest of the pack for the Event 4 win. Antonsen’s third-place finish in Event 5 was good enough to keep him not only in the lead but 50 points ahead of second place. 

Event 5 was a tight race between 25-year-old Séraphin Périer and 28-year-old Felipe Maturana Infante. Périer played water polo at the national level before finding CrossFit and it showed. He looked comfortable in the water throughout the 300-meter swim. But Infante looked just as comfortable as the two competitors raced to the finish. Périer and Infante tied for first in the event with a time of 4:40.00. 

Day 2 Men’s Lower Extremity Standings

  1. Ole Kristian Antonsen (410)
  2. Séraphin Périer (360)
  3. Felipe Maturana Infante (320)
  4. Elliot Young (260)

Women's Lower Extremity

Valerie Cohen was three for three in event wins going into Day 2. Cohen continued her dominance and picked up her fourth event win in Event 4. She was the only woman to finish under the time cap and picked up another 100 points. While the rest of the field faced an insurmountable obstacle in the handstand walk, every single competitor remained relentless and kept fighting until the final buzzer sounded. 

Event 5 in this division was the definition of a tight race. All five competitors finished the 300-meter swim within less than one minute of each other, and it came down to just seconds between first and third place. 

1. Natalie Bieule — 6:43.00

2. Beth Tannatt — 6:44.00

3. Valerie Cohen — 6:45.00

Day 2 Women’s Lower Extremity Standings

  1. Valerie Cohen (455)
  2. Natalie Bieule (340)
  3. Beth Tannatt (295)
  4. Sarah Rudder (235)
  5. Amy Bream (195)
Valerie Cohen
Cohen takes on the Event 4 chipper. (Photo by Charlotte Foerschler)

Men’s Upper Extremity

Casey Acree kicked off Day 2 with his third event win. Acree put some distance between himself and the rest of the field early on and made quick work of his overhead lunges. The battle for second and third was between 22-year-old Josue Maldonado and 29-year-old Xabier Osa Mendes. Osa Mendes started to pull away on the final length of overhead walking lunges but had to break just before the finish line, allowing Maldonado to take second place by just five seconds. 

Acree and Maldonado went back and forth in Event 5, but Acree edged out Maldonado by just 18 hundredths of a second and took his fourth event win. After two days of competition, Acree is sitting atop the leaderboard, 50 points up over Maldonado. 

Day 2 Men’s Upper Extremity Standings

  1. Casey Acree (355)
  2. Josue Maldonado (305)
  3. Logan Aldridge (200)
  4. Xabier Osa Mendes (160)
  5. Victor Castro (100)

Women’s Upper Extremity

Thirty-two-year-old Eileen Quinn went two for two on Day 2. She made quick work on the bike erg and flew through her overhead walking lunges in Event 4. Her 12:53.16 finish earned her her first event win of the competition. She followed that up with a second event win in Event 5. 

Quinn held off Day 1 leader Sabrina Daniela Lopez by just five seconds to take the event win and 100 more points to close out Day 2, but Lopez remains in the overall lead heading into Day 3. 

Day 2 Women’s Upper Extremity Standings

  1. Sabrina Daniela Lopez (350)
  2. Elizabeth Bride (265) | Eileen Quinn (265)
  3. Anne Laure Coutenceau (180)
  4. Charlotte Coburn (60) 

Men’s Neuromuscular

Twenty-five-year-old Brett Horchar sat atop the leaderboard going into Day 2 and he continued his streak with back-to-back event wins on Wednesday. Horchar has a 220-point lead over 33-year-old Jcruz Gudino, who holds on in second. 

Day 2 Men’s Neuromuscular Standings

  1. Brett Horchar (475)
  2. Jcruz Gudino (255)
  3. Sylvania Harrod (240)
  4. Mijail Pedrini (240)
  5. George Simonds-Gooding (215)

Women’s Neuromuscular

Three women were tied for first place going into Day 2 — Alisha Davis, Shannon Ogar, and Letchen Du Plessis. Davis picked up the first 100 points of the day in Event 4. She shared in an interview following the event that chippers are her favorite style of workout. Cardio is her strength, and in Event 4, it showed. 

In Event 5, Du Plessis took her second event win. Her water polo background likely also helped her cruise to victory as she completed her 300-meter swim in 4:41.00 — the fastest time across all the women’s adaptive divisions. 

Day 2 Women’s Neuromuscular Standings

  1. Alisha Davis (290)
  2. Shannon Ogar (265)
  3. Letchen Du Plessis (225)
  4. Rebecca Shingledecker (180) | Ebby Isbill (180)
Women's Neuromuscular Division on Day 2
From left to right: Shannon Ogar, Letchen Du Plessis, Ebby Isbill, Rebecca Shingledecker, and Alisha Davis (Photo by Duke Loren Photography)

Cover photo by Charlotte Foerschler