Alethea Boon is a five-year CrossFit Games competitor (Three individual, one team,one masters) with a best individual finish of 20th in 2015. Little more than a year after she started CrossFit, she helped team CrossFit Active to a sixth-place finish at the 2014 Reebok CrossFit Games. A former elite gymnast, Boon represented New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and 2002, and was a reserve member of the New Zealand gymnastics team at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2018 Boon returned to the Commonwealth Games for a third appearance but as an Olympic Weightlifter 20 years after her first gymnastics debut.