38 Yr Old Becca Voigt Competes With Broken Thumb – Still Qualifies for Her 10th Individual CrossFit Games!

Becca Voigt qualifies for her 10th CrossFit Games as an individual!

The 38 year old athlete began day 3 sitting in 10th place and 44 points outside of a qualifying spot.

In Event 5 she finished in 3rd which brought her up the leaderboard to 6th position. She then fought her way up into the 5th qualifying position! She even had a broken thumb to contend with throughout the entire competition! What a legend.

West Regionals Women

Becca Voigt: “I think it’s just really impressive to see the evolution. … We get to push all these youngsters. There’s a girl who is literally 20 years younger than me.”

When you run out of fingers, you call on a training partner. – This year, @beccavoigt will compete in the CrossFit Games for the 11th time. She’s qualified 9 times as an individual and twice as a masters athlete. Unlike @nealmaddox—who told me he would compete as a master no matter what this year—Voigt said she’d absolutely give up her masters spot if she finished in the top 5 this weekend. – “If I earn that spot, I’m taking that spot.” – Voigt is competing with a broken thumb, which she was icing before this picture with @delts_like_dot. She hurt it in practice when a dropped dumbbell bounced back up. – Voigt is currently 10th, and Morentin is 18th. – I asked the most experienced Games athlete in the world to reflect on the growth of the sport. – “I think it’s just really impressive to see the evolution. … We get to push all these youngsters. There’s a girl who is literally 20 years younger than me.” – That would be 18-year-old @sequoia_bar, and Voigt is ahead of her. Barrera is 31st. – #legend – @crossfit204 #CrossFitGames #WestRegional #Regionals2018 #CrossFitPhotoJournal @CrossFitGames

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SCHEDULE FOR THE 2018 CROSSFIT REGIONALS

There have been some big changes made to the CrossFit Games Regional format in 2018. Get all the details here.

Week 3: June 1-3, 2018

Atlantic Regional: West Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach County Convention Center
Meridian Regional: Madrid, Spain, Caja Mágica
Pacific Regional: Sydney, Australia, Qudos Bank Arena

CrossFit 2018 Regionals

For more information about the CrossFit Regionals, the following text is from games.crossfit.com.

The fittest men, women and teams from each region of the world advance to the second stage of the CrossFit Games season: the Regionals.

CrossFit splits the world into 18 regions. There are eight regions in the United States (North East, Mid Atlantic, South East, Central East, North Central, South Central, West Coast and South West) and 10 international regions (Canada East, Canada West, South America, Central America, Asia, Australasia, Middle East Africa, Europe North, Europe South and Europe Central). Athletes are placed in their region during Open registration based on their residence as of Jan. 1 of that year.

To qualify, the Regional competitors have to prove they are their region’s fittest athletes by competing in the five-week, five-workout online Open and finishing well in the overall standings. The number of athletes who qualify from each region varies and the 18 regions feed into nine Regional competitions, as broken down below.

East Regional

– North East (25 individuals, 20 teams to qualify from Open)

– Canada East (15 individuals, 10 teams to qualify from Open)

Atlantic Regional

– Mid Atlantic (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

– South East (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

Central Regional

– Central East (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

– North Central (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

South Regional

– South West (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

– South Central (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

West Regional

– West Coast (35 individuals, 25 teams to qualify from Open)

– Canada West (5 individuals, 5 teams to qualify from Open)

Latin America Regional

– Central America (15 individuals, 10 teams to qualify from Open)

– South America (25 individuals, 20 teams to qualify from Open)

Europe Regional

– Europe North (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

– Europe Central (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

Meridian Regional

– Europe South (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

– Middle East Africa (20 individuals, 15 teams to qualify from Open)

Pacific Regional

– Asia (10 individuals, 7 teams to qualify from Open)

– Australasia (30 individuals, 23 teams to qualify from Open)

Forty men, 40 women and 40 teams will advance to the 2018 Reebok CrossFit Games. Those spots are divvied up among the nine Regionals as follows:

The top five men, women and teams will advance from the East, Atlantic, Central, South, West, Europe and Pacific Regionals.
The top four men, women and teams will advance from the Meridian Regional.
The top male, female and team will advance from the Latin America Regional.

All Regional competitors face the same workouts, whether they’re in Del Mar, California, or Madrid, Spain.

Competitors care about how they place relative to their peers at their Regional, since that’s what determines how many points they earn and where they’ll rank in the overall standings. Claiming first in an event earns an athlete 100 points, second earns 95 points, third 90, fourth 85, fifth 80 and sixth 75. The scale then drops by 2-point increments for seventh through 30th, and then by 1-point increments from 30th through 50th. The athlete with the most points will claim first in the overall standings; the top five athletes overall at the end of the weekend earn the right to advance to the CrossFit Games.

All Games qualifiers will receive a piece of the season’s prize purse. All cash prizes are paid in U.S. dollars.

Individual Division (men and women receive equal prize money)

First Place: $300,000
Second Place: $100,000
Third Place: $75,000
Fourth Place: $50,000
Fifth Through Eighth Place: $35,000, $30,000, $27,000 and $25,000, respectively
Ninth Through 20th Place: $23,000, $21,000, $18,000, $16,000, $14,000, $13,000, $12,000, $11,000, $10,000, $9,000, $8,000 and $7,000, respectively