by chetcromer_ut5n0x1i | Dec 5, 2017 | Athletes, BoxRox, External Posts, News, weightlifting
CJ Cummings set a new Senior (and Junior and Youth) American Record with this 141kg snatch. Unfortunately, he didn’t total at #17WWC, but he’ll be back next year! Cummings already owned the Junior and Youth American records with 139kg, but his 141kg lift broke Alex...
by chetcromer_ut5n0x1i | Dec 1, 2017 | Athletes, BoxRox, CrossFit, CrossFit Games, External Posts, News
Central and North Europe will compete in the Europe Regional and South Europe, Africa and the Middle East will compete in the Meridian Regional. There are now 18 regions (up from 17) and these are the new ones: South Europe, Central Europe, North Europe, Central...
by chetcromer_ut5n0x1i | Nov 30, 2017 | Athletes, BoxRox, CrossFit, External Posts, News, weightlifting
Four-time #CrossFitGames qualifier @ThuriHelgadottir had a day at IWF Worlds. #weightlifting #CrossFit A post shared by The CrossFit Games (@crossfitgames) on Nov 29, 2017 at 2:58pm PST Competing in the 58kg weight class, Thuri set PRs for both lifts: Snatch: 86kg...
by chetcromer_ut5n0x1i | Nov 27, 2017 | Athletes, BoxRox, CrossFit, External Posts, News
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” -Mike Tyson . I was faced with quite the challenge this week. There had been some pain in my shoulderblade ever since the ´Games´. In recent weeks the pain started to grow and I thought it was just because I...
by chetcromer_ut5n0x1i | Nov 20, 2017 | Athletes, BoxRox, External Posts, News, weightlifting
‘Weightlifter Naim Süleymanoğlu made his Olympic debut at the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. He was quickly nicknamed “The Pocket Hercules” for the combination of his short stature (1.47m or 4ft10in) and incredible display of strength. Born in Bulgaria to Turkish parents,...
by chetcromer_ut5n0x1i | Nov 5, 2017 | Athletes, BoxRox, CrossFit, External Posts, News
Canada, Canada West and The Californian Regional will be now be combined into one Regional. The remaining Regions will remain the same. This will affect Athletes such as Josh Bridges and Brent Fikowski, but will raise the standards required to make it to The 2018...
