A handful of athletes completely dominated this 12 months’s Open.
Final up to date on March twenty sixth, 2025
Wall walks, strolling lunges, thrusters, snatches — you title it. The 2025 CrossFit Open had all of it, and now that it’s over, we are able to look again on an thrilling three weeks.
Every week, 1000’s joined the CrossFit HQ livestream to view the Open announcement and study what exercise would eat the subsequent three to 4 days of their life. (Or possibly that was simply me?)
The group witnessed large moments of their associates and on the elite degree. Whereas there have been numerous recollections to remove from this 12 months’s Open, we whittled them right down to our 5 favorites.
Colten Mertens’ Total Domination
Colten Mertens missed out on the 2024 CrossFit Video games by two spots and returned this season with a hearth in his stomach.
When his rating appeared on the 25.1 leaderboard, it was beautiful. The scorecard stopped at 10 rounds, however Mertens proceeded to finish spherical 10 and get 11 reps into spherical 11. He completed with the profitable rating of 361 reps.
Mertens’ domination continued into 25.2 and 25.3, the place he took first and second place, respectively.
- Mertens is setting the bar excessive for his 2025 season. Followers can see him subsequent on the invite-only Mayhem Traditional, which will likely be held April 5-6 in Cookeville, TN.
Dallin Pepper’s 25.3 Efficiency
The third week of the Open was a gnarly mixture of rowing, wall walks, and barbell biking.
Dallin Pepper, nonetheless, appeared unbothered. The previous teen phenom did the 25.3 announcement alongside pals and fellow rivals Jayson Hopper and James Sprague.
Pepper and Hopper each began out scorching, however Pepper chipped away on the lead slowly, profitable the Open announcement and the occasion general.
- Probably the most spectacular half was that Pepper’s time on the exercise held up and beat out each single different particular person within the males’s division. He completed the exercise in 9:21 and took second place within the Open general.
Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr Performs a Prank
Seven-time CrossFit Video games champion Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr posted a suspicious video of her 25.1 effort, wherein she stood nonetheless for the primary three minutes whereas the clock ran earlier than posting her rating to the leaderboard. Not lengthy after it was posted, Toomey-Orr revealed that it was all in good enjoyable.
- The video was truly a showdown between Toomey-Orr and her husband, Shane Orr, PRVN’s head coach, who had a three-minute head begin. Each of them used the boys’s Rx normal of a 50-pound dumbbell to see if she may beat him even with that handicap. She posted a rating of 229 reps however later modified her rating to 287. She got here in 144th place within the Open worldwide.
Mirjam von Rohr Wins Her Second Open
After coming in 13,249th place on the Open again in 2021, Swiss athlete Mirjam von Rohr has made a reputation for herself by profitable the entire thing in 2024 and 2025.
She didn’t simply squeak by, both. Von Rohr took first place in each 25.1 and 25.2, together with her “worst” end being eleventh in 25.3.
- The 2025 Open champion (and HYROX star) is understood for her super athletic endeavors, together with doing 1,000 wall balls and 100 unbroken thrusters for time.
Von Rohr got here to play this season and will likely be an athlete to observe because the 12 months unfolds.
Charge Saghafi on Her Personal Phrases
Feeroozeh Saghafi, identified to most as Charge, had an outstanding Open efficiency, taking second place general in a stacked girls’s discipline.
In a video on the Brute Power YouTube web page, she shared that she has shifted her mindset and motive for pursuing CrossFit to align higher together with her objectives. She additionally mentioned she stopped faculty to pursue the game full-time.
- Her private shift and transfer to Naples, FL, to coach with Brute Power paid off. Saghafi was constant all through the whole Open and had top-ten finishes in all three exercises. Her high end was in 25.1, wherein she took third place.
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