Can they pull off the clear sweep?
Final up to date on March twelfth, 2025
Cease me in the event you’ve heard this earlier than: Colten Mertens and Mirjam von Rohr are this week’s winners of the CrossFit Open exercise.
- For an unprecedented third time, von Rohr, the Swiss tremendous athlete, and Mertens, the world’s fittest pig farmer, sat atop the worldwide leaderboard on the shut of 25.2. This comes only a week after the duo pulled off the 25.1 win.
Mertens was 11 seconds quicker than runner-up Agustin Richelme at 4:12, who beat out third-place finisher Austin Hatfield by 4 seconds.
Von Rohr bested second-place finisher Erica Folo by 10 seconds. Folo, in flip, was one second quicker than Anikha Greer in third. For the second straight week, Charge Saghafi and Colin Bosshard completed within the prime 5 and sit in second total with seven factors every.
Remind me: Open exercise 25.2 was a repeat of twenty-two.3 again in 2022. The primary time round, Mertens recorded the fourth-fastest time of 4:24. That was comparatively far off from Scott Tetlow, who received the unique at a blazing 4:07.
Three years later, Mertens shaved off 23 seconds, setting the brand new world file with a ridiculous time of 4:01.
Whereas von Rohr’s time of 4:18 was 10 seconds quicker than Folo, the next seven locations had been separated by solely 9 seconds.
Von Rohr accomplished 25.2 a full minute and 37 seconds quicker than again in 2022, displaying her speedy progress as an athlete within the final three years.
- That mentioned, Mal O’Brien’s 22.3 time of 4:11 nonetheless stands because the quickest ever for the ladies on this exercise.
With many of the prime athletes going unbroken, it got here right down to cycle velocity and transition time.
In a exercise the place each second can imply dozens of locations on the leaderboard, successful by 10-plus seconds makes the 2 prime instances all of the extra spectacular.
Quick Info: Just one different athlete within the historical past of the Open has received the primary two exercises.
Was it Fraser? Toomey? Briggs? Nope, it was Nicolai Duus in 2018. The Danish athlete received 18.1 and 18.2, then went on to position 683rd total.
The identical pairing of female and male athletes has received an Open exercise simply two different instances — and it’s been some time.
- Annie Thorisdottir and Wealthy Froning each received 11.1 and 12.2.
- Sam Briggs and Josh Bridges each received 14.5 and 16.5 (which occurred to be the identical exercise).
Von Rohr and Mertens have completed it thrice previously 12 months, successful 24.1, 25.1, and now 25.2. Nevertheless, one has but to win with out the opposite.
2025 CrossFit Open Leaderboard After 25.2
Ladies
- Mirjam von Rohr – 2 factors
- Charge Saghafi – 7 factors
- Alazne Egiazabal – 13 factors
Males
- Colten Mertens – 2 factors
- Colin Bosshard – 7 factors
- Jeff Adler – 10 factors
The massive image: The perfect Open end ever by an athlete was Mal O’Brien in 2022, with an almost excellent 4 complete factors.
- She positioned first, second, and first for a median end of 1.3.
The perfect end for males was Wealthy Froning again in 2014, with a complete of 18 factors over 5 weeks, for a median end of three.6.
Nobody has ever gone undefeated in a CrossFit Open. This week, each Mertens and von Rohr have the chance to make historical past once more.
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