Almost 200,000 CrossFit Open Members From 2024 Did Not Return in 2025

CrossFit is observable, measurable, and repeatable. Through the years, a repeat exercise within the Open can inform an athlete quite a bit about their health and talent work. The identical goes for Open registration comparisons. 

In 2022, 254,118 athletes (87% of registrants) submitted a rating for 22.3. For this 12 months’s repeat, 199,174 (85%) submitted a rating.

Digging a little bit deeper: Of the practically 294,000 athletes who registered for the 2022 Open, solely 78,306 registered this 12 months. 

• Whereas a few of these athletes should still have repeated the exercise of their gymnasium, their official rating is not going to be on the leaderboard.

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Notable Athletes From 22.3 Who Didn’t Register for 25.2

Scott Tetlow, who received 22.3, didn’t register for the 2025 Open. In an Instagram comment, he shared that he’s coping with an damage.

• For the highest three girls from 22.3, solely Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, who got here in second, returned this 12 months. Each Mallory O’Brien, who received 22.3, and Kara Saunders, who was third worldwide, didn’t register. O’Brien’s time of 4:11 stays unbeaten three years later.

Notice: I calculated the full variety of 215,506 by evaluating the whole registration listing from 2022 to the present registration listing from 2025. 

• Neither the 2022 nor 2025 numbers embody Adaptive athletes who would have registered for the Open in 2022 and now register by WheelWOD, making them a like-for-like set of lists.

Talking of repeating. It’s time to have a look at an essential statistic we analyzed final 12 months – “new vs returning” athletes.

New vs. Returning Athletes

About this time final 12 months, I printed the eighth installment of the 2024 Open Report, which examined who was a brand-new athlete registering for the Open and who was a “returning” athlete. 

• A returning athlete, in my evaluation, means any athlete who registers for the present 12 months and whose CrossFit ID is current in a earlier 12 months. 
• If an athlete registered in 2011 and didn’t register once more till 2025, they might be included right here as a “returning” athlete. The identical is true for athletes who registered in 2024 and 2025.

Clearly, everybody was thought-about “new” in 2011 — however from there, momentum grew. 

It looks as if an inconceivable determine of a whole bunch of hundreds of recent athletes annually, 12 months over 12 months, from 2015 by 2024. However did it proceed?

Here’s a continuation of that very same chart, up to date for 2025:

For the primary time, the quantity of “new athletes” who registered for the Open is beneath 28% of the full. The 2020 CrossFit Open, which befell within the fall of 2019, is the one different 12 months in that vary at only a hair over 28%.

This 12 months, there are 65,439 new athletes versus 169,247 returning athletes from both the 2024 Open or earlier years.

On the similar time, as the full variety of new athletes shrank considerably, so did the returning athlete pool. 

Let’s break down the 65,000 new athletes and 169,000 returning athletes a bit additional.

2025 CrossFit Open Attrition and Progress

In 2024, 343,496 athletes competed within the Open. In 2025, solely 42% of them (143,790 athletes) returned from the earlier 12 months.

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Notice: This chart was created by taking a side-by-side registration listing of the 2024 whole registration listing and evaluating it to the present whole registration listing for 2025.

Almost 200,000 athletes who registered for the 2024 Open didn’t return for 2025.

Moreover, whereas 143,790 athletes from 2024 returned for 2025, solely 26,074 returned from earlier seasons. For instance, Wealthy Froning Jr. didn’t register for the 2024 Open however registered for all different years from 2011-2025. 

Which means there are 65,439 athletes who’re model new to the Open in 2025. Welcome!

Added all collectively, that will get us to the 235,303 athletes in whole who’ve registered to date for the 2025 season.

By the Numbers – The New CrossFit Athlete

• The common age of first-time registrants in 2025 is 34.7 years outdated. This aligns with what we noticed again in February: The Open Report, Week 2:  A “Young Sport” Gets Older. 
• The oldest “new” athlete in 2025 is 93 years outdated.
• By way of area:
  • 33.4% of first-time registrations in 2025 have been from america
  • 8.8% from France
  • 7.8% from the UK
  • 5.3% from South Korea.
• By gender, 51.4% of recent registrants are male. 
• 89.4% of recent registrations listing a CrossFit affiliate of their profile. 

Are you new right here? Then, you might be a part of the numbers beneath.

Open Report – Weekly Replace 7

The information beneath is updated by the submission deadline of Week 2 on Monday, March 10, at 8 p.m. ET.

Based mostly on Age Group Divisions

Based mostly on Aggressive Area

Previous 4 Years – Worm Chart

• The chart above, which is a year-over-year comparability chart counting right down to the submission date for XX.1, now has 2023 knowledge in addition to 2022. Notice: 2022 solely consists of the ‘Open’ division, not the 14-15 or 55+ age group divisions or Adaptive divisions.

On the time of publication, the present registration totals would equate to $2,353,030 in whole prize cash, divided into the next classes:

Video games – Particular person	$1,152,984.70
Video games – Groups	$235,303.00
Open – Particular person	$117,651.50
Open – Affiliate	$470,606.00
Masters Video games	$235,303.00
Adaptive Video games	$70,590.90
On-line Semifinal	$70,590.90

Fittest on Earth Prize: $288,246.18

Particular person Video games – Podium Prizes

• 2nd place: $57,649.24
• third place: $46,119.39

Affiliate Cup Prize: $70,590.90

Open Podium – Total Particular person:

• 1st place: $14,706.44
• 2nd place: $8,823.86
• third place: $5,882.58

We are going to proceed to trace these numbers by 25.3 subsequent week.

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