In the last few months, The Barbell Spin has solidified a process that has been occasionally used in previous Games seasons, polling selective CrossFit media to rank the top athletes in the sport. Inspired by various polls in NCAA College Sports, the idea emerged to create a new opportunity for polling individuals who possess extensive
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC If you have been following along over the last couple weeks with our: Male Athlete Spotlights Female Athlete Spotlight You’ll have noticed that we have regularly been referring to each athlete’s performance against the field of 2023 Games qualifiers. Well, here is the document which shows their results all stacked up against
Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Much has been said and discussed on the initial offering of the NOBULL CrossFit Games Worldwide Ranking System. BrianFriend, myself and others have talked for hours and taken deep dives breaking down and analyzing its usefulness, the points that athletes can earn and the two year look-back process vs. starting fresh. In
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC This is the last in our three-part written series documenting our top-30 women from the “Carson Era” of the CrossFit Games. Each of the top-five women on this list won the CrossFit Games at least once during the “Carson Era” and combined, they account for
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC If you’re just finding this and haven’t seen our rankings for women 30-16 you can find those below: Otherwise, we will continue counting down the top female CrossFit athletes from the ‘Carson Era’, 2010 through 2016. 15. Christy (Phillips) Adkins “Adkins did a lot during
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC The CrossFit Games have moved locations a couple times during their history. We’ve broken down the history of the Games into different eras based on location. We started with the “Ranch Era”, and if you haven’t seen our top ten rankings for men and women
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Continuing our countdown of the top male athletes who competed at the CrossFit Games during the “Carson Era” (2010-2016). We round out the countdown today with the top five men from that era. 5. Josh Bridges “Nobody in the Crossfit world defines the word ‘icon’
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC Continuing our countdown of the top male athletes who competed at the CrossFit Games during the “Carson Era” (2010-2016). Today we start with 15 and will work our way down to six. 15. Noah Ohlsen “Ohlsen made himself relevant and known from his first season
Contributions from Brian Friend and John Young Image Credits: CrossFit LLC If you have not seen our “Ranch Era” top tens, be sure to check them out: Moving to the second location for the CrossFit Games, we have Carson, California where the “Fittest on Earth” gathered every summer from 2010 until 2016. The “Ranch Era” was
**Contributions by Barclay Dale, Brian Friend, and Mike Halpin** Image Credits: Athlete’s Eye If you missed part one of this two part series you can find it here. This two-part series is a collection of findings we’ve observed after filtering through cross-semifinal leaderboards for a couple weeks. We acknowledged certain disclaimers in part one about what