The 2025 CrossFit Games Day by day Digest: Day 3

What occurred throughout Day 3 of the 2025 CrossFit Games? Meet the winners and take a look at the perfect moments from the day.

MEN

1. Jayson Hopper – 787 factors
2. Ricky Garard – 773 factors
3. James Sprague – 772 factors

WOMEN

1. Tia-Clair Toomey – 902 factors
2. Lucy Campbell – 720 factors
3. Olivia Kerstetter – 678 factors

TEAMS

1. CrossFit Oslo Kriger – 675 factors
2. CrossFit Mayhem – 660 factors
3. Camel City CrossFit – 595 factors

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The reigning Fittest on Earth are Tia-Clair Toomey, Jayson Hopper, and Team CrossFit Oslo Kriger. 

MEET THE WINNERS

Austin Hatfield Wins Back-to-Back Events

“You paid for the whole seat, but you’re only going to need the edge!” — Chase Ighram

When Austin Hatfield began Day 3, he was sitting in eighth place on the leaderboard. But solely 57 factors separated him from Jayson Hopper, sitting in first. It is likely to be the final day, however podium wasn’t out of the query but. 

Confident the deficit handstand push-ups in Event 9 have been in his wheelhouse, Hatfield secured his first occasion win of the weekend, bumping himself into sixth place. 

That wasn’t a podium, although, and Hatfield wasn’t completed climbing.

Stepping on the accelerator and setting cruise management to max velocity, Hatfield accomplished his 5 rounds in simply 2:35, snatching up one more 100 factors. 

“Where does that confidence come from?” Arsenault requested him within the post-event interview.

“The confidence comes in the gym, the hours of work you put in the gym. Just the consistency,” he mentioned. 

With only one occasion remaining, Hatfield sat within the third spot on the rostrum, a mere 13 factors away from the title of Fittest Man on Earth. 

Could he make it three for 3?

“Yeah. It’s championship Sunday,” Hatfield responded. 

A Tie for First

Team Event 7 featured a down-and-back chipper that included handstand walks, group deadlifts with an extended, fats bar, strict wall-facing handstand push-ups, and Echo bike energy.

The high three groups entered Day 3 with a mere 15-point unfold: CrossFit Oslo Kriger with 480 factors, CrossFit Mayhem with 475, and CrossFit Butcher’s Lab Vanløse with 465. The actual story, nevertheless, was the battle between Oslo and Mayhem for the highest spot on the leaderboard.

Athletes sped by way of the handstand stroll, with Oslo taking a lead on the primary set of deadlifts. Eyes remained on Oslo and Camel City CrossFit, which wasn’t far behind the group from Norway. Oslo maintained a cushty lead till the second set of deadlifts, once they obtained a no rep.

Out of what appeared like nowhere, Mayhem pulled forward on the handstand stroll to win the occasion by simply 3 seconds.

With the factors recalculated, CrossFit Mayhem and CrossFit Oslo Kriger entered Event 8 tied with 575 factors every. If Mayhem secures the win, it could be their first time with out Rich Froning Jr. on the group. And with former teenage champion Angelo DiCicco competing, it could mark the primary time a group with a former teen champ stands atop the rostrum.

Arielle Loewen: ‘I Haven’t Looked on the Leaderboard All Weekend’

Individual Event 9 felt as if it was made for a photograph end. With a 5-minute countdown, athletes needed to full 5 rounds of a 200-meter run and 6 105-lb snatches. 

But that was greater than sufficient time for these ladies, and each second counted. Just one misstep may value you essential factors. 

Heading into the second occasion of Day 3, Arielle Loewen had simply been knocked out of her third-place podium, due to her Twelfth-place end in Event 8. 

Focusing simply on her lane, Loewen sprinted by way of the 5 rounds, working into the top zone fourth in her warmth. This could be good for sixth place general, awarding Loewen her podium spot again. 

Her followers let loose a sigh of aid. 

But Loewen admitted in her post-event interview that she didn’t even know the place she stood on the leaderboard till sideline reporter Mike Arsenault advised her. 

“I’ll be honest, I haven’t looked at the leaderboard all weekend, so thank you,” she advised Arsenault. “These girls are all so amazing. The fact that I can hang with them and fight with them for a podium spot is pretty cool.”

Making History — A European Team Wins the Affiliate Cup for the First Time Ever

It all got here down to 1 remaining problem.

Heading into Event 8 — It All Adds Up — CrossFit Oslo Kriger and CrossFit Mayhem have been tied for factors atop the leaderboard. One exercise. One winner. The 2025 Affiliate Cup championship was on the road.

The occasion featured a brutal mixture of Worm thrusters, Worm lunges, rope climbs, and synchronized burpees — with the notorious Worm making its second look of the weekend. A dramatic lunge to the end would shut out the occasion. 

In Heat 1, eighth Day CrossFit laid down a blazing benchmark of 9:15 — the 11-minute time cap nowhere in sight. But the actual drama unfolded in Heat 2, with all the MVP enviornment locked in on the 2 titans: Oslo and Mayhem.

Mayhem, identified for dominating rope-climb occasions, entered as the favourite. But Oslo got here out swinging, ending their first spherical of Worm thrusters first and charging into the rope climbs. With precision and urgency, they started to drag away and by no means appeared again.

Mayhem fought to shut the hole, however Oslo turned up the warmth, refusing to provide an inch. By the time they reached the lunges, the lead was theirs, and the title was inside attain. With the gang on the sting of their seats, Oslo surged throughout the end in 8:07, making historical past as the primary European group to ever win the CrossFit Games Affiliate Cup.

CrossFit Oslo Kriger is the Fittest Team on Earth.

Olivia Kerstetter Slides into Podium Position

When Olivia Kerstetter turned 18 years outdated firstly of the 2023 CrossFit Games season, she tucked away her two gold medals from the Teenage Division and entered a brand new, extraordinarily aggressive division. 

Despite the problem, Kerstetter certified for her first CrossFit Games as a person that very same 12 months. She earned her first profession occasion win throughout the finale and completed the 2023 Games in sixteenth place general. 

Missing out on the Games final 12 months, Kerstetter earned her second ticket to the 2025 CrossFit Games out of the Fittest Experience In-Person Qualifier. 

All weekend, she climbed the leaderboard steadily, and by the ultimate occasion, Kerstetter set herself simply 14 factors out of third place. Channeling her 2023 Games self, she was the primary to lunge her 95-lb barbell to the top zone and picked up 100 factors and her second profession occasion win as a person. 

This win moved Kerstetter onto the rostrum. 

“I’ve grown up doing this sport forever, and this is one step closer to the ultimate goal,” she advised Arsenault.