Justin Medeiros Is the Two-Time Fittest Man on Earth

Описание: A three-time CrossFit Games athlete and three-time podium finisher, Justin Medeiros, 23, is the Fittest Man on Earth for the second consecutive year.

While most picked Toomey to win for the women, the feeling was not as strong for Justin Medeiros, the reigning Fittest Man on Earth. Medeiros arrived in Madison after impressive performances earlier in the season. He was second in the worldwide Open (by far his best finish), the worldwide winner of Quarterfinals, and he handily won his Semifinal, the Syndicate Crown.

Medeiros faced stout competition from the two prominent wild cards on the men’s side: Ricky Garard, who was making his return from a four-year suspension, and Roman Khrennikov, who was competing live at his first Games after years of visa issues. Garard and Khrennikov pushed Medeiros throughout the weekend. It wasn’t until after the first event on Saturday, Rinse ‘N’ Repeat, that Medeiros gained the overall lead. He went on to hold the leader’s jersey for the last four events and win his second championship, making him just the third man (and sixth individual) to do so.

The push by Khrennikov in second overall and Garard in third showed in the final points tally. Medeiros’ 27-point win was the smallest margin of victory for the men in the Open era (2011 to present). The last time we saw a race so close on the men’s side was when Rich Froning Jr. lost to Graham Holmberg in the final event at the 2010 CrossFit Games — Holmberg won the Games that year by just three points in the place-points scoring system that was used at the time.

Medeiros did not win a single event in 2022. While we have seen champions emerge without an event win — Tanya Wagner won the Games in 2009 and James Fitzgerald won in 2007, both with zero event victories — it’s a rare occurrence. It was Medeiros’ consistency that earned him the top spot on this year’s podium, and he has now been on the podium for all three Games of his career (3rd, 2020; 1st, 2021-2022), moving him into a tie for eighth of all time.

The fittest athlete on Earth, as Chuck Carswell explains, is “the person who performs statistically best at all of the activities we test. … That’s who the fittest is.”    • Who Is the Fittest on Earth?  

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