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Danielle Brandon and Cole Greashaber Breeze Through Event 3 “Inverted Medley” at the 2023 CrossFit Games

August 3, 2023 by Phil Blechman

After the first two events for the Individuals, Alexis Raptis stood atop the leaderboard for the women with Horvath right on her heels. Roman Khrennikov wore the leader’s jersey for the men entering the third event, with Fiebig behind him by 21 points on the overall leaderboard.

Below are the results for event three “Inverted Medley”:

2023 CrossFit Games Event Three — Inverted Medley

For time:

  • 30-foot unbroken handstand walk over the ramp
  • Eight free-standing handstand push-ups
  • Unbroken obstacle steps to a 180° pirouette
  • 16 pullovers
  • Unbroken obstacle steps to a 360° pirouette
  • Eight free-standing handstand push-ups
  • 30-foot unbroken handstand walk over the ramp

[Related: The CrossFit Games Will Not Return To Madison, WI, in 2024]

Individual Women Results

  1. Danielle Brandon — 3:12.75 seconds
  2. Elisa Fuliano — 3:46.89 seconds
  3. Paige Powers — 3:56.62
  4. Shelby Neal — 3:57.57
  5. Alexis Raptis — 4:13.51
  6. Katrin Davíðsdóttir — 4:17.56
  7. Emily Rolfe — 4:23.30
  8. Sydney Wells — 4:33.67
  9. Baylee Rayl — 4:45.39
  10. Matilde Garnes — 4:51.37
  11. Christine Kolenbrander — 4:53.16
  12. Annie Thorisdottir — 4:55.94
  13. Emma Lawson — 5:16.28
  14. Arielle Loewen — 5:22.78
  15. Amanda Barnhart — 5:31.74
  16. Bethany Flores — 6:16.20
  17. Emma Cary — 6:17.68
  18. Jamie Simmonds — CAP
  19. Alex Gazan — CAP
  20. Laura Horvath — CAP + Two (T-20th)
  21. Gabriela Migała — CAP + Two (T-20th)
  22. Michelle Basnett — CAP + Two
  23. Emily de Rooy — CAP + Two
  24. Manon Angonese — CAP + Three
  25. Karin Freyová — CAP + Five (T-25th)
  26. Emma Tall — CAP + Five (T-25th)
  27. Shahad Budebs — CAP + Five (T-27th)
  28. Rebecka Vitesson — CAP + Five
  29. Seher Kaya — CAP + Five
  30. Abigail Domit — CAP + Nine
  31. Victoria Campos — CAP + Nine
  32. Paige Semenza — CAP + Nine
  33. Feeroozeh Saghafi — CAP + 10
  34. Alexia Williams — CAP + 10
  35. Caroline Stanley — CAP + 10
  36. Olivia Kerstetter — CAP + 10
  37. Emma McQuaid — CAP + 16
  38. Kelly Baker — CAP + 31 (T-38th)
  39. Ellie Turner — CAP + 31 (T-38th)
  40. Ella Wunger — CAP + 33

[Related: 2023 CrossFit Games Day One Results]

Individual Men Results

  1. Cole Greashaber — 3:47.89
  2. Justin Medeiros — 4:03.63
  3. Bayley Martin — 4:25.68
  4. Jay Crouch — 4:27.72
  5. Roman Khrennikov — 4:40.23
  6. Patrick Vellner — 4;48.38
  7. Chandler Smith — 4:50.28
  8. Nick Mathew — 4:51.69
  9. Samuel Cournoyer — 4:57.40
  10. Henrik Haapalainen — 5:12.34
  11. Jonne Koski — 5:13.49
  12. Noah Ohlsen — 5:29.12
  13. Spencer Panchik — 5:38.42
  14. Colten Mertens — 5:41.72
  15. Jeffrey Adler — 5:57.78
  16. Kalyan Souza — 6:09.86
  17. Dallin Pepper — 6:27.82
  18. Uldis Upenieks — 6:27.98
  19. Moritz Fiebig — 6:29.10
  20. Luke Parker — 6:31.01
  21. Jelle Hoste — 6:33.50
  22. Lazar Đukić — 6:34.03
  23. Brent Fikowski — CAP + One
  24. James Sprague — CAP + One
  25. Samuel Kwant — CAP + Two
  26. Björgvin Karl Gudmundsson — CAP + Five
  27. Arthur Semenov — CAP + Five
  28. David Shorunke — CAP + Five
  29. Ant Haynes — CAP + Five
  30. Jack Farlow — CAP + Five
  31. Fabian Beneito — CAP + Five
  32. Alex Vigneault — CAP + Six
  33. Will Moorad — CAP + Nine
  34. Bronislaw Olenkowicz — CAP + Nine
  35. Kaique Cerveny — CAP + Nine
  36. Cole Sager — CAP + Nine
  37. Jake Douglas — CAP + 10
  38. Jayson Hopper — CAP + 11
  39. Michal Wesolowski — CAP + 31

[Related: 2023 CrossFit Games Withdrawals]

Individual Women Recap — “Inverted Medley”

In heat one, Budebs got out to an early lead. She was the first to the pull-overs, followed by Baylee Rayl. Rayl went nearly unbroken on her pullovers and moved ahead by a handful of reps.

Basnett didn’t let Rayl’s lead grow too large, as Rayl took some recovery time following the pullovers. However, Rayl remained flawless through the heat to set the time to beat of 4:45.39.

Basnett and Budebs struggled through their last round of handstand push-ups and were capped, leaving Rayl as the only athlete to complete the course in heat one.

Rayl
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

Heat two saw Neal, Wells, and Vitesson race through the opening stages and reach the stairs. Neal was the first to the pullovers, putting her gymnastics background on display.

Wells was second to the pullover bar and closed some distance between her and Neal when Neal dropped to chalk her hands. Flores crept toward the front of the pack as Neal and Wells moved back to the handstands.

Rolfe entered the fray coming off the pullovers, but it seemed to be Neal’s heat to lose. Neal remained flawless through every round, with more than a minute to finish the last section on Rayl’s leading time. She closed sub-four minutes.

Neal
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

Heat three was a tight race out of the gate between Davidsdottir, Loewen, and Fuliano. The latter wasted no time moving between sections — a smart choice, as Loewen failed a round and had to restart.

Fuliano was the first to the pullovers. Davidsdottir did not rush to the pullovers and stayed her pace. Loewen turned the jets on to make up for the lost time on her missed rep in the handstand walk.

Fuliano held a two-rep lead returning to the handstand walks, cleared the pirouette, and went straight into the handstand push-ups. Loewen kept up with Fuliano, recognizing that Fuliano was likely setting the pace to beat.

Davíðsdóttir moved through the back half unbroken, overtaking Loewen, who suffered a costly slip. In the final stretch, Davíðsdóttir’s flawless run came to an end, allowing Fuliano to take the heat win and set the new time to beat.

Fuliano
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

The final heat for the women saw Brandon shoot out of the gate, going unbroken all the way to the stairs. She came off her hands before going over the steps, but wasted no time getting to the pullovers.

The Brandon show continued as she never let up through the pullovers and was on the back half has nearly half the field worked to get to the pullovers. 

Brandon took a fall on the first round of handstand push-ups on the back half due to her pace. She recovered well and continued her speedy performance.

Brandon
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

There was no doubt that this was Brandon’s event from the moment her heat began. She closed in just over three minutes.

Individual Men Recap — “Inverted Medley”

The opening heat for the men was led by Spencer Panchik, who moved through all but one section before the stairs unbroken. Olenkowicz stayed the pace that Panchik set and overtook the lead after a stumble by Panchik.

Olenkowicz and Panchik hit the pullovers in adjacent lanes together. They were both upper-body dominant on the pullovers that threatened to fatigue them on the back half of the course.

The same pair moved back to the steps simultaneously but took a significant amount of time to restart their second halves. Panchik failed his pirouette twice but had enough of a buffer from the rest of the pack to maintain the lead, except for Souza, who joined Panchik out front.

Panchik closed the heat win in a time of 5:38.42. While unlikely to hold for the event win, he was only one of two athletes to finish in the heat.

Panchik
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

Nick Mathew moved through the first two rounds of handstand push-ups unbroken to start heat two. He nearly went unbroken up the stairs as well but missed. He recovered quickly and was first to the pullovers.

Mathew’s lead was a lot to overcome but Martin was up to the task. Mathew and Martin both finished their pullovers together. Mathew missed two attempts on his second round of stairs before Martin began the second half of his run.

Martin cleared the first four handstand push-ups on the back half alone and took some recovery time. Mathew continued to miss his second stairs, leaving the way for Smith to move into second place.

Martin closed the heat first. Smith and Mathew raced for second, with Smith finishing just over a second faster.

Martin
Image courtesy of CrossFit

Heat three was Greashaber’s show through the first stages to the pullovers. Crouch and Koski were within range of Greashaber, who was quick to start his second half with a clean pirouette.

Greashaber’s back half was nearly flawless. He was the first male athlete to convert the course in sub-four minutes.

Greashaber
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

The final heat of the day for the men knew the time to beat was sub-four minutes. Vellner, Pepper, Dukic, and Fikowski were out front initially, but Hopper surpassed them via his first unbroken stretch.

Khrennikov maneuvered over the stairs to reach the pullovers first. Medeiros went unbroken through the pullovers — the only athlete in the entire competition to do so — mounting his comeback on the leaderboard.

Medeiros
Image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

Ohlsen and Khrennikov tried to catch up to Medeiros, who dramatically resisted gravity trying to pull him down. While the winning time came and went, Medieros still posted a finish that kept his Games alive.

Onto Day Four

Day four of the Games represents the second day of competition for the Individual athletes. At the time of this article’s publication, there are two events scheduled: The Alpaca Redux and Ski-Bag.

Featured image courtesy of CrossFit LLC

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