The 2025 CrossFit Games begin on August 1, and from a programming standpoint, we’re starting to see a clearer picture of what the weekend will look like.
Well, sort of.
Currently, we have details for six of the 10 events this week (at the time of publication):
- Events 1 and 2 on Friday.
- Events 4 and 5 on Saturday.
- Events 8 and 9 on Sunday.
Below, you will find all of the events we know for sure are happening and on what day they’ll take place. We’ll update the list as information becomes available.
Friday, August 1
The 2025 CrossFit Games will kick off with a long endurance event, which was announced back on May 20.
For time:
- 4-mile run
- 3,000-meter row
- 2-mile run
Friday’s second event will feature the return of the double-under crossover for the second time, a move first introduced during the Skill Speed Medley in 2022.
That year, only one man, Nick Mathew, and no women finished the event, as most struggled with performing double-under crossovers. The Director of the CrossFit Games, Dave Castro, suspects this won’t be an issue again this year.
For time:
- 20 wall walks
- 10 dumbbell shoulder-to-overhead, 100/70 pounds
- 20 double-under crossovers
- 30 toes-to-bar
- 20 double-under crossovers
- 10 dumbbell shoulder-to-overhead
- 20 double-under crossovers
- 30 toes-to-bar
- 20 double-under crossovers
- 10 dumbbell shoulder-to-overhead
That’s all we know about Friday’s events so far. We expect one more event in the evening, especially since this year’s Games are only three days long, compared to four or five days in previous years.
- Additionally, looking back to 2016, the first day of competition has consistently included at least three events, with four in 2021 and 2018.
Saturday, August 2
Just like Friday, we now have details about the first two events on Saturday.
Five rounds for time:
- 300-meter run
- 12 axle-bar deadlifts, 350/220 pounds
- 100-foot handstand walk
- 1RM back squat
The one-rep max back squat was also tested in the “CrossFit Total” event at the inaugural Games in 2007, again in 2018, and once more during the pandemic year in 2020.
- Like Friday, we don’t have a clear picture of Saturday’s full schedule. That being said, since Event 8 is on Sunday, no more than two additional events will be added on Saturday.
Sunday, August 3
The only thing we know about Sunday is Event 8, leaving many unknowns, as always, for the final day of competition.
- Worth noting: On his Week in Review (WIR) on July 28, Castro said there would be between “several” and 12 events total.
For time:
- 50/40 Echo bike calories
- 100-foot yoke carry
- 30 deficit handstand push-ups
- 100-foot yoke carry
- 50/40 Echo bike calories
Event 9
Five rounds for time:
- 200-foot run
- 6 snatches, 155/105 pounds
One Big Thing
During his July 21 Week in Review, Castro also mentioned that there will be an event with the pegboard again this year, another movement that stopped most athletes in their tracks when it was first introduced at the Games in 2015.
Not a single woman managed to complete “Pedal to the Metal 1,” while only six men finished the event under the time cap.
- It returned the following year in the workout “Redemption,” and 26 men and 10 women managed to complete the six pegboard ascents, sandwiched between heavy thrusters.
Today, Games-level athletes have all mastered the pegboard; however, Castro predicted that it might cause them problems this weekend in Albany.
- “I think it has the possibility to be the hardest test of the weekend, or one of the harder tests of the weekend. It might stop people in [their] tracks…and I’m OK with that,” he said on his week in review.
What’s Still Missing?
It’s impossible to predict what’s ahead; however, there are some common movements and tests we expect to be announced in the next few hours or days, including:
- Heavy Olympic weightlifting: Of the six announced tests, only one (Event 9) involves cleans or snatches. That said, there’s already a one-rep max back squat event, so there might not be a max weightlifting event this year like there usually is.
- Muscle-ups: Whether it’s a bar or ring muscle-up (and also pull-ups, for that matter), the movement is still missing from the lineup of workouts, and it’s hard to picture the CrossFit Games without a bar or ring muscle-up, or both.
- Rope climbs: While not a requirement in a CrossFit Games competition, we’re expecting them to show up as well.
The Big Picture
We know a lot about the events the athletes will undertake in Albany, NY, this week, but there’s still arguably more we don’t. And even when we do learn about them through an event announcement, as Castro mentioned in his WIR, you can never be 100 percent sure.
- “With everything that’s laid out…and everything that you know and don’t know, there still exists the possibility of some twists,” he said.
That being said, Castro also said he isn’t trying to get too fancy or gimmicky.
- “Core, straightforward, pure CrossFit…That’s what it is this year,” he said.
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