Three Takeaways From the Final Day of the 2021 Dubai CrossFit Championship

There was no change to the top of the leaderboard on the third and final day of the Dubai CrossFit Championship. Laura Horvath and Roman Khrennikov each won in decisive fashion. Horvath exorcised her demons at the event, having twice withdrawn due to injuries in the past, she had eight top-5 finishes enroute to a 33-point victory. Khrennikov added to his competition accolades by finally adding the Dubai CrossFit Championship title. He didn’t have a finish outside of the top-5 and recorded three event wins for a dominating 92-point win. Here are three other takeaways from the opening day of competition.

Holte’s Swan Song 

All weekend Kristin Holte recognized that she might get emotional knowing this would be the last time she would step on the competition floor as an individual athlete. The soft-spoken and usually stoic Norwegian was definitely in the moment all weekend, enjoying herself and the time she got to share with her fellow athletes.

In her final individual competition she put in a vintage Holte performance, competing for a podium spot all weekend. She was rewarded with a second place finish thanks to five top-5 finishes including an event win in what else, a run up and down a ski slope.

The organizers of the DCC paid tribute to the eight-time Games veteran and 2019 second “Fittest Woman on Earth” by gathering the volunteers and athletes after the final event to pay tribute to one of the greatest women athletes of all-time.

That is when those emotions came out and she shed tears of sadness and joy as she soaked in the applause and adulation. Those who missed her performance in Dubai can catch her in action, in-person one final time at Wodapalooza as she competes on a team of fellow Norwegians.