Who’s Qualified for the Games Unofficially in the Top 20

The 2019 CrossFit Open officially wrapped up on Monday. Now CrossFit will undergo a lengthy review process to verify all qualifiers. We will have more in-depth explanation on that process coming out tomorrow. So as of right now everything is UNOFFICIAL. 

Consider This: At this point, there are only around 14 more CrossFit Games invites remaining (10 for the Sanctionals events and four at-large invites). The rulebook isn’t clear on whether it’s four per gender or four total.

Some fun facts, unofficially of course:

• 18 veteran females from the 2018 Games will be returning; 14 veterans on the mens side.
• Scott Panchik will be heading to his eighth consecutive CrossFit Games.
• Annie Thorisdottir will become only the third athlete in history to reach 10 individual CrossFit Games appearances, joining Ben Smith and Becca Voigt. The current streak is 10 consecutive individual appearances held by Ben Smith. He had surgery earlier this year and still has a chance to qualify through a Sanctional. Camille Leblanc-Bazinet holds the second longest streak at nine and has the opportunity to tie Smith if she wins a Sanctional.
• There are five potential individual rookies in the top 10 for the men: Lefteris Theofanidis (2), Jean-Simon Roy-Lemaire (5), Uldis Upenieks (7), George Sterner (8), and Samuel Cournoyer (9).
• There is only one potential rookie in the top 10 for women: Dani Speegle, who took 5th.

The cutoff for the men currently sits at 28th place, and 31st for women, but these athletes are expected to decline their individual invite and compete on a team:

• Men: Rich Froning, which moves the line to 29th (more on that below).
• Women: Alexis Johnson and Tasia Percevecz, which moves the line to 34th because 32nd place Camilla Salomonsson Hellman is the unofficial national champion of Sweden.

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Only 9 seconds separated Noah Ohlsen from a Games invite. Here’s how:

• Currently the cut off for qualification sits at 28th place, but with 10th place Rich Froning likely competing on a team, the line would extend to 29th.
• Patrick Vellner — who was first at Wodapalooza — sits only 9 points back from 29th place. And if Vellner would have finished 19.5 just 9 seconds faster he would be tied for 29th and would win the tiebreaker, opening up the Wodapalooza invite for Ohlsen.
• Ohlsen got third at Wodapalooza, Travis Mayer was second and sits 16th worldwide.
• Ohlsen finished the Open 63rd worldwide. He would have needed to place 392nd or better in 19.1 to have placed 28th.

Who will get the Sanctionals invites? If everything holds, here are the Sanctionals invites:

• Dubai CrossFit Championship: Bethany Shadburne (7th) and Roman Khrennikov (5th)
• Wodapalooza: Colleen Fotsch (6th) and Patrick Vellner (1st)
• Australian CrossFit Championship: Maddie Sturt (2nd) and James Newbury (1st)
• Fittest in Cape Town: Mia Akerlund (2nd) and Sean Sweeney (1st)
• Strength in Depth: Thuri Helgadottir (4th) and Bronislaw Olenkowicz (1st)

2018 male Games athletes who participated in the Open and are not making it back to the Games as individuals:

• Tim Paulson, Saxon Panchik, Zeke Grove, Lukas Esslinger, Noah Ohlsen, Alexandre Caron, Marquan Jones, Royce Dunne, Rasmus Andersen, Alec Smith, Mitchel Stevenson, Nicholas Urankar, Khan Porter, Ethan Helbig, Alex Anderson, John Coltey, Cody Anderson, Pablo Chalfun, Craig Kenney, Ben Smith, and Brent Fikowski.

2018 female Games athletes who participated in the Open and are not making it back to the Games as individuals:

• Courtney Haley, Cassidy Lance-Mcwherter, Justine Beath, Chloe Gauvin-David, Chyna Cho, Jennifer Smith, Ehea Schuerch, Oddrun Eik Gylfadottir, Rebecca Voigt, Paige Semenza, Lauren Fisher, Emily Bridgers, Camille Leblanc-Bazinet, Brista Mayfield, Stephanie Chung, and Dani Horan.

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