Brooke Wells has reached CrossFit Legend status. She is now in an exclusive club of athletes who have qualified for the Games 10 times — an extraordinary accomplishment by any standard.
- That all comes to an end this year, as Wells announced that the 2025 CrossFit Games will be her last.
However, this won’t be the last time we see her on a competition floor. The WFP season continues through December, and we hope to see her at the Rogue Invitational in October.
Remind me: Wells began her CrossFit journey at the elite level in 2015, when she won the Central Regional at the age of 19.
- She turned 20 days before her rookie appearance at the Games, and walked away with a 16th-place finish.
Fast-forward a decade. Wells just turned 30 and will arrive in Albany wiser and fitter than ever.
She is best known for her raw strength, smooth running stride, and elite-level handstand walking.
- Wells earned her first career event win in 2016 by blitzing the deadlift ladder at the Ranch in Aromas, which topped out at a jaw-dropping 415 pounds.
She’s handstand walked her way to two other career event wins: the handstand walking obstacle course in 2018 and the 100-yard handstand walk in 2020, also at the Ranch.
Looking Ahead
Numbers can tell a story. And history is on her side in 2025.
Wells has been a model of consistency, failing to qualify for the Games only once in 11 years. Coincidentally, that year was 2023, the same year her twin sister, Sydney, qualified.
On the big stage, her results have been consistently inconsistent, but she has never finished outside the top 20.
- In her nine Games appearances, she has alternated between outside and inside the top 10 every single time.
Although Wells is always a top-five threat, she has more finishes outside the top 10 (five) than inside it (four). That should even out this year.
Wells’ CrossFit Games results by year:
- 2015: 16th
- 2016: 6th
- 2017: 14th
- 2018: 8th
- 2019: 15th
- 2020: 5th
- 2021: 20th*
- 2022: 5th
- 2024: 11th
- 2025: ???
Some Details
In 2021, Wells was forced to withdraw from competition after suffering a traumatic elbow injury during the max snatch event. At the time of the injury, she was holding sixth place overall.
- Demonstrating remarkable resilience, she made a strong comeback in 2022, delivering arguably the most successful season of her career to date.
She matched her best finish of fifth from 2020, but this time against a full field of 40 women.
Last year, Wells finished outside the top 10 to continue her alternating streak.
This Season
The 2025 CrossFit season has been up and down for Wells so far.
She finished 37th in the worldwide Open.
- After the In-Affiliate Semifinals, she was comfortably in a qualifying position, but was heavily penalized after the video review, dropping her from the top 11 all the way to 102nd.
It didn’t take long for her to earn redemption.
Less than a month later, at the Syndicate Crown In-Person Qualifying Event, Wells proved once again that she belongs, now for the tenth time, at the CrossFit Games. She finished in the top five in three of the six events and in the top 10 in all six.
The Bottom Line
If I were a gambling man (which I am), and I paid attention to the numbers (which I do), my money would be on Brooke Wells finishing inside the top 10 in 2025.
It is incredibly powerful to realize you’re doing something you love for the last time. Watch for Brooke Wells to have her best CrossFit Games performance yet.
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