Ever wanted to see how an Olympic athlete would handle himself in a CrossFit® workout?
Romanian weightlifter Gabriel Sincraian has completed his very first Workout of the Day, and he decided to go with “Grace.”
First posted as a WOD on CrossFit.com in 2004, Grace consists of 30 clean & jerks for time, so it makes sense as a first WOD for a career weightlifter. The weight typically used by a male is 135 pounds. He finished the whole thing in 2 minutes 25 seconds, which is a pretty solid result.
He wrote on YouTube, “Looks easy but after i finish i was exhausted!” When asked why he did it at all, he simply said, “Because i like challenges and i don’t like to give up!”
[Check out Sara Sigmundsdottir’s “Grace” at 220 pounds, plus other extra heavy Graces, here!]
Note that Sincraian was disqualified from the Rio Olympics after testing positive for testosterone. He originally placed third in his weight class with a snatch of 173kg and a clean & jerk of 217kg, but these results were wiped from the record.
Sincraian still has medals from other weightlifting events, including a silver medal from the 2016 European Weightlifting Championships, where he completed a 169kg snatch and 202kg clean & jerk, and a bronze from the previous year’s European Weightlifting Championships.
[Read the full results of the 2016 European Weightlifting Championships in our roundup here.]
He also placed fifth at the 2015 World Weightlifting Championships with a total of 367 kilograms: 167kg in the snatch and 200kg in the clean & jerk. You can watch his lifts below.
While he serves his ban from international competition, he seems to be focusing pretty hard on regularly updating his YouTube channel.