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Froning and Thorisdottir Win the CrossFit Games…Again!

The CrossFit Games competition season has come to an end. Winners Annie Thorisdottir and Rich Froning retained their crowns (and earned more prize money) in a repeat of last year.

Becca Borawski

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The fittest man and woman on Earth…remain the fittest man and woman on Earth. The 2012 CrossFit Games season came to a conclusion this past weekend in Carson, California. After four days of competition and over a dozen events, Rich Froning and Annie Thorisdottir were crowned the winners. Both are repeat winners from last year – the first time this has happened in CrossFit Games history. Each took home $250,000 in prize money.

The Team competition prize was awarded to Hacks Pack Ute, from Ute CrossFit Sugarhouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Special congratulations to the CrossFit Central Competitors team who finished in thirteenth place and were sponsored by Breaking Muscle. If you are interested to see how they trained for the Games, you can read their athlete journals.

The annual Spirit of the Games award was given to Deborah Cordner Carson. Carson dropped out of the 2011 Games when confronted with the ocean swim, due to her lack of confidence in the water. This year she qualified for the Games again and successfully completed the triathlon event of the first day.

2012 Results

Men

  1. Rich Froning
  2. Matt Chan
  3. Kyle Kasperbauer

Women

  1. Annie Thorisdottir
  2. Julie Foucher
  3. Talayna Fortunato

Affiliate Teams

  1. Hack’s Pack Ute
  2. SPC CrossFit
  3. Diablo CrossFit Anejo

Winners in Previous Years

2011 – Rich Froning Jr., Annie Thorisdottir

2010 – Graham Holmberg, Kristan Clever

2009 – Mikko Salo, Tanya Wagner

2008 – Jason Khalipa, Caity Matter

2007 – James Fitzgerald, Jolie Gentry

Becca Borawski

About Becca Borawski

Becca found her way to a career in health and fitness through Martial Arts and CrossFit. Originally a music editor for film and television, Becca started studying Martial Arts in 2000. Though she started with traditional Martial Arts it was not long before she discovered Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and her path was forever altered. She began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) and Muay Thai and started working with professional MMA fighters, building websites, working on fight promotions, and producing videos.

As a competitor in BJJ herself, Becca wanted to get stronger and fitter. In 2006 she discovered CrossFit and became a student at CrossFit Los Angeles. In only a couple of years she became CrossFit Level III Certified, left her career in the film industry, and dedicated herself full time to coaching. She has since been certified through CrossFit in Olympic Lifting, Powerlifting, Nutrition, Endurance and Kids coaching. She also held an NSCA-CSCS from 2006-2008 and is a certified IndoRow instructor. In addition to coaching adults, she founded the CrossFit LA Kids program in 2010 and taught children aged 5-17.

Becca regularly takes on new sports, which have included indoor rowing, fencing, and most recently, cycling, as she believes it makes her both a better athlete and a better coach. In order to reach more people with her coaching, Becca also created ModernAthena.com – a website dedicated to women in pursuit of physical fitness and self-improvement.

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