2021 CrossFit Games Individual Finals To Air On CBS Sunday, August 1

(CBS Local)- After a antithetic format past twelvemonth owed to the COVID pandemic, the CrossFit Games instrumentality to Madison, Wisconsin this week with an in-person contention to find which athletes successful each part volition gain the rubric of “Fittest On Earth”. The events commencement connected Tuesday July 27 with unrecorded sum of the idiosyncratic finals connected Sunday August 1 acceptable to aerial connected CBS Television Network.

The 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games finals volition aerial from 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time connected CBS Television Network and watercourse unrecorded connected Paramount+ connected August 1. In addition, CBS Sports Network volition person six hours of highlights passim the week of competition.

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“The astonishing happening astir the CrossFit Games is the transportation betwixt the world-class athletes performing superhuman feats of fittingness and the millions of radical mounting their ain achievable goals successful CrossFit boxes astir the world,” said Dave Castro, CrossFit GM of Sport. “The apical Games athletes each started retired successful a tiny gym somewhere, and this lawsuit allows each aspiring jock – astatine each property and each level – to spot parts of their ain idiosyncratic travel reflected connected the tract successful Madison.”

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This twelvemonth marks the 15th twelvemonth of contention for the CrossFit Games and volition spot 600 athletes crossed 27 divisions descend upon the Alliant Energy Center successful Madison for the competition. Each of the events passim the week starring up to the finals volition watercourse connected games.crossfit.com and CrossFit’s Facebook, YouTube and Twitch channels.

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Competition elements astatine the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games include:

• The apical idiosyncratic qualifiers (40 men and 40 women) from 10 continent-based Semifinals, competing for the Title of Fittest Man and Fittest Woman connected Earth.
• Eighteen age-based divisions with 20 men (or boys) and 20 women (or girls) successful each division, ranging from teenagers to Masters athletes, and including a caller 65+ Masters division.
• The apical 38 qualifying teams of 2 men and 2 women from the Semifinal events.
• The archetypal CrossFit Games awards contention for adaptive athletes, featuring the apical 5 men and apical 5 women successful each of 3 divisions.
• A full prize purse of much than $2.5 cardinal dollars, presented by NOBULL, with the apical idiosyncratic antheral and pistillate each receiving $310,000.