For all but 40 men and 40 women (and 38 teams) the 2023 CrossFit season came to an end once they crossed the finish line of the last event at Semifinals. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t opportunities to still compete.
The 2023 French Throwdown kicked off earlier today and runs through this Sunday. Among the 74 athletes competing there are some well-known names who narrowly missed qualifying for the Games on the competition floor AND one who did qualify!
Just three weeks after Karin Freyova took 5th at the Europe Semifinal to earn a trip back to Madison for the CrossFit Games, the CrossFit Games veteran from Slovakia is on the competion floor. She is joined by other who were at the European Semifinal including Sola Sigurdardottir, Valentina Magalotti, Jeromine Geroudet, and Elena Carratala Sanahuja.
On the men’s side there are 10 athletes at the French Throwdown who were also in Berlin at the Semifinals: Kealan Henry, Victor Hoffer, Enrico Zenoni, Giorgos Karavis, Antoine Dumain, Sven Geens, Tommaso Pieri, Luka Djukic, Grzegorz Maraszkiewicz and Anestis Artemis.
This year’s French Throwdown runs from today, Friday June 23 through Sunday, June 25. The elite athletes will take on 10 scored events, nine of which are currently known. The final event is still TBD.
The live leaderboard is on Competition Corner and is linked here.
The 2023 French Throwdown is also being live streamed on YouTube. Here are the links to the live streams for each event:
