We are still two weeks away from the start of the 2024 CrossFit Open, but we already have the match-ups for 24.1 and now 24.2. Yesterday, CrossFit announced that Justin Medeiros will take on Colten Mertens at the 24.2 CrossFit Open live announcement on March 7.
The 24.2 Open announcement live show begins at 2:30pm EST (11:30am PST) on Thursday, March 7. The Open workout will be announced 30 minutes later at 3:00pm EST with Medeiros and Mertens taking on the workout immediately following.
The Open announcement will be live streamed on the CrossFit Games YouTube channel. The location of 24.2 live show has yet to be announced.
Medeiros is coming off a 13th place finish at the 2023 CrossFit Games, his worst finish in his four years at the Games. For Mertens, he finished 18th at last year’s Games, his best finish in his three appearances as an individual.
The two will also take on additional workouts, similar to the first week’s athletes, for a chance to win a Rogue Fitness Golden Barbell. Details on how these workouts and how to win the Golden Barbell have yet to be revealed.
The 24.1 live announcement will feature four athletes – Jeff Adler, Brent Fikowski, Alex Gazan and Alexis Raptis.