After all the drama surrounding leaked workouts for the French Throwdown online qualifier, the score submission window for individuals officially closed yesterday (teams have until February 15).
But while the leaderboard is still unofficial as the video review process must be completed, we can begin to take a look at who we might see compete at the French Throwdown in May.
MEN’S LEADERBOARD
Victor Hoffer is sitting in first place overall after the three scored qualifier workouts, just one point ahead of Fabian Hermans. Hoffer returns after sitting out the 2025 CrossFit Games season while Hermans looks to take a step forward this season after qualifying for and finishing 15th at the 2025 Rogue Invitational.
Behind them are other CrossFit Games veterans including Henrik Haapalainen (6th), Enrico Zenoni (9th), Colin Bosshard (13th) and Toby Buckland (19th).
Note, the top 20 worldwide in the online qualifier advance to the French Throwdown.
The most notable male outside the top 20 is probably Fabian Beneito, 2023 CrossFit Games veteran, who is in 37th. Guillaume Briant and Michal Wesolowski, also both Games veterans, are in 53rd and 59th, respectively.
WOMEN’S LEADERBOARD
The top women’s leaderboard is held by Mirjam von Rohr. Von Rohr, who won the 2025 CrossFit Open and finished 7th at the CrossFit Games, was just announced as one of the athletes who will be at the 26.2 CrossFit Open live announcement on March 5.
Behind her is Elisa Fuliano in 2nd place. Fuliano, who did not officially compete in the CrossFit Games season last year, actually won the 2025 French Throwdown. However, because she did not participate in the CrossFit Open she was ineligible to receive an invite to compete at the CrossFit Games.
No word on whether Fuliano will officially participate in the Games season this year.
Three other CrossFit Games veterans, Ella Wunger, Siria Meha and Elena Carratala, are all in the top 6 of the unofficial leaderboard.
Reese Littlewood is in 8th place and Matilde Garnes is in 11th place. Littlewood, one of the up and coming teenage stars, looks to qualify for her first CrossFit Games appearance in 2026 after she narrowly missed qualifying at last year’s Syndicate Crown.
Similar to the men’s field, the women had several big names outside the top 20. Manon Angonese (23rd), Linda Keesman (25th), Rebecka Vitesson (29th) are all not in a position to qualify via the online qualifier. But all hope is not lost…more on that below.
And then way down in 51st is Lucy McGonigle. McGonigle, who did all three workouts as part of the live announcement show, did not submit a score for the third workout. It is unclear why she did not, but at this time she is well outside the cut line.
McGonigle, who made her rookie debut last year, has confirmed that she will compete at the 2025 Mayhem Classic. Outside of that, we don’t know if she will compete in any other Semifinals or wait until the online qualifier in June.
20 FROM QUARTERFINALS
So the French Throwdown is a little unique when it comes to filling its 40-athlete roster. Twenty spots are available to athletes worldwide via the online qualifier…which I spoke about above.
Another 20 spots will be granted based on the 2026 Quarterfinals. However, those 20 spots are only available to athletes on the European leaderboard, meaning that athletes from the United States or elsewhere cannot qualify for the French Throwdown via Quarterfinals.
Those roster spots obviously won’t be known until April, when the Quarterfinals video review process is completed.
FRENCH THROWDOWN
The 2026 French Throwdown will be in Paris, France on May 15-17. The top 3 men, women and teams will qualify for the 2026 CrossFit Games.
