The 2024 CrossFit Service Open Highlights — Cale Layman Impresses

The CrossFit newcomer could possibly be a high athlete within the making.

Because the group places a bow on the 2024 CrossFit Open, there are numerous performances to rejoice. 

Proficient Video games-level athletes all logged terrific competitions, however this 12 months additionally noticed the return of the Service Open, which put the decision out to all service members to find out the fittest in sure professions

[Related: 15 Exercises for CrossFit Beginners to Learn to Build a Strong Base]

What Is the CrossFit Service Open?

The CrossFit Video games outlines the purpose of the 2024 Service Open as a chance to “rejoice those that selflessly serve their communities each day, showcasing how these people use health to reach their professions.” 

It additionally gives a implausible alternative for athletes in the identical career to battle one another for bragging rights. (In spite of everything, Crossfitters at all times love a contest.)

Since 2017, we’ve got seen completely different variations of the Service Open in CrossFit, however this 12 months, there shall be a second stage of the competitors to offer the chance for athletes to be known as the fittest of their career.

  • The second stage of the Service Open is the Service Cup: Constructed to Serve, a digital competitors to find out the fittest in every career. 
  • This contest takes place from June 6-13.
  • Qualifying athletes will obtain an invite with directions on learn how to register quickly. 

The 2024 Service Open was accessible to athletes in these professions:

  • Affiliate Proprietor 
  • CrossFit Coach 
  • EMS Responder 
  • Medical Skilled
  • Educator
  • Army Veteran
  • Lively Obligation Army
  • Regulation Enforcement
  • Firefighter
  • First Responder
  • Faculty Scholar

Here’s a breakdown of the highest performers in the principle classes for women and men:

Service Occupation Hashtag Males Ladies
#activedutymilitary Cale Layman Addison Desrosier
#educator Will Carter Carolyne Prevost
#firefighter Guillaume Briant Simone Arthur
#firstresponder Andrew Winsor Ashleigh Wosny
#lawenforcementofficer Samuel Paquin Nicole Heer
#medicalprofessional Tobias Opadahl Aimee Cringle
#militaryveteran Chandler Smith Shaylin Laure
#crossfittrainer Maxi Henze Katrina Digiacomo
#affiliateowner Agustin Richelme Katelin Van Zyl
#collegestudent Cale Layman Anikha Greer

[Related: 2024 CrossFit Open Age Group Results]

What Does It Imply?

Probably the most fascinating finishes belongs to Cale Layman, whose title seems on the winners listing twice, as soon as as an active-duty army member and as soon as as a university pupil. 

  • Layman positioned seventh on the (nonetheless unofficial) 2024 Open leaderboard, with two finishes inside the highest 20. It’s only his second 12 months taking part within the Open; he completed 4,774th on the planet in 2023.

Layman is from Williston, VT, and trains at Black and Gold CrossFit in West Level, NY. It is a membership at the US Army Academy, the place Layman is a pupil. 

In January, Layman competed with workforce Black and Gold FITT within the Intermediate Males’s division in Miami for Wodapalooza. A comparatively new title within the CrossFit house, Layman is somebody to keep watch over transferring ahead after his robust Open efficiency.

Another noteworthy performances embody:

  • Addison Desrosier — twentieth in 24.1
  • Guillaume Briant — Sixth in 24.3
  • Chandler Smith – twelfth in 24.1
  • Nicole Heer — thirty first in 24.2
  • Samuel Paquin — Presently thirty third worldwide
  • Anikha Greer — Presently third worldwide, third in 24.3

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Featured picture: @cale_layman_ / Instagram


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