The seven-time CrossFit Video games winner needed to withdraw quickly earlier than the race began.
Seven-time CrossFit Video games champion Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr raced on Saturday, June 14, on the 2025 HYROX World Championships within the Blended Doubles alongside James Newbury however later pulled out of her deliberate race within the Girls’s Professional Doubles Elite 15 with companion Joanna Wietrzyk.
Whereas a particular cause wasn’t given, we have been advised by a number of sources that Toomey-Orr was coping with an sickness that brought on her to withdraw.
Remind me: Toomey-Orr has taken up HYROX racing in current months and has already put the game on discover. She and her combined doubles companion, James Newbury, certified for the World Championships this season within the 30-39 age division. She additionally certified for the Girls’s Professional Doubles Elite 15 with Joanna Wietrzyk.
- The HYROX World Championships 2025 have been held in Chicago, IL, the place 4,500 athletes concluded the season over 4 days.
Toomey-Orr and fellow CrossFitter Newbury completed fifth of their division with a time of 56:01 on Saturday. Gabriella Moriarty and David O’Toole completed first with a time of 54:36.
Later within the day, we discovered that Toomey-Orr wouldn’t race within the Professional Doubles Elite 15 with Wietrzyk. Lauren Griffith and Lauren Weeks got here away with the win at 54:58.
Listed below are the highest 5 finishers:
Place | Athletes | Time |
1 | Lauren Griffith, Lauren Weeks | 0:54:58 |
2 | Lucy Procter, Sinéad Bent | 0:55:07 |
3 | Linda Meier, Viola Oberländer | 0:55:47 |
4 | Kate Davey, Zara Piergianni | 0:56:33 |
5 | Margot Vandenlindenloof, Charlotte Vandenlindenloof | 0:56:58 |
Observe: When Toomey-Orr and Wietrzyk final competed in a doubles division HYROX race, they completed at 54:24, which might have been the highest time on the World Championships.
See the total outcomes right here.
Tia in HYROX
Whereas coaching for the HYROX World Championships, Toomey-Orr has additionally continued to coach all through the 2025 CrossFit Video games season. Most just lately, she certified for the Video games on the Torian Professional, which was an In-Particular person Qualifying Occasion (IPQE) held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Toomey-Orr completed the competitors on the prime of the rostrum, securing her tenth Video games spot and persevering with her domination of the game.
- She has centered a lot of her current coaching on HYROX racing and has signaled she is stepping away from elite CrossFit.
The Video games will probably be the following time we see Toomey-Orr compete…if she accepts the invitation.
The 2025 CrossFit Video games might be held in Albany, NY, from August 1 to three. Tickets are on sale now.
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