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CrossFit star Tia-Clair Toomey has Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics dream
- The 28-year-old Australian has appeared at Commonwealth Games and Summer Olympics
- Toomey is set to kick off her Winter Olympics quest this November via the World Cup
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Tia-Clair Toomey is hoping to create such an exclusive club this coming February that she may be the only person who is ever a member of it.
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If the Australian qualifies for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in the two man bobsleigh, she can add that to a resume which also includes the Summer Olympics, the Commonwealth Games and the CrossFit Games.
Toomey is the five-time reigning women’s champion in CrossFit, having won this past August at the 2021 CrossFit Games. Her dominance on the women’s side sees her compared to men’s five-time champion Mat Fraser in debates as to who is the greatest CrossFitter of all-time.
In 2018 Toomey won the women’s 58kg weightlifting gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on Australia‘s Gold Coast. Toomey won that event with the last lift of the competition, a 114kg clean and jerk that gave her the gold by just 1kg over second placed Canadian Tali Darsigny.
Her journey to the Commonwealth Games was a bit unorthodox given it went through CrossFit. In 2013 she lifted a personal best of 85kg after only training in the sport for six months, which caught the eye of Australian weightlifting coach Miles Wydall. Toomey trained and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where she finished 14th.
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