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View From The Edge | Tia-Clair Toomey’s sixth CrossFit Games win shows she is strong in mind, and not just body
- Australian crowned ‘Fittest on Earth’ again after overcoming early setbacks, showing she has mental strength as well as physical
- The 32-year-old is now the most decorated athlete in the history of the sport – and what a way to do it
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Tia-Clair Toomey won the 2021 CrossFit Games with ease. She won nine of the 15 events and had the “Fittest on Earth” title wrapped up, mathematically, long before the final event.
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It was a far cry from this year’s 2022 CrossFit Games, in which she was in eighth place by the end of day one and only won two events. It was still enough to earn her a record sixth title.
If 2021 showed she was physically fitter and stronger than everyone else on the floor, 2022 shows she is mentally strong too.
Sitting in eighth place on the overall women’s leader board, Toomey must have felt like she was in unfamiliar territory. The headlines and daily wraps almost all noted that the defending champ was down the pecking order.
With 100 points allocated for an event win, the tables could easily turn. But, normally, whoever is in eighth by the end of day one would not garner an inch of column space.
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For Toomey, though, even if the mentions were purely objective observations of her position, the undertone was clear – this is a surprise, and we might be about to see a seismic upset.
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