CrossFit Games 2025 Day 3 Recap: Atlas Stones Crown Hopper, Toomey Wins 8th

Three events. Three hours. Two champions.

Finals day at the 2025 CrossFit Games (August 3, Albany, NY) started with a sprint and ended with a stomp. Jayson Hopper went out and won the title decisively. Tia-Clair Toomey did what Tia-Clair Toomey does: she made winning look like the only reasonable outcome.

Event 7: Sprint Couplet

Format: For time — 50 Assault Bike Calories, then 400m Shuttle Run (4 x 100m). Time cap: 10 minutes.

The sprint event opens finals day by clearing lactate fast and testing who's fresh versus who's hiding accumulated fatigue. After six events, the athletes who managed their effort well through days one and two will look noticeably different from those who burned too many matches.

Men's Results

1st: Brent Fikowski — The Canadian's aerobic engine on the assault bike is elite. He attacked the bike immediately and converted his effort into a 400m shuttle split that would be competitive in a fresh-athlete test. His finals day opened with a statement.

2nd: James Sprague — Sprague's emergence as a genuine competitor continued. He challenged Fikowski on the shuttle runs and pushed to the line, finishing within 4 seconds.

3rd: Hopper — Third. Crucially, third. Hopper had the points cushion to not need an event win here and ran accordingly. He was in the hunt but didn't chase Fikowski into an oxygen debt he'd regret on the later events.

Khrennikov — 5th. The Russian faded on the shuttle runs after a strong bike split. A small flag heading into the Atlas event.

Women's Results

1st: Haley Adams — Adams on sprint couplets is almost unfair. Her fast-twitch output on the bike combined with her closing speed on the shuttle runs produced a time that nobody was within 15 seconds of. If there's one event type where she's the clear favourite every time it appears on a CrossFit program, this is it.

2nd: Tia-Clair Toomey — She let Adams go. She didn't chase. She ran her race — 2nd place, maximum points, minimal cost to her tank for the events ahead. This is what championship experience looks like.

3rd: Aimee Cringle — Third in the sprint. The UK athlete's fitness across all domains is exceptional. Cringle running 3rd in a pure sprint event against the deepest field in Games history is remarkable.

Sprint Event Takeaways

Hopper's 3rd place was the right call. He didn't need this event. He needed to not finish 10th. He was never going to need heroics on day three given his points buffer, and he played it correctly.

Event 8: Atlas Stones

Format: For load and time — Atlas Stone to Shoulder (max load, EMOM format) followed by Yoke Carry (400m at 120% bodyweight), finishing with a barbell complex: 5 Deadlifts (315/215 lb) + 5 Power Cleans (225/155 lb) + 5 Push Jerks (225/155 lb).

The Atlas Stones section used a progressive loading format: athletes began with a 250 lb stone (men) / 170 lb stone (women) and attempted heavier stones on the minute, every minute, for 6 minutes. Athletes stopped when they missed or the time elapsed.

Men's Atlas Results

1st: Jayson Hopper — 340 lbs (154kg) Atlas Stone

This was the defining moment of the 2025 Games.

The 340 lb stone is a legitimate outlier weight in CrossFit competition. To put it on your shoulder after five events of accumulated fatigue, in a competition setting, with the title on the line — that's not just strength. That's composure under pressure.

Hopper opened at 250, hit 270, 290, 315 with increasing effort but no visible technical failure. The 340 lb attempt started with the lap catch that looked uncertain — the stone shifted slightly — but he drove through, got his left shoulder under it, and stood. The crowd reaction was involuntary. A few thousand people simultaneously made the same noise when it locked.

He then completed the 400m yoke carry and the barbell complex with composure that looked almost like he wasn't competing for a Games title. His finishing complex was 5 deadlifts unbroken, 5 power cleans in two sets of 3 and 2, and 5 push jerks unbroken. Methodical. Dominant.

2nd: Jeff Adler — 315 lbs (143kg) Atlas Stone Adler hit every stone up to 315 cleanly, then attempted 330 and took a lap catch that didn't secure. He passed on a re-attempt and moved to the carry. His barbell complex was faster than Hopper's. It didn't matter for the event win, but it put him firmly on the podium.

3rd: Lazar Đukić — 300 lbs (136kg) Đukić's Atlas performance was technically clean. He moved up the progression smoothly but topped out at 300. His yoke carry was strong and his barbell complex finished second-fastest among all men.

Women's Atlas Results

1st: Laura Horvath — 200 lbs (91kg) Atlas Stone Horvath's strength in stone events is legitimate. She worked through the progression methodically and pushed to 200 lbs, which was the heaviest stone any woman successfully shouldered. Her carry and barbell complex were excellent.

2nd: Tia-Clair Toomey — 185 lbs (84kg) Atlas Stone Toomey didn't need this event. She hit 185 lbs, completed the yoke carry efficiently, and absolutely flew through the barbell complex — her power clean and push jerk cycling was the fastest finishing complex of any female competitor. She took 2nd in the event while doing what she needed to do.

3rd: Aimee Cringle — 185 lbs (84kg) Atlas Stone (time tiebreaker — Toomey faster in complex) Cringle matched Toomey's stone weight, which tells you something. She is strong. Her 3rd place in this event was a personal achievement that she'll talk about in interviews for years.

Event 9 (Final): The Ladder

Format: Ascending ladder with 1-minute time cap per round — 50 Double Unders, 15 Handstand Push-Ups (strict), 20 Toes-to-Bar, 10 Chest-to-Bar Pull-Ups, 5 Bar Muscle-Ups, 3 Ring Muscle-Ups, then Max-Rep Squat Snatches (225/155 lb) on remaining time.

This is the event format the CrossFit Games perfects better than any other format in the sport. An ascending ladder that tests every gymnastics capacity, clears into a barbell maxout, and rewards athletes who can execute under oxygen debt across wildly different movement patterns.

The final workout also serves a narrative function: it should determine the champion. In 2025, it confirmed what the points already said.

Men's Results

1st: Jayson Hopper

His gymnastics held up throughout the ladder. The strict handstand push-ups (which are the great equalizer — athletes who can do these fast in competition are rare) were completed in two sets without significant hesitation. His muscle-up transitions were efficient. He arrived at the snatch ladder with time remaining and posted 8 reps at 225 lbs under fatigue, which was the top snatch count.

He finished the event first. He became CrossFit Games champion.

2nd: Brent Fikowski — The endurance veteran's gymnastics are excellent and he completed the ladder efficiently. His snatch ladder posted 6 reps. Second on the final event.

3rd: James Sprague — Third on the final. The day three story for Sprague was one of the genuine narratives of the Games.

Women's Results

1st: Haley Adams

Adams' gymnastics were, by any measure, the best of the women's field. Strict handstand push-ups — unbroken. Toes-to-bar — unbroken. Chest-to-bar — unbroken. Bar muscle-ups — 5 reps, unbroken. Ring muscle-ups — 3 reps, unbroken. She arrived at the snatch ladder with more time remaining than any other woman and posted 11 reps at 155 lbs. She won the event going away.

2nd: Tia-Clair Toomey

And Tia-Clair Toomey did what Tia-Clair Toomey does. She completed the ladder, arrived at the snatch, posted 9 reps at 155 lbs (the second-highest women's count), and finished 2nd in the event. Second in the final. First in the Games. 8th title.

She did not collapse at the finish line. She stood up, looked at her score, and nodded.

3rd: Aimee Cringle

A podium on the final event capped an extraordinary Games for the UK athlete. Third on the ladder, third overall at the Games. A result that will define British CrossFit's trajectory.

Final Standings

Men

1. Jayson Hopper — First Games title 2. Brent Fikowski — Consistent excellence 3. Jeff Adler — Barbell dominance 4. Roman Khrennikov — Fourth, again just off 5. James Sprague — Best debut performance 6. Lazar Đukić 7. Patrick Vellner 8. Dallin Pepper 9. Ricky Garard 10. Samuel Kwant

Women

1. Tia-Clair Toomey — 8th title 2. Haley Adams — Closest to breaking through 3. Aimee Cringle — Historic UK result 4. Laura Horvath — Defending champion, 4th 5. Bethany Shadburne 6. Dani Speegle 7. Emily Rolfe 8. Lucy Campbell — UK second top-10 9. Arielle Loewen 10. Alexis Raptis

The Championship Moments

When Hopper's score locked in, he dropped to the floor. Not collapsed — dropped, like a man choosing to absorb the moment physically because standing felt insufficient. His coaching team met him on the floor.

When Toomey's title was confirmed, she hugged her support team, found her husband Shane Orr (who coaches her), and held on for a long time. Eight titles. Nobody in the history of this sport knows what that number feels like except her.

The double celebration was one of the better scenes in CrossFit Games history. Two champions, two different stories, one arena.

What Day 3 Told Us

Hopper's title is legitimate across all domains. He won endurance (Day 1), strength (heavy lifting, Day 2), and the all-around final (Day 3). That's not a lucky championship.

Toomey's fitness is not declining. If anything, the post-pregnancy return has given her a settled, unhurried composure that makes her even harder to beat. She doesn't panic. She executes.

Adams needs to convert. 2nd overall is her best result. She won three events across the three days. She didn't win the championship because Toomey's consistency is nearly unbeatable. This is Adams' recurring challenge — she can win individual events; she needs a championship strategy.

Cringle's 3rd is historic. Full stop.

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Full results and analysis: - [Men's Leaderboard and Analysis](/articles/crossfit-games-2025-mens-results) - [Women's Leaderboard and Analysis](/articles/crossfit-games-2025-womens-results) - [Top 10 Moments of the 2025 Games](/articles/crossfit-games-2025-key-moments)