CrossFit, LLC has announced the stages of the 2024 CrossFit Games season. The season will commence with Workout 24.1 of the CrossFit Open on February 29th. Athletes participating in the CrossFit Open will have the opportunity to advance to the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Games, where champions will be crowned in the Adaptive, Age-Group, Individual, and Team Divisions.
The 2024 CrossFit Games season will begin with the CrossFit Open for athletes in the individual, team, and age-group divisions. For adaptive athletes, there will be an Adaptive CrossFit Open by WheelWOD. Athletes who wish to compete throughout the season must register and participate in the three-week long CrossFit Open between February 29th and March 18th, 2024. Various divisions will have expanded opportunities to advance further into the competition season.
Registration for both the CrossFit Open and the Adaptive CrossFit Open by WheelWOD will begin on January 9th, 2024.
Individuals, teams, and age-group athletes will follow the traditional CrossFit Games season by competing in the CrossFit Open, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and each division’s championship event. The WheelWOD organization will host the entire competition season for adaptive athletes from the WheelWOD CrossFit Open through the Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD.
Both the Age-Group and Adaptive Divisions will expand in terms of qualifying spots at each stage of the season. The Adaptive Division will expand to encompass 15 divisions.
The CrossFit Open will mark the start of the season, with three workouts taking place between February 29th and March 18th, 2024.
The Quarterfinals will feature seven regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America East, North America West, Oceania, and South America. Individual and age-group athletes who qualify for the Quarterfinals will have the same programming and only need to complete the workouts once to be represented on both competition leaderboards. The top 25% of individuals and teams in each region will advance to the Quarterfinals, with a minimum of 50 athletes from each division. The top 25% of each age group from every region will also advance to the Quarterfinals, with a minimum of 200 athletes from each age group. The Team Quarterfinal will take place from April 3rd to April 8th, 2024, while the Individual and Age-Group Quarterfinals will take place from April 17th to April 22nd, 2024.
The Semifinals will also feature seven regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America East, North America West, Oceania, and South America. The top 40 individual men and women and the top 30 teams from each region will compete in person at the CrossFit Semifinals. The top 200 athletes from each age group will advance to the virtual Age-Group Semifinal to determine who will move on to the Games. The top 20 athletes from each adaptive division will advance from the Adaptive CrossFit Open by WheelWOD to the virtual Adaptive CrossFit Semifinal by WheelWOD. The Age-Group Semifinal and Adaptive CrossFit Semifinal will both take place from May 8th to May 13th, 2024.
The venues, dates, and number of CrossFit Games qualifying spots by region for the individual and team Semifinal competitions will be announced at a later date.
The CrossFit Games will feature separate, in-person championships for individuals and teams, teenagers, masters, and adaptive athletes. The top men, women, and teams in the world will compete at the 2024 CrossFit Games in Fort Worth, Texas, from August 8th to August 11th, 2024. The top masters from the Age-Group Semifinal will advance to the Masters CrossFit Games by Legends, with the location and competition dates to be announced later. The Teenage CrossFit Games by Pit Teen Throwdown will feature the top 30 boys and girls from the teenage divisions who advanced from the Semifinals. The location and competition dates will also be confirmed at a later date. The Adaptive CrossFit Games by WheelWOD will include the top 10 adaptive athletes from 15 divisions who advanced from the Adaptive CrossFit Semifinal by WheelWOD. The location and competition dates for this event will also be confirmed at a later date.
The CrossFit Games season is set to begin in just 114 days and will feature over 320,000 athletes from 180 countries competing.
About CrossFit, LLC:
CrossFit, LLC is the owner of the CrossFit fitness brand. It has grown from a garage gym in Santa Cruz, California, into the world’s most popular and effective training program for improving health and performance. CrossFit, LLC provides accredited, performance-based training courses and certifications, and has over 125,000 credentialed coaches worldwide. The CrossFit program can be scaled to accommodate people of all ages and abilities, and is practiced in over 13,000 affiliated gyms across 155 countries. CrossFit, LLC also organizes the CrossFit Games season, which is the world’s largest participatory sporting event.
