Chest-to-bar Pull ups and Overhead Squats: 15.2 is Done

We thought Kara’s 416 score was impossible to beat. At least until we saw this morning that Natalie Newhart topped the leaderboard with an incredible 441 reps.

Natalie Newhart, 29-year-old from Backcountry CrossFit, South West region, dominated in 15.2 scoring 6 reps more than Josh Bridges who won the men’s division with 435 points. That performance almost lead her to finished the 7th round of 22 reps. Camille Leblanc-Bazined finished 2^nd, improved her last year’s score from 404 to 427, and Kara Webb came 3^rd. Bridges was ahead of Ben Smith (433) and Dakota Rager (427).

Kara Webb in her round of 22 reps.

Will Kane and Annie Thorisdottir won 15.2 in Europe

Will Kane from CrossFit Cheltenham pulled the strongest performance (408 reps) in Europe, which also placed him 8^th worldwide. With 53 reps less Jonne Koski finished 2^nd ahead of Frederik Aegidius, Numi Katrinarson and Steven Fawcett.

After two weeks of the CrossFit Open 2015 Steven Fawcett shares overall number one spot together with Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson.

Annie Thorisdottir won 15.2 in women’s division which now also puts her into the leading position overall. With 347 reps Thuridur Erla Helgadottir came 2^nd and Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir placed 3^rd.

Overall, first three spots are currently dominated by Icelandic women, Annie, Sara and Katrin Tanja, but Emma McQuaid from CrossFit 8020, Northern Ireland climbed up the chart and now sits on 4th place.

15.2 killed me – 154 rep better than last year #blonyx #blonyxstrong #SYSTM #fitcriminal #crossfit8020 #crossfitopen

A photo posted by Emma Mcquaid (@mcquaid175) on Mar 9, 2015 at 2:00pm PDT

Overall European standings after 15.2

Annie Thorisdottir topped women leaderboard, while Steven Fawcett and Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson are leading the men’s category. In Team divison CrossFit Reykjavík – Virtuosity leads ahead of CrossFit Solid and CrossFit JST Black.

Category, leading male and female:

Teenage 14-15:
Kristaps Simsons
Filippa Ferm

Teens 16-17:
Bryan Hernández
Klaudia Dabrowska

Masters 40-44:
Konstadinos Karagiorgos
Jenny Jacobsen

Masters 45-49:
Scott Jenkins
Maria Blumenthal

Masters 50-54:
Christian Galy
Marion Valkenburg

Masters 55-59:
Lars Boss Thomsen
Framboise Labat

Masters 60+:
Magnús Sigurðsson
Joke Dikhoff

Steve Griffiths (61 yrs) finished his 15.2 with 64 reps.

This year Europe has only 30 spots that lead on to the CrossFit Regionals. The change is due to the new strategy that combines Europe with Africa into a new Meridian Super Region. Becky Pykett, currently 40th overall in Europe, pointed out an interesting fact. Do you agree?

This super region system to try to find the fittest in the world what the @crossfitgames have decided to do this year, I believe isn’t the best way of doing it. Currently I’m sat 40th in Europe and currently outside the top 30 to go but if I was in Africa, I’d be in 3rd place and would be way within a qualifying spot to go to Regionals! Maybe, if they’re trying to condense the numbers, what they should have done is combine the regions for the Open and top 40 across both regions, go to the Europe Regionals? Just my opinion. How are the 10 girls from Africa going to compete with the top girls in Europe? Anyway, time to put my foot on the throttle and work harder to keep up there with the Europeans! Bring on 15.3. #immovingtodubai #onlykidding #trainsmart #workharder #getbackupthere #stillfighting

A photo posted by beckypykett (@beckypykett) on Mar 10, 2015 at 3:20am PDT

Next workout comes out on Friday morning (2 am CET, 1 am GMT time). What do you think Dave Castro will programme us next?

Title photos by RXd Photography.

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