These two elite women each scored four consecutive event wins at the biggest competition of the offseason.
Last updated on November 14th, 2024
One of the great storylines from the 2024 Rogue Invitational was the four consecutive event win streaks that both Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr and Laura Horvath put together during the competition.
Toomey-Orr won the first four, followed by Horvath with a quartet of her own. Toomey-Orr then won the last of the nine events on the weekend and took the top podium spot.
- This is the second time that Horvath has accomplished this milestone at the Rogue Invitational.
In 2022, Horvath won Events 3 through 6, becoming the first person to win four events in a row at the Rogue Invitational.
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4 in a Row at the Games
The accomplishment of winning four events in a row is even more rare at the CrossFit Games, only happening twice in the competition’s 18-year history. At the 2020 CrossFit Games, Mat Fraser and Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr each won six consecutive events.
- This was 2020, however, and with a field size of only five athletes, many fans would put an asterisk next to these records.
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What About 3 in a Row?
Going back in CrossFit Games history, five athletes have won three events in a row, all of whom have been crowned the Fittest on Earth.
The first to achieve this record was Kristan Clever.
- During the 2010 Games, Clever won a total of five events, including Events 6, 7, and 8, on her way to the Fittest on Earth title.
At the 2013 CrossFit Games, two men crossed the finish line first three times in a row.
- Jason Khalipa started strong, winning Events 2 through 4. Rich Froning had a super Sunday, winning all three events to close out the competition en route to his third consecutive Fittest on Earth Title.
In 2014, Froning won the final three events for the second straight year, as he claimed his fourth and final CrossFit Games crown.
In 2023, Horvath won the “Olympic Total” in the final event on Saturday at the CrossFit Games. She then followed it up by winning the first two events Sunday morning on her way to winning the CrossFit Games.
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Then there is Toomey-Orr. In addition to her six consecutive event wins in 2020, she has five(!) additional three-event win streaks at the CrossFit Games.
- The first was in 2019 when she won “Sprint Triplet,” “Clean,” and “Swim Paddle.”
- She then won the first three events during the online portion of the 2020 competition and had another three-event win streak during the in-person finals at The Ranch.
- In 2021, she had two more three-event win streaks.
Multiple 4+ Event Winners
Going back in CrossFit Games history, only two competitors won four or more events: Kristan Clever won five events at the 2010 CrossFit Games, while Annie Thorisdottir won four.
Branching Out
If we look further than the CrossFit Games and the Rogue Invitational, we can find more cases where athletes have won four consecutive events.
A couple of recent athletes who achieved this are Seungyeon Choi, who took the first four events at the 2022 Far East Throwdown Semifinal. Then there’s Ty Jenkins, who won the first four events in the 16-17-year-old division at the 2023 CrossFit Games.
Unprecedented
It was hard not to be in awe of Toomey-Orr and Horvath’s performances at the 2024 Rogue Invitational. What we didn’t realize at the time was just how unprecedented this was.
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In a field with the best athletes in the world, an athlete has only won four consecutive events once before. The 2010 CrossFit Games was the only time we saw two competitors each win at least four events in a competition.
At the 2024 Rogue Invitational, we saw something that may not happen ever again.
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