A Taiwanese team of four on Sunday finished third in the mixed team event in the Competitor division at the Taichung Power Fitness Grand Prix, one of the largest officially licensed CrossFit competitions in Asia.
Zhu Yu-sen, Lin Li-wei, Hung Tsai-jui and Chen Yi-hsin won US$7,500 for their podium finish in the event for elite-level competitors, plus US$1,500 as the top-ranked Taiwanese team.
A team from South Korea finished first, winning US$12,000, followed by a team from Hong Kong, who won US$9,000.
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Zhu, who has competed individually in many CrossFit competitions overseas, said that he felt nervous ahead of Saturday’s events due to Taiwan’s limited experience hosting competitions of this scale, but he was satisfied with the event’s size and organization.
“Even the foreign competitors told me the event was well organized,” he said, adding that the atmosphere was “really great.”
Many local athletes competed in the Fitness division, showing that CrossFit is gaining popularity in Taiwan, he said.
Chin Hsi-yueh, honorary president of the Chinese Taipei Cultural Leisure and Sport Association, which co-organized the event with the Taichung City Government, said that more than 1,500 athletes registered for events in the Fitness division for grassroots competitors.
Both divisions featured men’s duo, women’s duo, mixed duo and mixed four-person (two men and two women) categories, with participants required to complete a series of high-intensity functional workouts.
Licensed by CrossFit headquarters in the US, the Taichung Power Fitness Grand Prix, the largest CrossFit competition in Taiwan, featured an Asia-leading total prize purse of NT$1 million (US$31,867), the organizers said.
The two-day event drew CrossFit athletes from 13 countries or regions.
In addition to Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong, participants from Japan, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, France, the Czech Republic, the US, Canada, Brazil and Russia also participated in the event.
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