CrossFit Open winners
The 2026 CrossFit Open finished its first stage with Colten Mertens and Lucy Campbell taking top honors — the Open ran Feb. 26–Mar. 11 as the entry point for Games qualification (fitnessvolt.com). Their wins set momentum for the season’s next rounds and leaderboard movement heading into regionals and the Games pathway (fitnessvolt.com).
Colten Mertens closed the Open’s men’s leaderboard with 9 points; Peter Ellis finished second with 20 points and Jeffrey Adler third with 26 points. (games.crossfit.com) Lucy Campbell finished the women’s leaderboard on 17 points; Mirjam von Rohr was second with 19 points and Leah Støren third with 49 points. (games.crossfit.com) Mertens’ week-by-week placings were 3rd in 26.1 (11:16), 5th in 26.2 (6:20), and the workout-best 13:46 in 26.3, giving him a nine-point total on the official leaderboard. (games.crossfit.com) Campbell’s three scores read 2nd in 26.1 (10:34), 4th in 26.2 (6:50) and 11th in 26.3 (14:29) on the CrossFit Games Open standings. (games.crossfit.com) Individual workout winners included Mirjam von Rohr (9:50) and Bjarni Leifs (10:59) topping 26.1, Colin Bosshard posting the fastest 26.2 time at 6:03, and Afroditi Grigoriadi claiming the fastest women’s time in 26.3 (13:26). (thebarbellspin.com) The next stage is Quarterfinals: invitations and the Quarterfinal workouts are scheduled to be sent on March 23, with invitees given until March 30 at 12 p.m. PT to accept and submit scores, and the top 25% from the Open advance to Quarterfinals. (games.crossfit.com) CrossFit describes the Open as drawing “hundreds of thousands” of athletes worldwide and third-party trackers estimated the 2026 field at roughly 300,000 entrants, with the Quarterfinal cutline landing at 31,779th place for men and 26,490th for women to make the top 25%. (games.crossfit.com)
