Start UP Games - Bcross Challenge 2019 - REPORT!
Author: Václav Mráz 
We have successfully completed the first race of the Bcross Challenge series. This race was for individuals.
Out of 140 registered athletes, 95 athletes made it through qualification to the actual race.
Category
- SPORT men and women
- MASTERS men
- ELITE women
What is the competition?
When competing, we are looking for the best prepared athlete who must be as versatile as possible. We combine disciplines from gymnastics, fitness and strength training - weightlifting.
Come and see what awaited the competitors. They learned the workouts 36 hours before the actual competition.
Sport WOD
ELITE and MASTERS WODs
According to the composition of the individual workouts, it can be seen that the difficulty increases every year. For the sport category, there are more difficult gymnastics, such as handstands and muscleups. Bcross Challenge have been known to make the sport category more difficult from the start.
The main creator of the workouts is one of the best CrossFitters in our country Petr Schlegel, who owns a CrossFit gym in Hradec Kralove called CrossFit Steel Wings.
We have been cooperating with Petr for three years now and we appreciate our mutual cooperation.
This time Petr also took the position of head judge, where he supervised everything directly in the competition arena.
I'm sure you can all look forward to more games, which will be the highlight of our 2019 season.
Both the competitions and the level of athletes is really going up. We are happy to see that CrossFit has been spreading to more and more people lately.
You can definitely check out the workouts, among the results you will find how you would do at a race.
The sport category started the day with a KTB and a combination of rope climb. Daniela Maleňáková and Denis Mudřík entered the competition by winning this workout.
The elite and mastert had each workout different. To start, they had a squat snatch combined with MDC TTB, which gave a lot of athletes a problem. Ondra pokorny, who is a regular podium finisher at our competitions, handled it best among the elites. From the masters category, Fanda Heribán did it in 6:00.
The second workout consisted of heavier dumbbells and heavier gymnastics. The unpopular Thruster 9,7,5,3- front squat with expression for most and BAR MU 7,5,3,1 for the guys, CH2B chest touch squat for the girls. This was one of the harder wods for the novice athletes, but they did great. For example Lukas Cerny or Petr Pozarek gave their first muscle up and repeated it several times.
Lubos Novak and Vlastimil Uher showed an incredible duel, where Lubos won the workout by 2s. Daniela Maleňáková again kept the victory and 2s behind her finished Pavla Kopicová.
In elite and masters we had the second wod split into two parts. In the first one the athletes had 3 minutes to lift max weight from shoulders to overhead. We could see Ondra Pokorny lifting an incredible 145 kg! Jan Ošlejšek won the masters with 137,5 kg.
The second part was with a time limit of six minutes. Englishman with a box crossing, plus in each hand one-handed 22,5 kg. This was best done by Adam Zubek, who fought for the top three from the start. Honza Ošlejšek took care of this part as well and thanks to that he was also in the fight for the crate.
The third workout of the sport category was divided into two parts. The athletes really liked the combination of hand walking and 500m sprint on the oar. The athletes had 2 minutes to walk as many meters as possible on their hands. The minimum distance was 1m. Vojtěch Rozsypal ran the most on his hands, with an incredible 60m! Andrea Skolkova took the first place among the girls with 33 meters.
The second part was on the rowing simulator, where there was a sprint on the oar. Milan Bouška took the first place with a time of 1:23,06 and Pavla Kopicova took the girls' title with a time of 1:39,05.
The elite and masters were waiting for a 14-minute amrap. Here the one with more hope had the advantage. Adam Zubek took the lead by seven reps. F. Heriban gave 500 reps from the master for the whole workout without one.
Nothing was decided before the last workout. The athletes had to give their best performance in order to maintain or move up one step.
Amrap also fell on the sport category and also in 14 minutes. Here Ondra Hach had the last chassis and he gave it his all and deserved the third place overall! Andrea Skolkova did not give the girls a chance and won this wod sovereignly and waited impatiently for the announcement whether there will be the highest position on the podium.
In the elite category it was also not clear until the last moment who would win. There were five rounds in total, one legless rope, three 100/85 repositionings and all finished with strict push-ups for 5 reps.
Aaron Lisý was the fastest to do it in a great 3:18 and waited to see how his opponents would do. Adam Zubek had to be worse than 3rd for Áron to take 2nd overall, as Ondra Pokorný finished 2nd and kept his top position there.
Adam Zubek ended up finishing the wod 4s ahead of fourth place Filip Valouch, so second place went to Adam.
The Masters Category was taken by Fanda Heribán with a clear first place. Second place went to Jakub Šula, who moved ahead of Martin Štěpánek to 3rd place overall.
OVERALL RESULTS
category SPORT men
- Denis Mudrik
- Adam Ondroušek
- Ondřej Hach
category SPORT women
- Daniela Maleňáková
- Kopicová Pavla
- Skolkova Andrea
ELITE
- Ondřej Pokorný
- Adam Zubek
- Aaron Lisý
MASTERS
- František Heribán
- Jan Ošlejšek
- Jakub Šula
Thank you to all participants, fans and partners. A lot of credit goes to the volunteers, of which there were nearly 40. Thanks for the work you do and for moving our level of racing up.
The racers were accompanied by DJ Ramel in the morning and DJ Alex Neires in the afternoon! They are our court DJs and can create a great atmosphere every time.
Also thanks to EREBOS drink, for supporting each racer with a drink, which you can now find in the shop. And of course to bodybuilding.com for the prizes for the winners and the opportunity to keep you informed about our competitions.
We cordially invite everyone to the next games, which should again be the highlight of this season.
In the video you could see what it looked like last year. This year we're going to do it again.
There were 200 competitors with a prize money for the winner of 70.000,- CZK.
Here you can find the race event for more information.
We open registration on June 2 and the week after we will start the qualifying workout, for which the competitors will have 8days.
The capacity of the race will be 130 individuals and 30 teams of two guys and one girl.
Categories ELITE | SPORT | MASTERS | TEAM 2+1
Thank you all again for your support. This is our fifth season and we're moving on!
Martin Balík, Vasek Mráz and Petr Schlegel.
www.bcrosschallenge.com
Take care and keep up the good work!
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