2015 CrossFit Games

• 500 meter ocean swim
• 2 mile paddle
• 500 meter ocean swim

For the fourth straight year, the CrossFit Games began on the Wednesday before the traditional weekend events. The Games have started with a swim every year since 2011, with this year's event consisted of 500 meters of ocean swimming, followed by two miles of paddling on a paddleboard, and finished with another 500 meters of ocean swimming.

Jonne Koski won the event for the men and Kara Webb won for the women.

The athletes moved weighted sandbags across the tennis stadium in the StubHub Center. They started by carrying/dragging the sandbags from the top of the stadium down to the floor, used a wheelbarrow to take them to the other side, and then pushed them over a wall and carried them to the top of the stadium. The men had to move 720 pounds and the women had 480 pounds total weight of sandbags. This event was nearly identical to an event held in 2010 except that the weight was increased and the wheelbarrows were specially made to handle the weight.

Lukas Högberg and Anna Tunnicliffe won the event men's and women's events, respectively.

While wearing a weighted vest:

• 1 mile run
• 100 pull-ups
• 200 push-ups
• 300 air squats
• 1 mile run

CrossFit's most famous hero workout, named for fallen sailor US Navy SEAL Lt. Michael P. Murphy, usually performed by American affiliates on Memorial Day. The weighted vests are 20lbs. for men and 14lbs. for the women.

Björgvin Karl Guðmundsson won the men's event and Samantha Briggs won the women's. Samantha Briggs finished the event faster than any of the men aside from Guðmundsson.

Three rounds of:

• 5 squat snatches

Within each round, each snatch is heavier than the last (a "ladder"), and the starting weight increases each round. Those who complete the ladder the fastest move on to the next round. Jon Pera won the men's event and Brooke Ence won the women's.

Five rounds for time, with a 205-pound barbell for the men and a 145-pound barbell for the women:

• 12 Deadlifts
• 9 hang power cleans
• 6 jerks

"DT" is a CrossFit hero workout named for fallen airman USAF SSgt. Timothy P. Davis, and usually performed with a 155-pound/105-pound barbell for men/women. Ben Smith won the men's event and Ragnheiður Sara Sigmundsdottir won the women's.

A sprint across the soccer field at the StubHub Center through four pylons in a zig-zag and over four hurdles. Sprint Course 1 started with the four pylons followed by the hurdles and Sprint Course 2 was in the opposite direction after one minute of rest.

Dan Bailey won both events for the men and Lindy Barber won Sprint Course 1 for the women while Kristin Holte won Sprint Course 2.

• 100 foot "Pig" flip
• 4 legless rope climbs
• 100 foot handstand walk

The event took place on the soccer field and started with flipping a weighted box called a "pig". The box weight was 560 pounds for the men and 395 for the women, and the length was over 6 feet, making the flips more difficult than shorter objects that many athletes had trained with. The first two legless rope climbs were done on a 2-inch diameter rope and the last two on a 1.5-inch diameter rope. The handstand walks had to be completed in 50-foot unbroken increments.

Ben Smith won the event for the men and Elisabeth Akinwale won for the women.

• 1 rep max Clean & Jerk

Each athlete gets two 20-second windows in which to attempt their heaviest clean and jerk for one repetition.

Aaron Hanna won the event with a 350-pound lift for the men and Brooke Ence won with a 242-pound lift for the women.

15–10–6 repetitions of:

• Thrusters
• Bar muscle-ups

Named "Triangle Couplet" because the repetitions per round are all triangular numbers. A thruster in CrossFit is a combination of a front squat and push press in one continuous movement and the weights were 165-pounds for the men and 115-pounds for the women. A bar muscle-up is a pull-up variant in which the athlete pulls themselves over the top of the pull-up bar and finishes with the bar at their hips.

Mathew Fraser won for the men and Camille Leblanc-Bazinet won for the women.

Six rounds of:

• 400 meter run
• 50 foot yoke carry

The event took place inside the soccer stadium with the 400 meter run going up the stadium stairs, behind the jumbotron, and down the stars on the other side. The yoke, weighing 380 pounds for the men and 300 pounds for the women, was carried 300 feet across the soccer field.

Jacob Heppner won for the men and Samantha Briggs won for the women.

• 3 peg board ascents
• 24-calorie row
• 16-calorie bike
• 8 dumbbell squat snatches

The peg board ascents involved climbing a peg board using only two wooden pegs. The 24 calories were rowed on a Concept-2 rowing machine. The 16 calories were pedaled on an Assault AirBike. The dumbbell squat snatches are performed with a 100-pound/70-pound dumbbell for the men/women respectively and done with alternating arms.

Spencer Hendel won for the men and Margaux Alvarez for the women.

• 12 parallette deficit handstand push-ups
• 24-calorie row
• 16-calorie bike
• 8 kettlebell deadlifts

This event took place two minutes after Event 12. The handstand push-ups were performed against a wall. The row and bike were identical to the previous event. The deadlifts were performed with a 203-pound/124-pound (men/women) kettlebell in each hand, and after every two lifts, the weights were carried forward.

Spencer Hendel won again for the men and Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir won for the women.

* — Steve Marino originally finished in second place in the 55-59 division but was later disqualified for use of an anabolic agent. Heikens and Gantz were each moved up one position.