Brisbane games wrap up

What a blast! Thank-you to all of the competitors, volunteers and spectators that made yesterday's 2009 Hard'nup Challenge a resounding success.

Full results for all competitors will be published this week, please stay tuned. We will also be posting photos from the event.

The winners were:-

2009 Hard'nup Champion (overall winner)

Men - Peter Maxwell, 220kg Deadlift, 2.34 times bodyweight

Women - Emma Teede, 110kg Deadlift, 1.6 times bodyweight, (tied with Kylie Lindbeck, victory awarded by countback)

Winner workout #1

Men - Peter Maxwell & Michael Shaw, tied in 3.03 (reps completed unbroken!)

Women - Amanda Chalmers, 6.43

Winner workout #2

Men - Doug Armstrong, 13 rounds and 1 rep completed

Women - Emma Teede, 9 rounds completed

Hard'nup Award for Best & Fairest

Michael Shaw

Well done!

Special mention to:-

Jonnie Larmore, 20kg PB in the deadlift competition

Kylie Lindbeck, gracious in defeat despite losing by the smallest margin on countback

Very Special Thanks to:-

Danny Mellor for doing a superb job running the competition area, under significant pressure
Taz Venter, Darren Coughlan & Rob Downton for travelling the comp despite being unable to compete and spending the entire day judging and coaching
All the volunteers who continued to come forward to help for the entire day
Ap, Bec, Kelsey, Bel, Jesse, Clay, Ian and the rest of the CFB crew that manned the desk at various times throughout the day
Nick McAlinden, Jimmy King and Brad Fraser for photography. Brad deserves special mention, he gave up his entire day and took a staggering 2600 photos
Max Watterson for painstakingly entering and compiling results
The people who traveled to get here and the affiliates that supported the event. The CrossFit community was strongly represented by CrossFit Base, CFX, CrossFit Coastal, CrossFit Coolum Beach, CrossFit Gold Coast, CrossFit Newcastle, CrossFit NorWest, CrossFit NQ, CrossFit Penrith, CrossFit SEQ, CrossFit OM, CrossFit NZ, CrossFit Sunshine Coast
The injured people who registered, couldn't compete but showed up anyway to support
The spectators, for shouting themselves hoarse and supporting the competitors so well during the day
Lee & Lori, Rookie and Chris for loaning gear
and so many others ... thankyou everyone that contributed