On August 8th at 7 a.m. CT, the first event of the 2024 CrossFit Games kicked off starting with a 3.5 mile run around Marine Creek Lake followed by a 800m swim across the lake to the other side.

At approximately 7:38 a.m. during the final 250 feet of the swim portion of Event 1, Lazar Ðukić went under the water and did not come back up. 

This article is an effort to document and reconstruct to the best of my ability, the events that occurred on August 8, 2024 at Marine Creek Lake. 

Everything contained herein is supported by verifiable fact or direct, eyewitness testimony.

As we approach the end of the year, rumors have been circulating about what the 2025 CrossFit Games season will hold, both for everyday athletes and elites. 

Here’s what we’ve heard.

For the last two seasons, the CrossFit Games team has released a Worldwide Ranking (WWR) based on its own scoring system. 

The last update to the WWR was on June 5, 2024, shortly after the conclusion of the Semifinals.

Along with the last top 100 women and men that the CrossFit Games team released in the early summer, they also released a points matrix for the Semifinals and for the CrossFit Games.

With the withdrawals of Games athletes after Lazar Đukić’s death in Fort Worth, the rumors of a new season structure for 2025, and much of the community waiting on the results of the third-party investigation, there is every reason under the sun to explain why CrossFit hasn’t released an updated worldwide ranking since June.

That said, we went ahead and updated it for them — unofficially, of course. Here are the top 15 women as it currently stands.

Full report of Men & Women Leaderboards before & after penalties were assessed.

Last week, Morning Chalk Up managing editor Joe Genetin-Pilawa and I sat down with Chris Hinshaw, founder of Aerobic Capacity, to chat about some of the running-related events already announced for the 2024 CrossFit Games. 

“I think that this combination, what Dave did, it’s outstanding.

July 30 2024 by Mike Halpin

Rookies.

They’re a new name to cheer on. Underestimated talent that, beyond a few days at Semifinals or rumblings from some local or regional competitions, the world hasn’t yet had the chance to watch perform.

Some years, we can anticipate which of these newcomers will make a splash. Other times, it’s not so clear-cut.

July 29, 2024 by Mike Halpin

In his recent interview with Matt O’Keefe, CEO of HWPO Training, Dave Castro announced a preliminary version of his new idea for awarding the training camp whose athletes performed best in the Individual Division at the CrossFit Games this year.

July 24, 2024 by Mike Halpin

Once the Semifinals are over and the CrossFit Games athletes are decided, it’s athlete interview season…

July 8, 2024 by Mike Halpin

The first year of team competition at the CrossFit Games was in 2009 at The Ranch in Aromas, CA…

June 24, 2024 by Mike Halpin

Just before the Individual and Team Semifinals kicked off in May, CrossFit Games announced the total prize purse for the 2024 season…

June 14, 2024 by MIKE HALPIN

All 40 women and 40 men who will compete this August in Fort Worth, TX, at the 2024 CrossFit Games have competed in all 13 events from the Open through the Semifinals…

May 23, 2024 by Mike Halpin

The first week of the 2024 CrossFit Games Semifinals kicked off in Décines-Charpieu, France, at the LDLC Arena…

March 20, 2024 by Mike Halpin

The 2024 CrossFit Open is officially closed!

How was it? Did you hit your goal or come up short? Did you make the 25-percent cut for Quarterfinals?…

March 13, 2024 by Mike Halpin

What Was Your First Open Like? Do you remember that day? I remember mine. I started CrossFit in my garage, as many people may have, in 2020 after my local YMCA shut down. I picked up random workouts to do from Instagram…