Wodapalooza 2020 day three recap: Tia-Clair Toomey regains lead over Sara Sigmundsdottir; Cole Sager tops men

Tia Clair Toomey, 26, is back in the lead at the Wodapalooza crossfit sanctional in Miami as the competition enters the final day. She won the first event “shark bait” and came fourth and fourth in two rounds of “nine lives”.

Wodapalooza, running from February 20 to 23, is one of the most competitive sanctionals of the year. Toomey was sitting in second place, behind Icelander Sara Sigmundsdottir, 27, after day two. Sigmundsdottir finished third in the CrossFit Games in 2015 and 2016. Toomey has won the Games three times in a row, more than any other woman.

During shark bait, athletes completed 84 alternative single leg squats, lifted 150lb (68kg) or 100lb (45kg) balls for men and women respectively, over their shoulders, swam 300 metres, then finished with three rounds of 28 alternative single-leg squats and seven over the shoulder balls.

For nine lives, the athletes had to start a workout every minute, on the minute, which involved chest to bar pull ups, clean and jerks, touching toes off a bar from which they hung, and snatches.

Sigmundsdottir came 10th in shark bait and second in both rounds of nine lives.