Gabriela Migala
3rd Fittest teen on Earth in 2016, Individual Europe Regional Athlete in 2018 and CrossFit Games athlete in 2019.
Gabriela competed at the CrossFit Games for the first time in 2016 as a teen and finished third. Now aged 21, the Polish athlete has been the country’s National Champion every year since 2017 (and 2016 as a teen).
She is no stranger to competition and being on the top spot having, for example, won the first event of the Europe Regionals in 2018, ahead of Laura Horvarth, Kristin Holte, Sara Sigmundsdottir and Annie Thorisdottir.
The young athlete has just finished the CrossFit Open ranked 17th worldwide and is in contention for her third ticket to the Games as Poland’s National Champion and Top 20 Open athlete once results have been confirmed.
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Karin Freyova
An up-and-coming athlete, Karin Freyova has been incredibly successful these last two seasons, winning local European competitions like the German Throwdown, the Spanish Throwdown and the Australian Throwdown.
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Slovakia’s National Champion since 2016, she was progressively improved her Open performances to finish 9th worldwide in 2020. She was two spots away from qualifying to the CrossFit Games at the 2018 Regionals and, stepping onto the Games in 2019 for the first time she finished 21st.
Last season, Karin finished 4th at the Dubai CrossFit Championship and nearly won it. “She’s already got some impressive credentials that make her a woman worth knowing about at the beginning of this new season,” the Dubai CrossFit Championship wrote about her.
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Camilla Salomonsson Hellman
The Swedish athlete has been in the game for quite some time. She has competed at Regionals every year since 2011 and qualified to the CrossFit Games three times, twice as an individual and once as part of CrossFit Nordic.
She tried her hand at various sports since the age of 6 and, being a qualified aerobics coach, Hellman started out at CrossFit in 2011. She has since gone on to become a qualified trainer and found herself competing at the top level for CrossFit Nordic.
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Last year, Camilla finished the Open ranked 27th worldwide, a position she went on to beat this year as she finished 13th (pending confirmation). Four years running now, she was been crowned Fittest in Sweden.
When she’s not training herself she coaches other people.
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Andrea Solberg
Many are just hearing her name for the first time this season, but the young Norwegian athlete is a two-times Regionals competitor and winner of big competitions like the Aphrodite Games and the Norwegian Throwdown.
This season alone, Solberg has stepped on the podium on both Sanctionals she’s taken part in: the Filthy 150 and the SouthFit CrossFit Challenge, becoming the first athlete to earn a CrossFit Games invite through Sanctionals this season.
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She is, at the same time, studying to become a doctor. Although she has stopped her studies for a year now to be able to train more and take CrossFit to the next level.
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Emilia Leppanen
The Finnish athlete punched her ticket to the Games for the first time last year as a National Champion, but that’s not to say she wasn’t close before. She’s been a Regionals athlete every year since 2014 with consistently improving performances, finishing 10th in 2018.
The 32-year-old athlete has been doing sports for over 25 years and has a background in rhythmic gymnastics and dancing. Her CrossFit Games dream payed off after five years, and she’ll be repeating the trip this year as she proved again to be Finland’s Fittest Woman.
In addition to her own CrossFit training, Emilia has coached people in Finland, the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland.
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Julie Hougård
A doctor at the university of Southern Denmark, Julie Hougård is no stranger to hard work. She was a full-time student when she took onto the Open in 2019 and became Denmark’s Fittest Woman, punching so her first ticket to the CrossFit Games.
After the 2020 Open she doubled her feat, being crowned National Champion for a second time and finishing the Open ranked 74th worldwide.
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