Lanzarote is, since this Saturday, the epicenter of the best CrossFit in all of Europe with the celebration of the Lanzarote Summer Challenge 2024, an international tournament of this modality that brings together some of the best athletes of this discipline this weekend on the island of Los Volcanes.
The 224 participating athletes, the best of nearly a thousand applicants, have amazed the large audience with a series of exercises that have tested their strength, endurance, speed, agility and balance. Coinciding with its tenth edition, the event has surprised with a new location, Marina Lanzarote, which joins the previous ones, El Islote de la Fermina and Playa de El Reducto, increasing the number of attendees. Surprise also with the toughest and most demanding tests of its history, one of them at night.
The first wod proposed by the organization, a novelty, has become a true triathlon test: 2,000 meters of rowing, 300 meters of swimming in the sea that has taken them from the impressive corner of El Islote de la Fermina to the Yacht Club and 3 kilometers of running with which they have reached another emblematic place, the Castle of San Gabriel. A true trial by fire only suitable for the brave in which the team formed by Miriam Peña and Soledad Bolaños, female Scale category, who covered the entire test in 57:16 and the pair of Carlos Casado and Jaime Rozalén, RX category, who completed it in 53:03, stood out.
Muscles in pure tension. It was the turn of the strength exercises, premiering the new location that has been added this year to the Lanzarote Summer Challenge, Marina Lanzarote Puerto Deportivo, which brings with it a new attendance record. Full stands and the best atmosphere to enjoy the spectacle of these athletes lifting up to 50 kilos of weight over their heads, performing pine push-ups and demanding pull-ups, an extreme exercise that leads competitors to raise their entire weight suspended on a bar. Outstanding for David Somoza and Rubén Concepción, Master category, who completed the required repetitions in 8 and a half minutes.
It was time to test the heart and endurance, up to 75 burpees (exercises that combine push-ups and vertical jumps) combined with jumps to a box of up to 60 centimeters. After completing this exercise, jump to a very special rope, its ends are joined by a bar. Dexterity and pure cardio to do the highest number of repetitions, which have raised the applause of the public, especially the RX, who have been required to perform double jumps.
The organization keeps another of the great novelties for the final test of the day, already with the forces at the limit, the competitors of the Lanzarote Summer Challenge 2024 will end up measuring themselves in a night test, something unprecedented in the history of this international competition. On this occasion, a combination of squats with lifting up to 120 kilos over their heads. Pure spectacle until late at night in Marina Lanzarote Puerto Deportivo.
This Sunday, from 9:30 the competition moves to another spectacular enclave, El Reducto beach, where athletes will change the exercise mat for the sand to put their muscles and endurance to the limit again. From 14:00 the finals of all the categories that compete, Scale, Intermediate, Master and RX, will be held in Marina Lanzarote Puerto Deportivo.
