The 2017 CrossFit Games season gets started at the end of February, and the newly updated rulebook and drug-testing program have been officially released.
Among the changes are a new Masters 35-39 division, adjustments to how athletes who fail to submit a score are ranked in comparison to the RX and Scaled divisions, and newly upgraded prize pools to make good on a promise from three years ago. In 2014, title sponsor Reebok announced it would increase the Games' prize purse annually until it hits $3 million in 2020.
Here are the new CrossFit Games cash prizes:
Top Overall Finish - Individual Athletes (male and female):
Among the changes are a new Masters 35-39 division, adjustments to how athletes who fail to submit a score are ranked in comparison to the RX and Scaled divisions, and newly upgraded prize pools to make good on a promise from three years ago. In 2014, title sponsor Reebok announced it would increase the Games' prize purse annually until it hits $3 million in 2020.
Here are the new CrossFit Games cash prizes:
Top Overall Finish - Individual Athletes (male and female):
- First place: $285,000
- Second place: $100,000
- Third place: $70,000
- Fourth place: $45,000
- Fifth through eighth place: $30,000; $26,000; $24,000 and $22,000, respectively
- Ninth through 20th place: $20,000; $18,000; $15,000; $13,000; $12,000; $11,000; $10,000; $9,000; $8,000; $7,000; $6,000 and $5,000, respectively
- First place: $3,000
- Second place: $2,000
- Third place: $1,000
- First place: $10,000
- Second place: $5,000
- Third place: $3,000
- First place: $100,000
- Second place: $60,000
- Third place: $30,000
- Fourth place: $20,000
- Fifth place: $15,000