18 Facts About Justin Medeiros

Justin Medeiros is the winner of the 2021 and 2022 CrossFit Games.

Justin Medeiros was a student at Lodi High School where he was a wrestler and football player.

Justin Medeiros took up wrestling after encouragement from his parents as he was not athletic at the time.

Justin Medeiros started CrossFit when he was in seventh grade aged 12 in order to keep himself fit between sports seasons, but became more interested in the sport and dropped football for CrossFit after his high school sophomore year.

Justin Medeiros attended Boise State University where he majored in kinesiology.

Justin Medeiros focused on CrossFit while at Boise because it had cut its wrestling program.

Justin Medeiros then moved to Vancouver, Washington to be with his coach Adam Neiffer as courses were made online for a year due to the Covid pandemic, before returning to Boise to complete his education in 2021.

Justin Medeiros was a wrestler and competed in various competitions in California, including the Sac-Joaquin Section Masters Tournament and the California Interscholastic Federation State Wrestling Championships.

Justin Medeiros first competed in CrossFit in the teen division in 2016.

Justin Medeiros finished 19th and failed to reach the Games.

Justin Medeiros then won the 16-to-18 year old age division at the Wodapalooza CrossFit competition held in Miami in 2017.

At the age of 18, Justin Medeiros competed in individual competition at the California Regional, and was placed 15th.

In 2019, Justin Medeiros earned qualification to the 2020 CrossFit Games after winning the Filthy 150 Sanctional.

Justin Medeiros finished third after Mat Fraser and Samuel Kwant at the Games.

Justin Medeiros did not take over the overall lead until event 7, extending his lead with a second place finish in event 8.

Justin Medeiros held on to this lead, although he still faced challenges from Patrick Vellner and Brent Fikowski in subsequent events.

Justin Medeiros eventually pulled away and sealed his victory with his first ever event win in the final event, beating Patrick Vellner by 82 points to be crowned champion, At the age of 22, Justin Medeiros is the youngest man to have won the Games.

At the 2022 CrossFit Games, Justin Medeiros faced strong challenges from Ricky Garard, who returned after a 4-year ban for drug use, and Roman Khrennikov, who competed in person for the first time despite qualifying for the Games 4 previous times.