Italian Showdown 2023

Beginners at their very first experience, intermediate competitors and elite athletes play side by side on the same game floor… It’s much more than a race, it’s a fest for thousands of fitness enthusiasts.

No qualification, no elimination

The Italian Showdown will take place on June 2-3-4 at the Rimini Expo Center with RiminiWellness, the international event dedicated to fitness, sport and movement.

• No online qualification: just register and take to the field live against your peers in three ability levels.
• No elimination and no cut: you can give your all and prove yourself until the final workout, without the risk of being eliminated for a test gone wrong.

Categories and standards

Whatever your ability level and age, you can compete live in the right category for you. To make sure you choose the category that best suits your level of fitness, refer to the following indicative standards:

• Experience (18 years old and over): you don’t have all the skills, usually do Scaled workouts and you like to compete to test yourself; in a workout you are able to move loads of at least 25/40Kg and perform Knees to Chest at the bar. NO Pull up, NO Toes to bar, NO Handstand, NO Double Under.
• Intermediate (18 years old and over): you already have almost all the skills, usually do Rx workouts and you like to compete to overcome your limits; in a workout you are able to move loads of at least 40/60Kg and perform Pull up, Toes to bar, Handstand Push up and Double Under. NO Muscle-up, NO Handstand Walk.
• Elite (18 to 34 years old): you already have all the skills, always do Rx workouts and you can compete against the best athletes; in a workout you are able to move loads of at least 60/80Kg and perform Muscle-up, Chest to bar, Toes to bar, Handstand Push up, Handstand Walk and Double Under.
• Master (35, 40, 45, 50 years old): like the Elite, you have all the skills and you are able to compete against the best athletes of your age; in a workout you are able to move loads and perform movements appropriate to your age, according to the Age Group standards of the CrossFit Open.

ATTENTION: for the choice of the Master category, what matters is the age you turn in the year 2023. For example, if you turn 40 this year, your category is Master 40, regardless of the day and month you are born.

Available slots

For the 2023 edition of the Italian Showdown there are 672 slots for three divisions (Team, Individual, Age Group) and 15 categories by skill / gender / age, based on the following quotas for direct access to the live competition:

Team

• Experience MMF: 24

Individual

• Experience M/F: 96/72
• Intermediate M/F: 144/72
• Elite M/F: 96/24

Age Group

• Master 35 M: 24
• Master 40 M/F: 24/12
• Master 45 M/F: 12/12
• Master 50 M: 12

The number of available slots could be varied to meet the actual demand for registration for each category.

Competition schedule

The competition will have a different duration for each category: 1 day for Team Experience, 2 days for Individual Experience, 3 days for Individual Intermediate / Elite and for all age ranges of Age Group.

All athletes will perform all the workouts scheduled for each category, without eliminations and without cuts. The final leaderboard will be based on the scores of all workouts and the top-3 athletes in each category will get on the podium. 

Team Experience (1-day competition)

• Friday: 1 event with 3 workouts

Individual Experience (2-day competition)

• Saturday: 1 event with 3 workouts
• Sunday: 1 event with 2 workouts

Intermediate, Elite, Master (3-day competition)

• Friday: 1 event with 1 workout
• Saturday: 1 event with 2 workouts
• Sunday: 1 event with 2 workouts

All workouts will be programmed so that they can be performed within a single daily event for each category, with a short break in between or consecutively. Each athlete will be busy only in the morning or only in the afternoon.