Winter Soldiers (Qualifiers)

Winter Soldiers is back again to finish off your competitive year!

Finals Date: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November 2025

Qualifier Dates:

Q1

Released: 12/08/25

Deadline: 18/08/25 (this is also the deadline to sign up to the competition)

Q2

Released: 19/08/25

Deadline: 25/08/25

Q3

Released: 26/08/25

Deadline: 01/09/25

* Athletes may request a reasonable in exceptional circumstances, if you would like to request one please contact info@graftevents.co.uk . All late submissions will require a £5 admin fee to be paid. Please note you cannot request an extension to redo your workout following scoring penalties.

Finals Venue: Hall 2, NAEC Stoneleigh, Coventry, CV82LZ

This competition is for Mixed Fours (2M & 2F), Same Sex Fours and Mixed Pairs. All teams will compete over 1 day at the finals.

To sign up to direct entry fours click here : https://competitioncorner.net/events/15591

Direct Entry Fours Divisions:

Fitness (Sunday 16th)

Throwdown (Saturday 15th)

Compete (Sunday 16th)

Mixed Pairs Divisions:

Scaled (Finals: Saturday 15th Nov)

Middle Ground (Finals: Sunday 16th Nov)

Rx (Finals: Saturday 15th Nov)

Elite (Finals: Saturday 15th Nov)

All athletes will compete on just one day at the finals, to win a spot on the final GRAFT podium of the year!

Compete fours and Elite pairs will be competing for a cash prize pool and all other divisions that make it to the podium will receive a prize bag from a prize pot worth £1000s!

All pairs divisions will enter the event via qualifiers, the qualifiers will be completed as an individual and then a total score will be taken from the addition of all team members scores added together. This is to allow people to team up with others who may train at other gyms, have different work schedules etc! Qualifier workouts are completed to determine which teams of two make it through to the live finals, the qualifying numbers mentioned above are the number of pairs that will continue from the qualifiers to the finals in November.

Key Finals Timings (15th & 16th November 2025)

Athlete Registration: 07:45 AM

Athlete Briefing 08:10 AM

First Workout: 09:00 AM 

Podiums: 05:00 PM

End: 05:20 PM

Movement Standards

Scaled:

This division is for scaled athletes that are new to the sport. Scaled athletes will complete lower weighted and lower skilled workouts. Weights and movements that you could expect to see programmed for this division include:

Single Unders

Jerk @ 45/30 KG

Clean @ 60/40 KG

Snatch @ 40/25 KG

Deadlift @ 80/50 KG

1 x Dumbbell @ 22.5/15 KG

2 x Dumbbells @ 15/10 KG

Middle Ground: 

The division for the intermediate athlete. Weights and movements that you could expect to see programmed in this division include: 

Double Unders (or higher reps of single unders)

Pull Ups

Toes To Bar

Clean & Jerk @ 60/40 KG 

Snatch @ 50/35 KG

Deadlift @ 100/70 KG

Overhead Squat @ 50/35KG 

2 x Dumbbells @ 22.5/15 KG 

In some instances athletes may be given the option to choose to perform a higher skilled movement in place of another. 

Rx/Elite:

This division is for the more experienced Rx level athlete. Weights and movements you could expect to see programmed in this division include: 

Double Unders

All Gymnastic Movements (only 1 person needs to HSW)

Clean & Jerk @ 85/60 KG

Snatch @ 60/40 KG

Deadlift @ 120/85 KG

Overhead Squat @ 60/40 KG

2 x Dumbbells @ 22.5/15 KG

During the qualifiers any score amendments requested by an athlete will be completed with a £5 admin fee.

Once leaderboard is live, the 'RX' and 'Elite' divisions will be split depending on the team placement, if any athletes do not accept their invitation to the Elite category, the next team in RX on the leaderboard will be automatically moved in to Elite.

This competition does not offer refunds, there is the option to add ticket insurance through an external company. 

One day of competition not enough? Join us on the opposite day to take on our GRAFT Hybrid course with your team mate. GRAFT Hybrid is a set fitness course where you can race against teams nationally and internationally to fight for the top place on our all time leader board! Running in mixed and same sex pairs, in beginner through to pro divisions, with open age, masters and teens categories! Find our more here: https://competitioncorner.net/events/15593/details 

DSLR / Professional cameras are prohibited at the finals event without a media pass, media will be produced by our in house media team. If you would like to enquire about purchasing a media pass to allow you to bring your camera in to capture content please contact info@graftevents.co.uk no later than 3rd October 2025.