One of the last legs of this year’s CrossFit Semifinals saw Asian athletes take center stage.

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Seher Kaya (Individual Women) and Arthur Semenov (Individual Men) are the victors of the 2023 Asia CrossFit Semifinal. According to her page on the CrossFit website, the 2023 iteration of the CrossFit Games this early August in Madison, WI will be Kaya’s second career appearance at the sport’s flagship contest. The athlete finished in 29th place in 2022. Meanwhile, Semenov will try to improve upon his own 2022 Games debut, where he didn’t make the final cut and, as such, didn’t earn an official placing.

On the Teams side of the Asia Semifinal, CrossFit Fly High Kolesnikov Team came out on top. This leg of the 2023 CrossFit Semifinals took place in Busan, South Korea, on June 1-4, 2023.

Here are the final standings and top 20 finishers for the three divisions featured at the 2023 Asia CrossFit Semifinal. As usual, the Individual competitors powered through seven workouts, while the Teams athletes had six on their plate.

Individual Women

  1. Seher Kaya — 664 points
  2. Shahad Budebs — 535 points
  3. Anastasya Dodonova — 525 points
  4. Dawon Jung — 525 points
  5. Or Cohen — 498 points
  6. Kamila Takeyeva — 490 points
  7. Dema Zebdieh — 460 points
  8. Alina Aleksandrova — 442 points
  9. Anastasia Smirnova — 425 points
  10. Gaeun Kim — 412 points
  11. Milana Yakovleva — 402 points
  12. Minjeong Kim — 399 points
  13. Hedieh Veisi — 393 points
  14. Anna Ivanova — 376 points
  15. Florence Wong — 375 points
  16. Raisa Blinova — 366 points
  17. Merve Gokcil — 349 points
  18. Omer Reshef — 328 points
  19. Narges Basiryazdi — 226 points
  20. Heidi Choi — 220 points

Individual Men

  1. Arthur Semenov — 612 points
  2. Morteza Sedaghat — 573 points
  3. Ant Haynes — 560 points
  4. Ilyas Kuliev — 543 points
  5. Andrei Fedotov — 540 points
  6. Anatolii Borisenko — 524 points
  7. Seungjong Kim — 479 points
  8. Kang Kyungsun — 472 points
  9. Ruslan Miftakhov — 439 points
  10. Eren Kim — 402 points
  11. Anton Yakovlev — 384 points
  12. Danny Voronov — 368 points
  13. Jeongheon Yeo — 341 points
  14. Ram Dover — 327 points
  15. Meysam Rohani — 323 points
  16. Changrim An — 306 points
  17. Hyunsu Kim — 301 points
  18. Chen Sheng — 296 points
  19. Mevlüt Agir — 283 points
  20. Yu-sen Zhu — 262 points

Teams

  1. CrossFit Fly High Kolesnikov Team — 590 points
  2. CrossFit Marvel Black — 525 points
  3. Stud CrossFit Team Stud — 485 points
  4. Red Tower CrossFit — 455 points
  5. CrossFit Erada 1 — 455 points
  6. CrossFit We Can Do It TeamBusan — 400 points
  7. CrossFit Pangyo Avenue Swaggers — 390 points
  8. CrossFit Mobilus Chinatown Sour Patch Kids — 370 points
  9. CrossFit Club 49 — 340 points
  10. Yangsan CrossFit Team Thor — 315 points
  11. Innerfight CrossFit DXB — 295 points
  12. N Camp CrossFit Team Kima — 275 points
  13. CrossFit Mobilus Chinatown Emotional Damage — 265 points
  14. CrossFit Gangnam — 250 points
  15. We CrossFit Yangjae — 220 points
  16. CrossFit Doklip Team Welco — 205 points
  17. CrossFit Uninterrupted Team PTCF — 205 points
  18. CrossFit Mobilus Clarke Quay KLMT — 180 points
  19. CrossFit Win Your Body Shield — 85 points
  20. CrossFit Gangnam SS — 80 points

The 2023 CrossFit Games Are Next

With the conclusion of the 2023 Asia and Europe CrossFit Semifinals, most of the roster from the headline divisions at the 2023 CrossFit Games — Individual Women, Individual Men, and Teams — is now set. In addition to Asia and Europe, the 2023 CrossFit Semifinals featured segments that occurred in Africa, North America East, North America West, South America, and Oceania.

At the time of this writing, there are roughly two months before the latest CrossFit Games in the capital of the state of Wisconsin. That is two months for the world’s elite CrossFitters to prepare for what should be a barn-burning display of speed, strength, and endurance.

Featured image: @seherkaya on Instagram

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