28/08/2021
Patrick Vellner 🇨🇦 started the 2021 NOBULL CrossFit Games with a 35th-place finish in Event 1, but after shaking off the live-competition cobwebs, he made his comeback.
The new dad posted the fastest time in Event 2, winning his first event of the weekend with the only sub-8-minute time: 7:42.42.
Vellner went on to win two more events during the competition. In Event 5, he was the only athlete to come in under 12 minutes, and in Event 14, he was one of two athletes to finish within the time cap, edging out Justin Medeiros by 10 seconds.
At his sixth individual Games appearance, Vellner finished within the top five in eight events — and for the second time in his CrossFit career, he is the second-fittest man on Earth.