James Sprague

Dating all the way back to the original competitive fitness competition, the 2007 CrossFit Games, the first men’s champion, James Fitzgerald, won the first ever title of “Fittest Man on Earth” despite not winning any one individual workout. 

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Sprague is in a position to potentially become the first ever World Fitness Project Champion despite not winning either Tour Stop…and he does not need to win the Finals to do it. 

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With a 50-point buffer over second place Roman Khrennikov, taking second in both Indianapolis and Mesa, if he were to finish second again at the Finals, even a win for Khrennikov would not be enough for him to pass Sprague. 

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Unlike Mr. Fitzgerald, Sprague has been racking up workout wins, four to be exact (taking Pro 4B and Pro 5 at both tour stops). He’s also got five additional top-5 finishes, meaning he’s in the top-5 on half of the workouts so far. 

His three low finishes have come on the two one-rep max tests (20th on the one-rep max shoulder-to-overhead, 18th on the one-rep max clean), and also on Mesa Pro 2 with 100 handstand pushups and 100 double kettlebell squats where he took 24th. 

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The difference between Sprague and most of his other closest competitors, is that the ability to win workouts outright multiple times in competitions goes a long way towards accounting for an occasional low blip. 

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He’s yet to win any WFP competitions, but in the nature of the season, he’s been the best most often, and has earned the lead he has going into the Finals.