Alex Gazan

Alex Gazan is a CrossFit athlete who gained fame at the Granite Games 2022 by earning her first pass to the Games.

Since then, she has continued to excel and has established herself as one of the best athletes in the world.

2025

Accident after winning Norcal Classic

What started out as a fun return trip turned into one of the scariest moments he has ever experienced.

🙏 Thank God, both she and Jake are doing well and are out of the hospital.

Alex has a small fracture in his fibula, a lot of swelling in his leg... and crystals in places they shouldn't be! 🤕

Despite the scare, she is upbeat and looking forward to recovering soon to get back to doing what she loves ❤️‍🩹.

He will most likely miss the remainder of the season.

Northern California Classic

Gazan dominated, with two event wins and seven top ten finishes.

In an interview he said, "I've put all my eggs in this basket to qualify, so to achieve that feels good."

WFP Tour 1

She won the first edition of the World Fitness Project Tour 1 obtaining 500 points and $30k.

2024

CrossFit Games 2024

Improves on his previous result and finishes 10th. He started badly with a 38th place in the first event. His best results were two third places, in the Firestorm and the Clean Ladder.

Games prep

We have seen her preparing the Games with her programming partner, Ricky Garard. They have also been joined by Aniol Ekai, the Spaniard shares a representation agency with the Australian.

North America West Semifinal

Finished second in the Carson semifinal. Set the world's best time in event 3. Admits she doesn't like coming in second.

His worst result was in the snatch event making it clear that it is still one of his weaknesses.

Event 1: 11ª
Event 2: 3ª
Event 3: 1ª
Event 4: 6ª
Event 5: 23ª
Event 6: 1ª

Announcement of open 24.1

Along with Alexis Raptis, Jeffrey Adler and Brent Fikowski, she is one of the athletes selected to present the first Open of 2024. Raptis was faster than Gazan.

He began working with Chris Hinshaw, an endurance coach with a great reputation in the CrossFit world.

2023

Rogue invitational 

He participated in the Rogue Invitational with an injury he had been carrying since the Games. A wrist contusion that did not prevent him from winning 2 events including a spectacular deadlift with a weight of 425 lbs / 193 kg, 5 lbs more than Dani Speegle.

Finishes in 5th position.

CrossFit Games 2023

5th fittest woman in the world. She is also a recipient of the "Most Improved" award.

North America West Semifinal

Wins the North America West semifinal despite a 43rd place finish in the snatch ladder event. This is an exercise that demands a lot of technique and still needs to be perfected.

Quarterfinals

2nd in western North America

Open

6th in Western North America

2022

CrossFit Games 2022

She participates for the first time in the CrossFit Games 2022 and finishes 22nd.

Shortly before the Gamess, her programming partner Danielle Brandon is kicked off Underdogs, Bethany's departure to California and Kari Pearce's retirement make her the programming's anchor athlete.

Granite Games 2022

For many it was the moment we first met Alex Gazan.

At the age of 20, he achieved his first qualification to the CrossFit Games. He came first in event 6, the last event of the competition, in which he moved from 6th to 4th place, thus earning his invitation to Games.

From the moment the horn sounded, Alex knew this was his workout. Just one position away from qualifying, Alex set a frenetic pace from the start and never let up. The difference was his confidence on the legless rope climbs.

2021

the West Coast Classic

It was his most important competition so far and he finished in sixteenth position.

Marries

At 18 she married Jake, whom she met at the Box. At that point her life did a 180 degree turnaround. Jake was working with his father in fire prevention and had to move to Las Vegas. After some long distance dating, they decided to get married and Alex moved to Las Vegas as well.

With the change of location he trained in his garage, but got bored.

Looking for a job she ended up at CrossFit Camp Rhino where she was a coach. That's when she started following a Forged by Zeus schedule, but one of the guys told Alex she was too good to train with them and encouraged her to train with Kary Pearce who had just moved to town.

Alex showed up at CrossFit Culmination to talk to Pearce. Once they started training together, Pearce invited her to train with her whenever she wanted. That's when she started working with Underdogs athletics alongside Kary Pearce, Bethany Flores and Danielle Brandon.

2017 Meet CrossFit

At the age of 16-17, he had his first encounter with CrossFit in a Hood River box, where Regan Huckaby, a well-known veteran CrossFit athlete, was training.

Attempted to qualify as Teen, but did not succeed

She always excelled in heavy lifting and it was the gymnastic movements that were the most difficult for her.

He considers himself a very optimistic person to the point of being innocent.

When she was a little girl she went to a bilingual school where she learned Spanish. The program was called dos mundos and consisted of doing one day all in English and the next day all in Spanish.

Although he acknowledges that he has lost his level of Spanish due to lack of practice, he can still have basic conversations.

Her first job was washing dishes in a hamburger restaurant at the early age of 14. She also worked as a nanny.

Before CrossFit

In high school he participated in lifting classes that were taught by the football coach. These classes included bench press, power clean, back squat and helped her improve her Lacrosse performance. This introduced her to weightlifting and it was this same coach who recommended she try CrossFit.

As a curious fact, Alex lifted 225lb / 102 kg bench press in high school.. That figure has increased to 248 lb / 113 kg.

He explains that this bench press ability hurt him in movements such as the overhead squat.

Her father was into bodybuilding, she went with him, but she only wanted to train her legs because she didn't want to have big arms. She combined leg workouts with long cardio sessions.

He played many sports, but during high school he focused on Lacrosse, a sport that originated with the indigenous tribes of the northern United States and southern Canada.

Childhood with alcohol-addicted parents

She had a difficult childhood, as her parents divorced when she was 5 years old. His relationship until then with his father was very good and in fact he shared more time with him than with his mother. She accompanied him in the truck from work, they went out on motorcycles, hunting... They were best friends.

However, after the separation, her father took up with another woman. He started drinking a lot of beer and spent his time watching TV, neglecting his daughter.

Alex took refuge in sports, a story reminiscent of that of Danielle Brandon.

He recounted how on one occasion, his father was stopped by the police when the two were returning from spending a few days together. The policeman asked the father to get out of the car and Alex could see how the policeman reduced his father and threw him to the ground. Alex was 11 years old and started crying and screaming, a second police officer approached and asked the father to tell Alex to stop crying, or he would be forced to call a child protection team. Eventually, his father was taken away under arrest and his father's partner came to pick Alex up.

He has a brother on his mother's side from a subsequent relationship.

His mother also had a drinking problem. On one occasion, Alex received a call from the hospital to come and pick up his mother because she was drunk and he explains that he was very embarrassed.