One of the last legs of this year’s CrossFit Semifinals saw Asian athletes take center stage.
Written by Robert Zeglinski
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
- Seher Kaya — 664 points
- Shahad Budebs — 535 points
- Anastasya Dodonova — 525 points
- Dawon Jung — 525 points
- Or Cohen — 498 points
- Kamila Takeyeva — 490 points
- Dema Zebdieh — 460 points
- Alina Aleksandrova — 442 points
- Anastasia Smirnova — 425 points
- Gaeun Kim — 412 points
- Milana Yakovleva — 402 points
- Minjeong Kim — 399 points
- Hedieh Veisi — 393 points
- Anna Ivanova — 376 points
- Florence Wong — 375 points
- Raisa Blinova — 366 points
- Merve Gokcil — 349 points
- Omer Reshef — 328 points
- Narges Basiryazdi — 226 points
- Heidi Choi — 220 points
Individual Men
- Arthur Semenov — 612 points
- Morteza Sedaghat — 573 points
- Ant Haynes — 560 points
- Ilyas Kuliev — 543 points
- Andrei Fedotov — 540 points
- Anatolii Borisenko — 524 points
- Seungjong Kim — 479 points
- Kang Kyungsun — 472 points
- Ruslan Miftakhov — 439 points
- Eren Kim — 402 points
- Anton Yakovlev — 384 points
- Danny Voronov — 368 points
- Jeongheon Yeo — 341 points
- Ram Dover — 327 points
- Meysam Rohani — 323 points
- Changrim An — 306 points
- Hyunsu Kim — 301 points
- Chen Sheng — 296 points
- Mevlüt Agir — 283 points
- Yu-sen Zhu — 262 points
Teams
- CrossFit Fly High Kolesnikov Team — 590 points
- CrossFit Marvel Black — 525 points
- Stud CrossFit Team Stud — 485 points
- Red Tower CrossFit — 455 points
- CrossFit Erada 1 — 455 points
- CrossFit We Can Do It TeamBusan — 400 points
- CrossFit Pangyo Avenue Swaggers — 390 points
- CrossFit Mobilus Chinatown Sour Patch Kids — 370 points
- CrossFit Club 49 — 340 points
- Yangsan CrossFit Team Thor — 315 points
- Innerfight CrossFit DXB — 295 points
- N Camp CrossFit Team Kima — 275 points
- CrossFit Mobilus Chinatown Emotional Damage — 265 points
- CrossFit Gangnam — 250 points
- We CrossFit Yangjae — 220 points
- CrossFit Doklip Team Welco — 205 points
- CrossFit Uninterrupted Team PTCF — 205 points
- CrossFit Mobilus Clarke Quay KLMT — 180 points
- CrossFit Win Your Body Shield — 85 points
- 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
About Robert Zeglinski
Robert is a seasoned and adept editor and writer with a keen, passionate penchant for the writing craft. He’s been a leader in newsrooms such as SB Nation, USA TODAY, and WBBM Newsradio, with various other content and art production teams, and first made a name for himself in his hometown of Chicago. When not knee-deep in research or lost in a stream of consciousness for a thorough piece, you can find Robert inhaling yet another novel, journaling his heart out, or playing with his Shiba Inu, Maximus (Max, for short).