She was crowned 'Ireland's Fittest Woman' for the sixth time last weekend, and now Emma McQuaid is preparing to take on the world's best at the CrossFit Games.
Emma - who hails from Newry but lives in Lisburn - will head to Madison in Wisconsin this August to compete at a competition which is known as the Olympics of the sport.
The 33-year-old cemented her status as Fittest Woman in Ireland after another stellar performance in Germany.
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Emma went up against a tough field of athletes at the European semi-finals of the competition in Berlin.
The event saw 60 of the fittest women in Europe going head-to-head over three days of workouts to earn one of 11 spots at the Games.
Ending the weekend in 10th place, Emma saw her best result in workout three with a fifth place finish. Event four also saw Emma lift an 84kg Snatch, beating her Olympic Weightlifting Irish National Record for the Snatch and Clean & Jerk in the sub 71kg weight category when she competed at The Ulster Open Championships last year.
Emma is one of the world’s leading female CrossFit athletes and a previous winner of CrossFit’s off-season competition, Wodapalooza.
Reflecting on her recent CrossFit Games qualification, she said: “This was definitely one of the toughest semi-finals I’ve competed in to date. That meant it was all the more rewarding to hear my name being called out as one of the European women to secure a ticket to the Games.
"Now for two months of hard work dialling everything in to bring the fittest version of myself to Madison."
With the result, Emma also earned the title of ‘Fittest Woman in Ireland’* for an impressive sixth year in a row and will be going to Madison as one of the most experienced Games athletes in the field.
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