Fran Workout 2023 Open Recap

The Fran Workout 2023 Open, a new workout for the Donor Games that took place March 15-21, delivered another exciting event, with fierce competition in both donor categories and a new name appearing at the top of the Donor Men’s leaderboard.

In the men’s donor category, Justin King was comfortably in first place with his second attempt of 6:32 after an initial DQ. Jason Elmore had three straight DQs before his fourth attempt of 6:20 bested Justin’s time and catapulted him to the top of the leaderboard. On the last day of the competition, Justin submitted a third attempt of 6:03 but it was DQ’d. Because Justin was DQ’d on the last day, according to the rules he had 24 hours to submit another attempt, and he did so, winning the category with a final time of 6:09. Cornelius Bornman, in only his second Donor Games appearance, took third place with a time of 7:16.

In the women’s donor category, it was another battle between Mimi Mahon and Roni Hays. Mimi submitted a 5:48 first effort, putting her in first place. On the last day of the competition, Roni beat Mimi’s time with a 5:28 effort, but just minutes later Mimi submitted a second effort of 5:14 putting her back on top. Darlene Magsino took the third-place spot with a time of 7:50.

Donor Games veteran Scott Claybrook took first place in the transplant recipient men’s division with a time of 9:18.

We had six world-class times in the general categories—these times were less than a minute off of the world record set by CrossFit Games veteran Noah Ohlsen (2nd Fittest in the World in 2019). Shelby Donahue (women’s division) crushed her first workout, beating all of the men in the general category, but was DQ’d due to a sub-optimal camera angle that did not capture her chin going over the pull-up bar. In her second attempt, to ensure her chin was over the bar, she converted to chest-to-bar pullups (much harder) and still completed the workout in a blazing time of 2:36, beating all but three men in the general category.

Final Leaderboard

Living Donor: Men
Rank	Participant	Age	State	Time	Video
1	Justin King	44	AL	6:09
2	Jason Elmore	42	TX	6:20
3	Cornelius Bornman	46	MI	7:16
4	Anonymous Donor	43	ME	8:34
5	Chris Sullivan	54	CO	9:10
6	Jay Irwin	56	CO	15:27
7	Jon Sullenberger+	60	WA	14:33
	David Ashley	48	VA
	Cody Maynard	27	TN
	Jody Wilkins	51	WA

Living Donor: Women
Rank	Participant	Age	State	Time	Video
1	Mimi Mahon	35	OH	5:14
2	Roni Hays	26	MS	5:28
3	Darlene Magsino	42	MD	7:50
4	Molly Cropp+	42	CO	9:50
5	Janet Walker +	39	NY	12:20
6	Emily Polet-Monterosso++	35	MI	6:45
7	Anna Cannington++	55	MS	9:37
	Andrea Alejandro	43	TX	DNF
	Jodi Harskamp++	47	AK	DNF
	Amy Plourde	47	PA

Transplant Recipient: Men
Rank	Participant	Age	State	Time	Video
1	Scott Claybrook	41	AL	9:18
2	Wilson Du+	41	CA	18:40

Transplant Recipient: Women
Rank	Participant	Age	State	Time	Video
	Merrill Walker	66	TX

General: Men
Rank	Participant	Age	State	Time	Video
T1	Henry Morales	32	MA	2:27
T1	Jeremy Johnson	44	IN	2:27
2	Zach Glaser	32	TN	2:31
3	Greg Holt	37	CT	2:40
4	Jedidiah Yousefi	30	MD	2:47
5	Mike Harden	33	MD	3:04
6	Mark Zimmer	42	CT	20:57
	Edson DaCosta	44	NY
	Sebastian Harris	32	CT
	Nikolaos Kostakis	45	MD
	Casey Schmitz	38	CT

General: Women
Rank	Participant	Age	State	Time	Video
1	Shelby Donahue	33	CT	2:36
2	Francheska Delgado Peraza	34	MD	3:57
3	Chadae McDonald	36	MD	4:37
4	Laura Anderson	38	OH	4:50
5	Michelle Danoff	45	MA	5:47
6	Kiana Sullenberger	29	WA	9:15
7	Shanell Sullenberger	29	WA	10:00
	Elida Loci	27	CT

+ Modified workout completed for one workout element.
++ Modified workout completed for both workout elements.
DNF: Athlete did not finish the workout.