CrossFit Open 19.3 Workout: Lauren Fisher & Alessandra Pichelli Head-to-Head Battle

Lauren Fisher, the 25-year-old American athlete of Team CrossFit Invictus is a veteran of the sport competing in the Games a total of 5 times and placing 9th in 2014 as her highest placing in the individual competition.

She placed 1st at the 2014 Junior National Weightlifting Championships in the 63kg division with 70-kg. snatch and a 102-kg clean and jerk, for a total of 177 kilos and has been competing in CrossFit competition since 2012.

Lauren Fisher benchmark stats:

Back Squat: 290 lbs
Clean and Jerk: 242 lbs
Snatch: 183 lbs
Deadlift: 370 lbs

Fisher will be facing off against Alessandra Pichelli, 32, from Canada who placed 4th at the 2013 CrossFit Games and has been pretty consistent in competition. Pichelli is a member of Diablo CrossFit and was a division 1 rower before participating in CrossFit in 2010.

Alessandra Pichelli benchmark stats:

Back Squat: 320 lbs
Clean and Jerk: 245 lbs
Snatch: 210 lbs
Deadlift: 400 lbs

There’s about a 20-pound weight difference between the two athletes with Fisher weighing around 135lbs and Pichelli weighing about 155lbs.

If you put the two together you can imagine that’d make for an electrifying event!

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SO excited and a little nervous for this. 😅 Your girl is going live for @crossfitgames 19.3. 🙋🏼‍♀️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Tune in Thursday at 5pm PT at games.crossfit.com to watch @alessandrapichelli and I go head to head at Diablo CrossFit. 🙌 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What do you all think it’s going to be this week?!
A post shared by Lauren Fisher (@laurenfisher) on Mar 5, 2019 at 12:40pm PST

Both Lauren Fisher and Alessandra Pichelli will have something big to prove in 2019!

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Rope climbs in the Open… Yes🙋🏽‍♀️ or no🙅🏻‍♂️?
A post shared by Lauren Fisher (@laurenfisher) on Mar 6, 2019 at 2:35pm PST

Here’s a video where Pichelli showed here 19.2 workouts where she posted… “ 19.2: Slow progress is still progress – happy to be fitter than in 2016!”

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19.2 : Slow progress is still progress – happy to be fitter than in 2016! ______________________________________________________ @crossfitgames @diablocrossfit @incrediwear @trifectasystem @reebok
A post shared by Alessandra Pichelli (@alessandrapichelli) on Mar 5, 2019 at 7:49am PST

The announcement will be live from Diablo CrossFit!

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Ready for 19.3? We are! Watch the announcement LIVE from Diablo CrossFit with @crossfitgames athletes @alessandrapichelli and @laurenfisher! Then watch the @butterybros @marzmedia and @hebercannon throwdown with Diablo Masters & Millennial members, @deanquimbaio and @hayhowiee ! And, the guys from @morningchalkup will be on hand for a 1 hour PRE-show – @tommymarquez and @jaylowone # @assaultfitness @sugarwod @fullyampd @prsallday. 📹 @stephenmstover
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