Smith made the podium for the first time at the 2011 Games by finishing third behind Rich Froning and Josh Bridges. Smith went on to qualify for the Games in 10 subsequent years. He earned a spot in the 2009 CrossFit Games where he finished in 64th place out of 74 competitors. In 2009, Smith entered his first CrossFit Games Regionals event at age 18, finishing in first place at the Mid Atlantic Qualifier held at Virginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 2012. However, he was unable to try out for the baseball team at Old Dominion after his transfer, and so decided to take part in the Regional, a qualification event for the CrossFit Games, which was held near his home in 2009, and managed to qualify for the Games that year. He played collegiate level baseball at Lafayette College, but transferred after a semester to Old Dominion University to be closer to home. When he was sixteen, his father introduced him to CrossFit, an exercise program popular in the military and law enforcement communities, to help improve his performance in baseball.
He had intended to pursue a career in baseball, and was a baseball player for the Great Bridge High School Wildcats from 2004 to 2008. Smith learned gymnastics when he was three, lifted weights in his early teens, and played American football and baseball throughout his childhood. His father was in the navy and the family moved around frequently when he was younger, but they eventually settled in Chesapeake where he started his 9th grade in high school. He has two younger brothers, Alec and Dane. īen Smith was born to Chuck and Kim Smith on May 16, 1990. He is the founder of his own gym, CrossFit Krypton, in Chesapeake, Virginia. He has placed first in CrossFit Games regional qualifying events six times (five times in the Mid Atlantic region and once in the Atlantic "super-region"). Smith was a baseball player throughout childhood and was introduced to CrossFit during his senior year of high school in 2008 and qualified for the CrossFit Games the next year. He was able to extend the streak to 11 years following the adjusted qualification rules for the 2019 CrossFit Games that gave him wildcard invitation. He is the first competitor to make ten consecutive appearances in the Individual Division at the CrossFit Games. He has competed at the CrossFit Games every year from 2009 to 2019, finishing on the podium four times: first place in 2015, second in 2016, and third in 20.
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Ben Smith (born May 16, 1990) is a professional CrossFit athlete from Virginia, United States.
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