Women’s Health Magazine is celebrating women in sport, featuring the fittest woman on earth, Tia-Clair Toomey, on the November cover.
The new cover will coincide with the Women’s Health Women in Sport Awards on October 16.
Toomey has won the last six consecutive CrossFit Games and is the most dominant CrossFit athlete of all time. In the Women’s Health Magazine feature, Toomey reveals how two weeks before the games in August, she had injured her back but cast out any excuses and focused on the task at hand. She focused on getting her body well enough to compete in the five-day 2022 CrossFit Games, over 13 events, and she won.
Women’s Health Magazine cover
Growing up, Toomey played many different sports, and she believes her early years of being the best-all-round athlete set her up for success. She played everything from tennis and netball to running and swimming.
Toomey discovered CrossFit when she moved to Gladstone in QLD in 2014, and the decision to go all in was not something that happened overnight. While having a secure paying job, it took Toomey eight months to decide to go all in.
Tia-Clair Toomey
Mediaweek recently spoke to Women’s Health editor-in-chief Lizza Gebilagin about the October partnership with the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup and the importance of women’s sports representation.
“After interviewing so many athletes over the years for our Women’s Health Women In Sport initiative, I’ve heard of the same roadblocks come up again and again of women being scrutinized in a different light to their male counterparts. It’s been changing over time, but there’s still so much that can be done. And I think our partnership with FIBA, showcasing 12 very different stories from the world’s best basketball players, gives all these women the coverage they deserve and the chance to feel “superstar-worthy”, as Jones puts it, purely based on their incredible talents and without feeling like they have to fulfil any other criteria,” she said.
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