Mat Fraser is stepping away from competing in the sport he has long dominated.
“I look forward to remaining a part of the CrossFit community, I just won’t be doing it from the competition floor any longer,” the decorated athlete announced to his 2.3 million followers on Instagram today.
Fraser, who is a Nike athlete, is a five-time CrossFit Games champion, earning the “Fittest Man on Earth” title each year since 2016.
“Like so many others that wandered into a CrossFit gym, I wasn’t expecting to find my best friends, business partners, wife, countless life lessons and five gold medals,” Fraser said on Instagram. “Today, I leave the sport older, wiser, fitter and grateful.”
Throughout his career, Nike has delivered several iterations of its shoe built for CrossFit, the Metcon, dedicated to the decorated athlete.
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In 2018, Nike revealed his signature colorway of the Metcon 4 in May, and after his third-straight CrossFit Games win, the brand gifted Fraser a special, not for retail version of the shoe in black and gold in August.
For the Metcon 5 release in 2019, Nike revealed a PE for Fraser in July, and offered a customizable version of the shoe in August via Nike By You to celebrate his fourth straight win.
And in July 2020, Nike once again released a “Mat Fraser” version of the latest look in the franchise, the Nike Metcon 6.
