About the event

The Norwegian Throwdown is a three-day fitness competition in the Norwegian mountains. The athletes will be tested in strength, endurance, and gymnastics, all while enjoying some the most beautiful nature Norway has to offer.

Our venue is a total of 3000 square meters of competition floor, warm-up area and athlete area indoors, and of course the surrounding mountains.

Classes:

• Elite men
• Elite women
• Elite team (2 male + 2 female)
• Masters men 35+
• Masters women 35+
• Team beginner male + male
• Team beginner female + female

Class information

Elite men and women

Online Qualification with 3 workouts
8 workouts at final
Prize Pool: 7.000€ in Cash + Non-Cash

To participate in this class you need to be ready for everything including muscle-ups, handstand-walk, rope-climbs, heavy weights and the unknown

Elite teams

Online Qualification with 3 workouts
7 workouts at final
Prize Pool: 2.000€ in Cash + Non-Cash

Substituting injured team mates is allowed.

To participate in this class you need to be ready for everything including muscle-ups, handstand-walk, rope-climbs, heavy weights and the unknown

Master men and women 35+:

Online Qualification with 3 workouts
8 workouts at final
Prize Pool: 1.000€ in Cash + Non-Cash

To participate in this class you need to be ready for everything including muscle-ups, handstand-walk, rope-climbs, heavy weights and the unkonwn

Team beginner male + male, and female + female

No online qualification
4 workouts at final on Friday and Saturday, with afterparty Saturday evening
Prize Pool: Non-Cash items

Substituting injured team mates is allowed

To participate in this class you need to master the basics gymnastics like a kipping pull-up, toe to bar and push-ups, and also movements with a bar, kettlebells or dumbbells. You will not be tested in movements like double-unders, handstand walk, handstand push-ups, chest to bar pull-ups, muscle-ups or rope-climbs. Weights will be light/moderate.

Registration

Registration for the online qualifiers will close at May 12th at 24:00 CET-time.

Registration for the final event will close at August 25th at 24:00 CET-time.

Online qualifiers

Qualifier 1 will be released 6th May at 12:00 and deadline for posting a score and uploading video will be 12th May 23:59

Qualifier 2 will be released 13th May at 12:00 and deadline for posting a score and uploading video will be 19th May 23:59

Qualifier 3 will be released 20th May at 12:00 and deadline for posting a score and uploading video will be 26th May 23:59

All times are CET-time

Results submitted after the deadlift will not be accepted. Only valid and correctly submitted scores will be accepted.

Roger Nilsson

Any information about you, who are you?

Roger Nilsson age 38.

Born in Sweden but lives in Norway for 7 years now.

And im getting married this year to Julia Gillros.

How and when did you get interested in crossfit?

I started with CrossFit 2016.

I was in a accident 2008 were I crushed my leg and shoulder and I was really far down!

And I had to start training for my own survival. 193cm and 58kg.

I always loved competitions and i was looking for a new sport were I could compete again. I got a challenge on instagram to compete on Fitnessfestivalen Throwdown team of 2.

I had 2veek to learn “CrossFit”. After that I have been doing CrossFit and been competing on 12 different comps. And I will nerver stop!

What is your sporting path?

Jujitsu, Boxing, Thai boxing, fotball and now CrossFit.

What does the community mean to you?

The community of CrossFit is my safe place in live! I have traveled all over the world and were ever I go I can always go in to a box and feel like home!

Would you tell us about the idea, the format and the reasons that led you to create it?

I love competitions and I have always worked with events so I hade to try to make a CF competition.

And I did a Box competition with 80 athletes.

Next year 180 athletes and now it’s time to step up the game. And make a unique competition in the Norwegian mountains on a Ski Resort! And I think CF needs more competitions outside the Box in a Arena.

If we want to make our sport to grow we need to make bigger and better completions. And when I visit the Hotell on a Strong Man event 2016 I sad I want to make a competition here some day.

It’s a amazing place! The nature and the main arena is amazing.

Organizing an event is not a simple thing, how do you manage to put together all the pieces of the puzzle?

I’m an event person. I love the road from an idé on a napkin to the day after! The puzzle is my passion.

Finding the right partners and personas to make it happen is so important. I have now found my partners and crew to make anything in all sizes. And to give Scandinavia an unique competition like Norwegian Throwdown is a dream come true.

What was the thing you liked best, and the least, the previous edition?

Like every competition there are same moments you never forget. 2018 there was a guy in Team Beginner that never done a pull up because of overweight. And together with the athletes and crowd he did 8!!! The best 3min of my life! To se the community love to this guy!

The wors was that we ended up almost 3h late on the final day. And I have worked many many hours to make sure it never happens again.

Can you anticipate any news about this edition?

The new location is the big news! To bring the community up to the amazing Norwegian Mountains going to be something I look forward to.

Your favorites for the final victory

We will see.

What are your plans for the future?

We have big plans and you will soon now.