Spencer Panchik and Sara Sigmundsdóttir Accept Special Invites to WFP London
Sara Sigmundsdóttir is the lone woman among four CrossFit athletes to accept a WFP London wildcard invite; Noah Ohlsen publicly confirmed he received one but appears to have passed.
Noah Ohlsen shared publicly that he received a special invite to the World Fitness Project's London Tour Stop and then apparently passed on it. He is absent from the 30-athlete non-Pro roster for the May event, while Spencer Panchik, Sara Sigmundsdóttir, Roldan Goldbaum, and Fran Hurtado all accepted their wildcard berths.
Sigmundsdóttir was the lone female athlete to both receive and accept a special invite for the stop. On the men's side, Panchik, Goldbaum, and Hurtado rounded out the quartet of accepts, leaving the invite picture at three men and one woman confirmed for the London field.
WFP introduced the wildcard system as part of changes to its 2026 season structure, allowing for up to five special invites per Tour Stop in the circuit's second year. Roster movement was confirmed through the leaderboard on Competition Corner. Of what WFP has described as 10 available special-invite spots, only four were filled through the process; the organization has since populated the remaining open positions from its online-qualifier pool.
WFP operates as a non-CrossFit, tour-style circuit, and accepting an invite comes with a real scheduling calculus: the spring and summer stop dates sit inside the same competitive window as CrossFit's Open-to-Games path. For athletes who have built their names inside the CrossFit ecosystem, a golden ticket here means weighing visibility and prize opportunity against the traditional season calendar.
The decision to court Panchik and Sigmundsdóttir specifically reflects the tour's appetite for marquee names that bring recognition beyond what a qualifier leaderboard alone can deliver. Sigmundsdóttir is a former CrossFit Games podium contender; Panchik is a well-known figure in Games competition circles. Their presence in the London field gives WFP Tour Stop 1 a recognizable headline that a fully qualifier-built roster would not.
Ohlsen's apparent pass is the open question heading into London. He made clear he was in the conversation; it just ended differently than WFP presumably hoped.
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