Copa Sur sends Kalyan Souza, Anikha Greer, and Hendersonville to Games

Held May 1-3 at Arena Multiuso de São José, Copa Sur offered two men’s spots, two women’s spots and one team ticket, and CrossFit made the event part of its live-watch slate on the app, Games.CrossFit and the Copa Sur YouTube channel. The bigger story was the field itself: 30 men and 30 women lined up, and the usual regional lock was not applied. That opened the door to athletes traveling south from North America and turned the leaderboard into a cross-border pressure test with Games stakes attached.

Greer owned the women’s side by finishing on 580 points, with Miley Wade taking the second qualifying spot at 516. Agustina Haag was third on 472, 44 points behind Wade, which showed how decisive the top two were once the weekend settled into scoring. Greer did not win the event with one runaway performance; she built it by starting with third- and fourth-place finishes, then winning the final four events and never finishing outside the top four. In a field that rewarded steadiness, that late surge proved unbeatable.

The men’s race was even tighter. Kalyan Souza won Copa Sur with 504 points, Benjamin Reyes grabbed the second Games berth with 500, and Joao Pedro Barcelos finished a heartbreaking third on 496, only four points behind Reyes after leading much of the final day. A 13th-place finish in the last event cost Barcelos the trip to the Games, a reminder of how little margin exists when six events decide a season. The top three men were separated by just eight points, and no athlete won more than two events, underscoring that consistency mattered as much as headline wins.