Garard, Sturt win tight Torian Pro battles as Oceania drama peaks

Ricky Garard and Madeline Sturt left Pat Rafter Arena as Torian Pro winners, but neither title came with much daylight. In Brisbane, Queensland, the 2026 TYR Torian Pro ran May 22-24 as an official CrossFit Games Semifinal, and the margins told the story of Oceania’s depth: Garard won the men’s field by 655 points to Jay Crouch’s 643, while Sturt beat Ellie Turner 607 to 601. With 40-athlete pro fields on each side and only three Games tickets available for men and women, every stumble carried real consequences.

Garard’s win was built on relentless consistency rather than one dominant score. He was top five in all seven events, the kind of profile that has become almost mandatory at a semifinal where one bad finish can erase a weekend’s work. Crouch kept the pressure on by winning Heavy Hann and King Arthur II, but his 11th-place finish in event two ultimately cost him the title. Bayley Martin made the other statement on the men’s side by finishing third through steady, workmanlike results: he won One for the Money, took second in Regional Redux and added a third in King Arthur II. He also claimed the final qualifying spot by finishing ahead of Justin Medeiros, which made the podium race matter far beyond the trophy itself.

The women’s race tightened even further. Sturt and Turner were separated by just six points at the finish, and the battle came down to the last event. Kyra Milligan was the only woman to win more than one test, taking Heavy Hann and King Arthur II, but even that burst of event-winning power was not enough to shake Sturt’s overall control of the leaderboard. The result underscored the same lesson the men delivered: in Oceania, winning a couple of events is not enough if the rest of the weekend turns uneven.

That is what made Torian so revealing for the 2026 CrossFit season. CrossFit has placed the event in the final qualifying stage for the Games, and its semifinals calendar had Torian in a crowded late-May stretch alongside Rebel Renegade Games before later in-person events in North America and Europe. The live broadcast began at 12:00 pm AEST on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with an 8 am Sunday slot also listed, giving the weekend the feel of a marquee qualifier rather than just another regional stop. In the end, Torian again proved that Oceania does not simply produce event winners. It produces survivors, and that is the edge that tends to travel best to the Games.