CROSSFIT GAMES 2024
Where is Marine Creek Lake? The place for the 2024 CrossFit Games
An athlete has died at the Games in Texas after Lazar Dukic went missing in the water during the swimming section of a combined event at the Games in Texas.
Tragedy has struck the 2024 CrossFit Games at Marine Creek Lake in Texas on the opening day after it was confirmed an as yet unnamed competitor had died. There were multiple reports of Serbian athlete Lazar Dukic going missing during a combined running and swimming event.
How did Dukic go missing at the 2024 CrossFit Games?
28-year-old Dukic had been among the leaders with only a short distance remaining but failed to cross the finish line. Emergency personnel from Fort Worth Fire Depatment began looking for the Serb, with news later coming that they had pulled a body out of the water.
The CrossFit Games’ organizers didn’t immediately issue a statement but CEO Don Faul later confirmed “CrossFit is deeply saddened by the death of one of our athletes in the swim portion of our event this morning”.
Leah Wagner, a spokesperson for the Fort Worth Police Department, revealed the name of the athlete would not be officially released “until the Tarrant County Medical Examiner has the opportunity to speak with the family and verify the athlete’s name and identity”.
Marine Creek Lake location and profile
The 18th edition of the largest annual CrossFit event is being held at Marine Creek Lake, which is around seven miles north west of Fort Worth in Texas.
With the Games having grown considerably in recent years, the CrossFit organizers chose a sizeable venue of more than 3,000 square meters, which has a capacity for more than 10,000 attendants.
The lake itself is described by Tarrant Regional Water District as “a 250-acre no wake lake which makes it calm, accessible and ideal for swimming, kayaking, kite surfing, triathlon training, rowing, canoeing, sailing and fishing”. It has a maximum depth of 40 feet.