Our Athletes
Harry Lightfoot
Harry’s athletic career has lasted a lifetime, starting on his father’s farm in Cornwall, always lending a helping hand from a young age.
In his teen years, he trained to become a more dominant athlete during his brief reign in Rugby, which helped him and his team win noticeably more games.
With their final Rugby season ending, he and his friends began looking for ways to keep pushing their fitness up, when they found CrossFit.
And it was here his sheer athleticism truly shined.
Pushed by his friends’ faith in his abilities and reassured by his abnormal results, he gained the confidence to commit fully to the sport.
Today, he sits comfortably as the #1 Fittest Man in the UK with no contenders in sight.
Vicky Fleetwood
For those in the know, Vicky Fleetwood needs no introduction.
Esteemed and cherished member of the Red Roses Rugby Team, joining in 2011 and quickly earning her stripes, her successes are the club’s own, helping her team win the World Cup in 2014, a title the club can hold with immense pride, forever.
Alongside this monumental achievement, she’s credited with the win of the Commonwealth Games, 5 Six Nations wins in her 12-year career, 82 international caps and 2 Premier 15s wins.
A titan of the sport, she retired in 2023 and was sorely missed by her club and by her fans, all over the world.
All this time, she was also pouring her heart into coaching and later into personal training, which she is still doing, to this day, after her long and distinguished career.
In 2024, after retirement, she shifted focus to her personal training, coaching and CrossFit, pushing those willing to learn and try their best to the physical and mental heights worthy of a true champion.
Helen Nutter
Described as “fierce”, an animal lover and self-proclaimed lover of barbells, Helen is truly a force to be reckoned with in UK CrossFit.
Competing in swimming for 10 years before switching, and working as a full-time P.E. teacher and CrossFit Gym coach, she also found the time to top the CrossFit leaderboards, becoming the 2nd Fittest Woman in Europe in 2019 and currently sitting at the 9th spot for Fittest Woman in the UK in 2024.
Revered and loved in her community, and known just as much for her friendly, magnetic and strong, demeanour, she pushes her students just as she pushes herself towards greatness.
She is now training for the 2024 European Semi-Finals in Lyons, France, where she plans to continue her chart-topping career.
Tris Dixon
Tris Dixon is a legend in the world of boxing, with a seemingly endless list of achievements and works his name is attributed to.
Always an athlete, he transitioned from Rugby to Boxing in 1996, at the time studying journalism at university, hoping to do war stories and interview world leaders and any manner of big-time personalities.
After combining his skills in journalism with his love of boxing, his career flourished.
He became the editor for Boxing News, has ghostwritten books and autobiographies for numerous famous individuals in the boxing world, authored books shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Books Awards in 2023 and is a regular expert commentator on various sports channels such as Sky News and CNN.
Today he is held in high esteem in boxing, being an elector for the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Still an athlete, enjoying boxing and working out regularly to this day, he’s crushing PRs at age 46 and doesn’t seem to show any sign of slowing down, whether being an athlete or being an author.
Helena Collins
Helena, a devoted mother, wife and athlete, fell in love with CrossFit after the birth of her first child.
First a football player, she made the switch to CrossFit and instantly found great success, finishing Top 5 in three separate events in 2017, including the Warrior League where she finished 1st overall.
Her extreme athleticism and strong spirit got noticed, and she was picked to represent Great Britain at the 2018 FRF World Championships in London.
Today, despite being in the (35-39) age bracket, she still dominates the sport, finishing as the 5th Fittest Woman in the UK, the Champion of her age bracket, and 3rd best in Europe and the World for Women 35-39.
This year, she competes again and will be seen alongside other world-level athletes at the Semi-Finals in Lyon, France.
Charlotte Spence
A fitness instructor inside the Military, and former CrossFit champion, Charlotte admits she wasn’t always into fitness.
But with an inherent, undeniable talent and raw athletic ability, once her fitness journey had started, it seemed there wasn’t a thing that could stop her.
She started training in CrossFit after running a marathon and began competing.
From 2017 she secured her place amongst the Top 5 Fittest Women in the UK for 5 years running.
Then after entering the (35-39) bracket, she topped the boards as Champion for two years in a row, all whilst being an active member of the military, known as ‘The Fittest Woman in the Military’ by 2021.
In 2024, she still stands amongst the Top 50 Fittest Women globally and is the 6th fittest Woman (35-39) in the UK, and still competes in CrossFit competitions.
Jordan Hogg
Former Royal Marine for 10 years and current Maritime Security Operator, Jordan Hogg is still putting his never-ending discipline and dedication to good use today to protect our waters across the globe, helping to save people’s lives.
This dedication to bettering the world doesn’t end there.
Owner of StrongFit personal training Exeter, Jordan uses his time away from Maritime Security to better himself and others through relentless training and pursuit of health & fitness goals, using his wide array of skills and life experience to assist people who want to reach their absolute peak level of physical and mental performance in life.
Today, in 2024, he is still a League 1, competitive CrossFit athlete, topping comp leaderboards and taking his place on podiums.
Maddy Harris
Maddy Harris is Co-owner at CrossFit Aylesbury and Coach at BLK DOG Fitness.
She made the World Championships for the CrossFit games with her team, becoming the first UK team ever to accomplish this, and they did it 2 years in a row.
Maddy was the 8th Fittest Woman in the UK in 2022 and was the 17th Fittest Woman in the UK, in 2024.
Kiera Blunden
Kiera Blunden is an athlete showing up at multiple Youth Championships.
In 2019, she reached the Summer Swimming Championships and in 2022 she earned her place in the CrossFit Teen Championships.
She is currently an undergraduate studying Physiotherapy, planning to start her own practice down the line.
Lauren Hunter
Lauren’s interest in sport performance led her to study Sport and Exercise Science at university and it was during this time that she discovered CrossFit. Loving the idea of developing the ‘well-rounded athlete’, she immediately threw herself into training with the aim of competing.
Lauren initially started with smaller, local competitions before starting to qualify for international ones. In 2023 she took third place in French Throwdown (Rx) and then turned her focus towards Elite level competition.
In 2024 she finished in the top 1% of the Open and plans to gain more experience competing internationally as an Elite athlete.
As a CF-L2 Coach, Lauren coaches classes at her gym alongside online programming for clients, and spends the rest of her time training and focusing on her recovery.
Paul Gillingham
Having played football for the best part of 20 years Paul qualified as a fitness professional back in 2005.
He has worked with and coached both professional and semi professional sports clubs and athletes.
It was in 2021 that he came across Hyrox and was the 2nd athlete ever to reach 50 Hyrox races.
He has repeating the U.K. at the 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 World Championships and had appeared in 4 successive European Championships as well as finishing 2nd & 3rd in the last 2 North American Championships.
He travels the world now competing in this sport and is in the top 5% of athletes world wide in his AG.
He runs a very successful coaching business and works with athletes from all different ages, levels and abilities across the globe.
