A CrossFit athlete died in Texas on Thursday while taking part in the swimming portion of a competition, officials said.
Lazar Đukić, 28, vanished near the end of a livestreamed 800-meter swim at the CrossFit Games in Fort Worth’s Marine Creek Lake around 8 a.m. Thursday.
First responders pulled a body from the lake about two hours later.
The CrossFit Games confirmed that an athlete had died in a statement on Thursday afternoon.
“CrossFit is deeply saddened by the death of a CrossFit Games competitor during the swimming portion of Individual Event 1 at the 2024 CrossFit Games,” the statement read.
The rest of the day’s events were suspended.
Đukić, who was from Serbia, had competed in the CrossFit Games for several years.
He was ranked third in Serbia and 88th in the world in the male category.
Đukić vanished during the swimming portion of the individual run swim, which started with a 3.5-mile run and was capped off by the 800-meter swim.