Read the complete write-up of Tia-Clair Toomey net worth, age, husband, children, height, family, parents, Olympics, CrossFit Games, records as well as other information you need to know.
Introduction
Tia-Clair Toomey is an Australian weightlifter and CrossFit Games athlete. She won the gold medal in the women’s 58 kg (128 lb) event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast. She also competed in the women’s 58 kg (128 lb) event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and came in 14th. In the CrossFit Games, she was the winner of the 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 CrossFit Games after being the runner-up in 2015 and 2016.
Early life
| Name | Tia-Clair Toomey |
| Net Worth | $4 million |
| Occupation | Weightlifter |
| Height | 1.63m |
| Age | 28 years |
Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr was born on July 22, 1993 (age 28 years) in Debbi and Brendon Toomey in Nambour, Queensland, Australia. She is the eldest daughter of three girls born by her parents. She grew up in Dunethin Rock along the Maroochy River on the Sunshine Coast, where her parents worked on a cane farm.
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Toomey attended a primary school in North Arm, Queensland before the family moved to Weipa when she was 12. She studied at Western Cape College in Weipa, and then boarded at the Townsville Grammar School in Townsville in 2009. After finishing school in 2011, she went to study nursing at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. However, she left after six months and moved to Gladstone to be with her future husband Shane Orr. There she worked for a time as a dental assistant, and then as a lab technician at a Rio Tinto facility.
She competed in athletics while she was at school as a runner. When she was in Gladstone, she focused on 400m hurdling and was introduced to CrossFit by Shane Orr who had used it to supplement his training while he was playing for Gladstone Rugby Union. Although she was initially reluctant, she became involved in the sport and started participating in CrossFit competitions soon after in 2013. She learned the basics of weightlifting through her CrossFit classes.
CrossFit Games career
Tia-Clair Toomey first competed in the CrossFit Open less than a month after learning CrossFit in 2013. The following year she qualified for the Regionals but was only ranked 18th in the Australian Regional. Toomey first qualified for the CrossFit Games in 2015 after two years of CrossFit competitions. She finished runner-up to Katrín Davíðsdóttir in her debut year and was named Rookie of the Year.
At the 2016 CrossFit Games, the women’s competition was tightly fought between Davíðsdóttir and Tia-Clair Toomey, but Toomey was again placed second after Davíðsdóttir managed to hold off a strong challenge from Toomey to win a second time.
The 2017 CrossFit Games was again a close-fought competition, this time between Toomey and fellow Australian Kara Webb. Significantly, Webb was penalized after a judging error which resulted in dropped points for Webb in the penultimate event. Toomey won her first Games in a tight finish, beating Webb by only two points.
Tia-Clair Toomey won convincingly with a 64-point lead over second-place Laura Horvath at the 2018 Games. The following year in the 2019 Games, she won with a large margin of 195 points over Kristin Holte and became the first woman to win three CrossFit Games.
Toomey extended her record to four consecutive wins in 2020. Her performance in 2020 was the most dominant display ever by a female CrossFit athlete at the Games, winning 9 of the 12 events in the final stage at the Games, with a margin of victory of 360 points over Katrín Davíðsdóttir.
She further extended the number of titles won to five at the 2021 CrossFit Games with another dominant display, winning 9 out of 15 events at the Games and setting a record score of 1,435. The five wins equalled the record set by Mat Fraser, and she also broke Fraser’s record of 29 total event wins by setting a new record of 33 event wins.
Toomey also competed in weightlifting at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She won gold in the 58 kg (128 lb) event with a combined total of 201 kg (443 lb).
Olympics
Tia-Clair Toomey lifted her then-personal best 85 kg (187 lb) clean and jerk at a CrossFit competition in September 2013 after training for only 6 months, and her performance caught the attention of the weightlifting coach Miles Wydall. He later offered to coach Toomey on weightlifting and encouraged Toomey to try to get to the Rio Olympics representing Australia.
After just 18 months of serious weightlifting training, she qualified for the Olympics when she finished third at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships with a combined lift of 194 kg (428 lb). In the Olympic weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women’s 58 kg division, but missed her personal best by 5 kg (11 lb) and finished 14th.
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Tia-Clair Toomey announced in December 2020 her plan to train with the Australian bobsleigh team and try to qualify for the 2022 Winter Olympics to be held in China. In her first bobsled competition in South Korea in February 2021, she won two races as brake woman in a two-woman bobsled team. Her team qualified for the Winter Olympic in January 2022, however, they were not selected for the Australian team due to regulations that the new event monobob and the 2-woman team must have the same driver, and the monobob driver Bree Walker was favoured and chosen.
Husband
Tia-Clair Toomey is married to her longtime boyfriend Shane Orr, they had their wedding in 2017. She met her husband and coach, Shane Orr, while she was still in high school and they were both participating in a local triathlon event in Weipa. They married in 2017. They owned a gym in Gladstone, which they sold in early 2019 after they moved to Cookeville, Tennessee in early October to train at Rich Froning’s gym CrossFit Mayhem. Multiple CrossFit Games male champion, Mat Fraser, then trained with them in Cookeville and Shane coached both of them in preparation for the 2019 and 2020 CrossFit Games. She moved in 2021 to Nashville, Tennessee used as a base for PRVN Fitness training camp where her husband is the head coach.
Tia-Clair Toomey net worth
How much is Tia-Clair Toomey worth? Tia-Clair Toomey net worth is estimated at around $4 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a weightlifter and CrossFit Games athlete. Toomey successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy cars trips. She is one of the richest and influential weightlifters and CrossFit Games athletes in Australia. She appeared in a Super Bowl LV commercial along with fellow CrossFitter Josh Bridges.