A Nanaimo athlete competed at a world championship sporting event that invites only the very fittest.

Graham Giske, a former VIU Mariners basketball player, represented Nanaimo at the adaptive CrossFit Games in Las Vegas this month, finishing as high as sixth in his best event.

CrossFit is a strength and fitness regimen, and the CrossFit Games are a chance to turn it into a sporting competition consisting of a series of workouts. Giske has trained at CrossFit Nanaimo for a few years, and this year the 40-year-old broke through by becoming the only Canadian to qualify for the games in his division. Getting to that point came with a lot of pride, and it was a big motivator, he said, to think about the games as an opportunity he had worked for.

A little over a decade ago, while teaching in

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