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The death occurred on the first day of the CrossFit Games, being held in Fort Worth through Sunday. The events have been canceled for the rest of the day, CrossFit said.
Lazar Dukic, 28, of Serbia, was identified as the deceased swimmer, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner
The incident occurred Thursday morning in Marine Creek Lake. The Fort Worth Fire Department responded around 8 a.m. local time to a call regarding a CrossFit Games participant who went missing in the water, authorities said.
First responders used dive teams and a drone to find Dukic, who was recovered from the water about an hour after the dive team response, authorities said.
The body of the athlete was then transferred to the Tarrant County medical examiner.
Dukic was competing in his fourth CrossFit Games, along with his brother, Luka Dukic. He placed ninth in his first CrossFit Games in 2021, then eighth and ninth again the following two years.
Dukic played water polo for 10 years in Serbia before retiring from the sport and moving to the United States to study, according to the brand TYR Sport, which signed him to a deal in 2022. He returned to Serbia in 2017 and earned the title of "Serbia's Fittest Man" for five years straight, according to TYR Sport.
