Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr (née Toomey; born 22 July 1993)[3] is an Australian weightlifter and CrossFit Games athlete.
[6][7] She grew up in Dunethin Rock along the Maroochy River on the Sunshine Coast, where her parents worked on a cane farm.
[6] There she worked for a time as a dental assistant, and then as a lab technician at a Rio Tinto facility.
[16] The 2017 CrossFit Games was again a close-fought competition, this time between Toomey and fellow Australian Kara Webb.
[23] Prior to the 2023 CrossFit Games, Toomey indicated that she would not compete that year due to her pregnancy; nevertheless, she took part in the Open that season while pregnant.
Toomey lifted her then-best 85 kg (187 lb) clean and jerk at a CrossFit competition in September 2013 after training for only 6 months,[9] and her performance caught the attention of the weightlifting coach Miles Wydall.
[26][27] In December 2020, Toomey announced her plan to train with the Australian bobsleigh team and try to qualify for the 2022 Winter Olympics in China.
[33] Toomey 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,[34][35] later introduced to each other at a fishing competition.
[39][40][41] She moved in 2021 to East Nashville, Tennessee used as a base for PRVN Fitness training camp where her husband is head coach.
[42][43] She appeared in a Super Bowl LV commercial along with fellow CrossFitter Josh Bridges.