Khan Porter is an Australian athlete who has been competing at an international level in the very popular fitness sport of CrossFit. He is a talented rounded athlete having played rugby for the state and trained as a national surf lifesaver. He first started to compete at a regional level in 2013. Porter has competed at a high level in national, regional and international competition since then competing at the CrossFit games an annual athletic competition owned and operated by CrossFit, Inc.
Some examples of the rankings achieved include in 2015 coming 1st in the men’s individual in the Pacific Regional. In the same year he was ranked 2nd in Australia and 29th in the world. More recently in 2018 he was 3rd in the men’s Pacific Regional. In 2020 he was ranked 2nd in Australia and 58th in the world.
Porter has a successful career with his own business Cross Fit Play in New South Wales. He acts as a model for fitness and coach inspiring others with many followers on social media.
He has studied for a degree in Psychology and uses his popularity as a platform to promote men’s mental health. He is open about his own anxieties and the pressures of competing. He is a keynote speaker and runs workshops about training competing and mental health. When competing he trains hard 6 days a week for 3-5 hours.