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Hungarian functional fitness star Laura Horváth has been crowned as the inaugural World Fitness Project Champion, after she produced a dominant performance over four days and nine workouts in Copenhagen to close out the season. Here is all you need to know:
– The World Fitness Project (WFP) launched as a new competitive fitness league this year designed to bring professional and everyday athletes together with over 500 competitors at each event striking a balance between elite performance and community participation.
– Founded by former CrossFit Games athlete Will Moorad – together with Isabella and Jackson Terry – WFP recruited 40 elite athletes as paid professionals and, for those not under contract, online qualifiers offered a chance to earn a spot on the competition floor.
– Horváth – named The Fittest Woman on Earth in 2023 – was one of the star attractions this season in the women’s event, while Finland’s Jonne Koski and Serbian Luka Đukić lined up in a strong men’s competition looking to finish the year as champion.
– Horváth’s title run did not begin smoothly as the 28-year old opened the World Fitness Project season slowly, however she responded at Tour Stop 2 with a decisive win to stay in contention ahead of the World Fitness Finals in Copenhagen, where the pressure was highest and the margin for error smallest.
– The Danish capital city was the setting for the most demanding stop of the maiden season with strength, conditioning, skill, and mental resilience needed plus double points on the line for the win.
– Over the opening days, 28-year-old Horváth had to absorb setbacks after being overtaken by competitors and enduring costly no-reps on the competition floor while she only placed 20th in one of the workouts.
– After the first two days, she revealed: “It’s a long weekend, what’s in the past is in the past. I just focus on today and want to keep the momentum rolling from last night.”
– Horváth, though, kept her eyes on the prize and ground down the competition to put herself back in the driving seat and ultimately take the top spot with 791 points and the season title with 1910 overall points.
– Asked about the key to staying composed through the swings of a championship weekend, Horváth added: “Experience, practice, believing yourself – not crumbling under pressure, not looking at the leaderboard too much, just focusing on the next task, and not where I’m at but where I’m going.”
World Fitness Project final season leaderboard
Women
2) Aimee Cringle (United Kingdom)
3) Emma Lawson (Canada)
Men
1) James Sprague (United States)
2) Dallin Pepper (United States)
3) Ricky Garard (Australia)
