He had been on the podium four times before, but this was the first time he had been able to win.
Laura Horvat Won the CrossFit World Championship.
Previously, Horvath has twice placed second and third at the CrossFit Games, with competitors competing in 12 events this year. The competitions included cycling, weightlifting, running 5 km, squatting with a huge sandbag, so all tasks that require physical strength, endurance and endurance.
This is how the eighth competition looked like, consisting of several tasks such as:
Horvath started the final day in second place, 48 points behind the Canadian Emma Lawson behind. The first competition on the final day consisted of two tasks, first you had to pull yourself up on the track seven times, then you had to throw a bag full of sand over three obstacles and repeat this five times.
Horvath took the lead on lap five, and since then he hasn’t given it to anyone else. He won a total of five events and finished in the top five in two others. He was paid $315,000 (about 113 million HUF) for his victory.
for Canadian men Jeffrey Adler had won.
Before Horvath’s success, another Hungarian managed to stand on the podium in the competition held in Madison, USA, Mira Varga It ranked third in the 14-15 age group.