Laura Horvath

Laura Horvath is one of CrossFit's top athletes. After participating for 4 years in the Open and qualifying for the Regionals on 3 occasions, it participated for the first time in the CrossFit Games in 2018 being the youngest athlete and coming in second place. After several years of trying, the Hungarian was crowned Fittest on Earth in 2023.

2025

No participation in the CrossFit Open 2025.

Laura decides not to participate in the Open season as she did not appear or upload any score to the official Leaderboard.

Entry into the World Fitness Project 2025

In February 2025, Laura Horváth was announced as a member of the new league. World Fitness Projectjoining 38 other elite athletes (including 2023 men's champion Jeff Adler) to compete in this inaugural series of events in 2025.

This parallel tour to the official CrossFit circuit offers three face-to-face events in the year and guarantees a salary to the participating "Pro" athletes, allowing Horváth to diversify his competitions.

Wodapalooza 2025 (Miami) - Individual runner-up

In January 2025, Horváth competed in the festival. TYR Wodapalooza in Miami, one of the most important off-season CrossFit events. He achieved the 2nd place in the elite women's individual categoryonly five points behind champion Lucy Campbell

The competition took place over two days with six challenging events, and the minimal difference in the final score reflected how close the battle for the title was, with Horváth demonstrating great consistency against world-class athletes.

2024

Hungary National Weightlifting Championships 2024 - Gold Medal (76 kg)

In November 2024, just one week after his participation in the Rogue Invitational, Horváth returned to his home country to compete in the Hungarian National Weightlifting Championships. There he was consecrated champion in the 76 kg category with a perfect performanceachieving 6 valid lifts out of 6 attempts (pull-ups up to 90 kg and two-stroke lifts up to 112 kg).

Horváth revalidated the national title which he had already obtained in 2023, keeping him at the top of Hungarian weightlifting in his weight category.

Rogue Invitational 2024 (Scotland) - 2nd Place

In November 2024, Horváth had an outstanding performance at the Rogue InvitationalThe event, an elite competition held in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Obtained the runner-up The women's individual, finishing behind only the multi-champion Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, who was returning to the competition that year.

Horváth won four of the nine events of the weekend (all events in which Toomey-Orr did not win).

This performance equaled a milestone Horváth had already achieved in 2022, by stringing together four consecutive victories in Rogue Invitational events underlining her status as one of the strongest athletes on the circuit.

CrossFit Games 2024 (Fort Worth, TX) - Retirement after Tragedy

Horváth reached the CrossFit Games 2024 in Fort Worth, Texas as the defending champion after winning the 2023 Games. However, the event was marked by tragedy: during Event 1 (a combined run and swim in open water) the Serbian athlete Lazar Đukić suffered a fatal incident.

Following confirmation of Đukić's death, Laura Horváth (along with her brother Kristóf who participated in the team division). decided to retire of the competition in protest.

In a public statement, both harshly criticized the organization, claiming that CrossFit "only cares about money" and calling the response of some competitors to what happened inhumane.

Games prep at Krypton CrossFit with Gabriela Migala

She travels to the United States to prepare for the Games at Krypton CrossFit with Gabriela Migala. Both train under the supervision of Ben Smith.

Semifinal of Europe 2024 (French Throwdown) - Champion

In May 2024, during the European Semifinal (official event French Throwdown in Décines-Charpieu, France), Horváth showed his absolute dominance by crowning champion for the second time in a row. She led the table with 570 points accumulated, beating runner-up Gabriela Migała by 30 points.

Event 1: 7ª
Event 2: 1ª
Event 3: 3ª
Event 4: 1ª
Event 5: 2ª
Event 6: 2ª

Thanks to this victory, he obtained his 7th consecutive qualification to the CrossFit Games 2024reaffirming her position as the strongest athlete in Europe and paving the way to defend her world title that year.

Quarterfinals

Second in Europe and fourth worldwide.

Open

28th in Europe and 62nd worldwide.

2023

ROGUE Invitational

Repeats as winner of the ROGUE invitational for the 2nd consecutive year.

However, Tia-Clair Toomeywho was returning to competition just 5 months after giving birth, did not make it easy for her.

Toomey was leader after the first and third day, Horvath was leader after the second day.

Both arrived with the same points to the last event, which consisted of 3 rounds of 25 double underscombined with 5 power clean in the first round, 5 squat clean in the second and 5 clean and jerk in the third.

Laura Horvath took the victory and when asked what it meant to her to win this title again, the Hungarian said:

It means a lot because after the Games everyone said I won because Tia wasn't there. And I have proven to myself and to those who doubted me that I won because I deserve to be on the podium.

CrossFit Games 2023

Laura becomes the winner of the CrossFit Games 2023. After years of coming close to this coveted award.

She was 3rd in 2022 and 2nd in 2021 and 2018.

The Hungarian won 5 events and went from strength to strength.

Events won:
Ski-Bag
Olympic Total
Muscle Up Logs
Parallel-bar Pull
Echo Thruster Final

Semifinals

She was third in the Semifinal European.

2022

ROGUE Invitational 2022

Win the ROGUE Invitational 2022 in the first edition without Tia-Clair Toomey.

She becomes the athlete with the most consecutive event wins, 4, a title previously held by Toomey with 3.

Despite her win, we saw that the parallel Handstand push ups are still her weakness. The first event of the last day, was also done in 2019, and it was in which Laura Horvath was not able to do any rep. The athlete assured that this time she would be able to do all 27. Unfortunately, she got stuck again at that same point and was able to do only 3 reps, placing second to last in the table.

CrossFit Games 2022

At her fifth consecutive CrossFit Games appearance, Horvath earned back-to-back wins on the final day of competition and finished seven events in the top five.

She was last in the ECHO PRESS event that included deficit HSPU with block. Handstand push-ups remain the Hungarian athlete's biggest weakness.

This year, Horvath placed 103rd in the Open, finished ninth in the Quarterfinal in Europe, and won the CrossFit Lowlands Throwdown Semifinal.

2021

ROGUE INVITATIONAL

She participated in the ROGUE Invitational 2021 achieving a 4th place. She showed again her deficiencies in the handstand push-ups being last in this event. wod.

2nd at the CrossFit Games 2021

She recovers her best form during the CrossFit Games 2021 and achieves the second place.

She takes first place in the Lowlands Throwdown Semifinal and earned her ticket to the NOBULL CrossFit Games 2021.

Travels weeks early before the CrossFit Games to CrossFit Krypton to get with his new coach Ben Smith.

2020

Participates in the first phase of the CrossFit Games in online format, but fails to qualify in the top 5 for the final phase at the Ranch.

Won Strength in Depth in 2020 demonstrating that the athlete is back in shape.

2019

Laura did not perform really well at the 2019 CrossFit Games , and finishes 14th. Very far from her success in 2018.

Reappears at the 2019 ROGUE Invitational, and we see that she continues with the problems she had been showing in Dubai.

His weakness in the paralette hand stand push up are still evident and the athlete was not able to perform any repetitions.

2018 - 2nd in the CF Games

Laura appears in the Dubai CrossFit Championship with a surprising appearance to all the fans, the athlete had gained weight, negatively affecting her performance in the tests.

Her coach, Michelle Letendre confirmed that her offseason had taken its toll. But she wanted to allow the athlete herself to learn what was most important for her, rather than demanding a certain amount of work in the weeks after the Games.

Eventually, she dropped out due to a back injury.

Becomes rookie athlete of the 2018 CrossFit Games, despite not winning any events on the first day, Laura did a more than outstanding job and the athlete wore the leader jersey.

She won the first event of the third day and finally made many merits that earned her an outstanding second place on the podium.

That result earned her a contract with the prestigious American brand, Nike.

2017

We saw Laura compete at the Dubai Fitness Championship and knew that she would be a great rival for the CrossFit athletes during the coming season.

In that competition, she finished in second place, ahead of recognized athletes such as Kara Saunders or Lauren Fisher.

2016

Participates in Regionals for the first time and finishes 7th.

I was able to meet this athlete, who at the time was unknown, in the rest and recovery area.

Competition results

Personal stats

Horvath's coach

Currently, it appears that Laura does not have a trainer. After the 2024 Gamess, she distanced herself from her former sister-in-law and appears to be training herself.

Before this, he trained under the supervision of the veteran CrossFit athlete, Ben Smith. The programming is called Krypton Athletics.

He was also training under the tutelage of another veteran CrossFit athlete, Michele Letendre.