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Home » News » Who Will Win at 2025 TYR Wodapalooza? We Asked a Team of Experts for Their Predictions

Who Will Win at 2025 TYR Wodapalooza? We Asked a Team of Experts for Their Predictions

Horvath is the favorite. After that, there's plenty of room for debate.

Written by Scott Freymond
Last updated on May 28th, 2025

The 2025 TYR Wodapalooza is upon us, and with it comes our first chance to see elite athletes in action this year. 

  • We reached out to some of the experts in the field to attempt the impossible task of predicting the outcome. 

We independently ranked the women, men, and teams based on where we believe they will finish this week. 

  • All of us mostly agreed at the top of the leaderboard. In fact, all eight experts ranked Laura Horvath first. 

No surprise there. 

However, it quickly got interesting as we made our way down the leaderboard. 

Will Horvath dominate as we all expect? Can Ricky Garard pull off the three-peat? We will undoubtedly witness plenty of surprises as athletes work to make a name for themselves. 

The analysts/experts we reached out to included:

  • Tommy Marquez, Talking Elite Fitness. 
  • Dave Charlton, Fran Lung Analytics
  • Brian Friend, BFriendly Fitness
  • Mike Halpin, Known & Knowable
  • Julia Papworth, Morning Chalk Up and The Fantasy Footballers
  • John Young, Barbell Spin
  • Patrick Clark (PC), BFriendly Fitness
  • Scotty Freymond, Morning Chalk Up
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We wanted to take this opportunity to gather some juicy educated guesses from some of the top analysts and squeeze them into one list. 

Check out the rankings below, and make sure to watch the 2025 TYR Wodapalooza to see how it all plays out in Miami Beach. 

Note: Blank spaces indicate that the analyst had the athlete outside their top 20 individuals / top five teams.  

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One last thing: We also want to encourage you to check out Apollo Perform for global ratings. 

  • This computer-generated list uses the vast amount of data gathered and imputed by Barclay Dale. 

It removes hunches, biases, and emotions from the equation — three factors that can either help or hinder our predictions. Stay tuned; it will be fun to see the differences at the end of the weekend.

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About Scott Freymond

Scott is a Level 2 CrossFit Coach, a Physical Therapist Assistant, and small business owner. He developed a passion for CrossFit in 2014 after a professional basketball career in Mexico and Germany. He has been coaching since 2016 at Arbor CrossFit in Boise, Idaho. He loves to travel, mountain bike, and hang with his cats.

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