Top-100 Ranked Men and Women in Competitive Fitness – Summer 2025

This season is a wild one, with the emergence of WFP, the reduction in participation in the CrossFit Games season, some athletes doing everything, others doing seemingly nothing on the biggest stages… It’s a lot to keep track of. 

There is no perfect way to quantify the world wide ranking of this sport at the moment. Apollo Performance Analytics is the best look at a two year span, but it is written in certain parameters that cannot account for immediate feedback when an athlete gets injured, pregnant, or, on the other hand, emerges onto the scene and is obviously a contender from the start. 

The CrossFit Worldwide Ranking system was never really something to be taken seriously, and as with many of their initiatives, it seems to have fallen completely off the map. The Mountain by John Young is a good reference for a real time look at the elite of the elite, but doesn’t have depth of field to it.

Based on the culmination of my job, travel, and research, this is a ranking of the 100 fittest men and women involved in competitive fitness this year. It is done exclusively by me, Brian Friend. And while it is my opinion and the end of the day, I do think it is the closest thing we have to a real time look at the fittest 100 athletes competing in CrossFit and fitness competitions around the world. 

The Top 10 

Rank	Athlete		Rank	Athlete
1	Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr		1	Jeff Adler
2	Laura Horvath		2	James Sprague
3	Lucy Campbell		3	Austin Hatfield
4	Alex Gazan*		4	Jayson Hopper
5	Danielle Brandon		5	Dallin Pepper
6	Arielle Loewen		6	Ricky Garard
7	Aimee Cringle		7	Justin Medeiros
8	Emma Lawson		8	Roman Khrennikov
9	Alexis Raptis		9	Jay Crouch
10	Madeline Sturt		10	Colten Mertens

Two rather different top 10 stories. While the women have a clear number 1, and then clear number 2, and then quite a debate to follow, the men are nearly impossible to sort within the top 5, and arguably down to 8. 

The women are more divided in terms of where they are competing for a variety of different reasons, and on the other hand, the men are all competing everywhere they can. 

Rankings 11-25

Rank	Athlete		Rank	Athlete
11	Abigail Domit		11	Patrick Vellner
12	Emma Tall		12	Gui Malheiros
13	Fee Saghafi		13	Jelle Hoste
14	Lexi Neely		14	Noah Ohlsen
15	Haley Adams		15	Jonne Koski
16	Brooke Wells		16	Sam Kwant
17	Olivia Kerstetter		17	Harry Lightfoot
18	Elisa Fuliano		18	Moritz Fiebig
19	Karin Freyova		19	Luka Dukic
20	Jamie Simmonds		20	Nick Mathew
21	Grace Walton		21	Aniol Ekai
22	Emily de Rooy		22	Bronislaw Olenkowicz
23	Claudia Gluck		23	Chandler Smith
24	Dani Speegle		24	Bayley Martin
25	Anikha Greer		25	Björgvin Karl Gudmundsson

This range is much more difficult in general because many of these athletes are only doing either the Games season, or the WFP season; and in a couple cases, they aren’t doing either. And yet, they are all competing, and are all competitive within the top 25. 

This summer we may get to see a few of them in action for the only time against a relevant field. Later this fall, we may have a chance to see some others at a variety of off season competitions as well.

Rankings 26-50

Rank	Athlete		Rank	Athlete
26	Manon Angonese		26	Chris Ibarra
27	Sydney Wells		27	Victor Hoffer
28	Kristin Holte		28	Ty Jenkins
29	Andrea Solberg		29	Colin Bosshard
30	Oda Lundekvam		30	Bill Leahy
31	Seungyeon Choi		31	Travis Mayer
32	Lydia Fish		32	Jack Rozema
33	Sydney Michalyshen		33	Tudor Magda
34	Jennifer Muir		34	Calum Clements
35	Paige Semenza		35	Nate Ackerman
36	Lucy McGonigle		36	Peter Ellis
37	Georgia Pryer		37	Jorge Fernandez
38	Hattie Kanyo		38	Kalyan Souza
39	Carolyne Prevost		39	Spencer Panchik
40	Nina Vragovic		40	Sam Cournoyer
41	Andra Moistus		41	Uldis Upenieks
42	Seher Kaya		42	Fabian Hermans
43	Linda Keesman		43	Nika Maisuradze
44	Kyra Milligan		44	Jack Farlow
45	Caroline Stanley		45	Fabian Beneito
46	Shelby Neal		46	Girogos Karavis
47	Emily Rolfe*		47	Max Krieg
48	Sara Sigmundsdottir		48	Sven Geens
49	Reese Littlewood		49	George Sterner
50	Aline Wirz		50	Ben Fowler

In this range there are certainly some athletes I’m putting some faith in with these picks, and there are others whose ranking is just hanging on based on performances from the last couple of years and the chance to return to being almost as good. In those cases, if we don’t see them in competition, and doing well in competition soon, they will continue to be moved down the list. 

Rankings 51-75

Rank	Athlete		Rank	Athlete
51	Janie Cheverie		51	Isaac Newman
52	Siria Meha		52	Alex Kotoulas
53	Trista Smith		53	Luis Cuellar
54	Hannah Black		54	Connor Voltz
55	Daisy McDonald		55	John Wood
56	Ella Wilkinson		56	Anestis Artemis
57	Mariana Meza		57	Enrico Zenoni
58	Veslemoy Kollstad		58	Seth Stovall
59	Caroline Spencer		59	Alexandre Caron
60	Vår Thurman Moe		60	Matt Brady
61	Rebecca Fuselier		61	Toby Buckland
62	Bergros Bjornsdottir		62	Drake Lewis
63	Tayla Howe		63	Luka Vunjak
64	Maddi Foutz		64	Tom Kingdon
65	Elena Carratala		65	Jacob Marlow
66	Leah Storen		66	Lucas Heuze
67	Elizabeth Wishart		67	Travon Benton
68	Rachel Noel		68	Morteza Sedaghat
69	Erica Folo		69	Luke de Jong
70	Gemma Hauck		70	CJ Gerald
71	Mirjam von Rohr		71	Tanner Balazs
72	Ella Price		72	Nicolas Bedon
73	Jasmien Van Arnhem		73	Tiago Luzes
74	Miley Wade		74	Henrique Morereira
75	Noortje Bleeker		75	Tola Morakinyo

A huge international contingency of athletes who have almost no competition against each other fall into this range. It has been one of the more intriguing learnings during traveling to all these competitions in terms of attempting to understand how a fifth place finish at Torian will compare to a second place finish in Finland, versus a 25th place finish at WFP Pro Indianapolis, etc. 

The competitive fields vary so dramatically, the relevance and timeliness of competitions can be massively impactful, the specific movements and workouts selected at each competition can have a much bigger effect in this range, however, I feel strongly that all these women are in the top 100 if the breadth of test is relatively balanced and thorough. 

Rankings 76-100

Rank	Athlete		Rank	Athlete
76	Rikke Laursen		76	Michal Wesolowski
77	Anna Ivanova		77	Justin Johnson
78	Julia Jakobsen		78	Noah Wilson
79	Synne Samseth		79	RJ Mestre
80	Connie Easby		80	Victor Helsinghof
81	Silvia Garcia Izquierdo		81	Ludvig Hahnsen
82	Christine Kolenbrander		82	Royce Dunne
83	Margaux Masset		83	Zane Shellabear-Healey
84	Evie Hollis		84	Riley Martin
85	Elsie Larson		85	Jan Arnd Finkenberg
86	Karisa Stapp		86	Guillaume Briant
87	Caitlin Bernardin		87	Miko Lilleorg
88	Christina Livaditakis		88	Nikita Yundov
89	Emily Rethwill		89	Roldan Goldbaum
90	Briony Challis		90	Hiko o Te Rangi Curtis
91	Hayley Adams		91	Tatu Eeronheimo
92	Poppy Hay		92	Sam Zerlik
93	Madeleine Persson		93	Haraldur Holgersson
94	Liisa Laiko		94	Bruno Marins
95	Jasmine Ghiraldi		95	Mathias Porter
96	Steinunn Svansdottir		96	Tomaso Pieri
97	Holly Tynan		97	Julius Kieser
98	Maria Quintero		98	Casey Strong
99	Luiza Marques		99	Carlos Ferrara
100	Agustina Haag		100	Gui Quan Yang

Naturally, the biggest variance comes at the bottom of a list like this. There are several athletes on this list who some of you will not know at all. There are others of you who may know some of these athletes very well and think they are significantly better or worse than I do due to your proximity to the athlete. 

Every athlete on here has shown either the capacity to excel in a relatively competitive field, and/or the ability to consistently show up and perform above average in a significant way against similar fields over and over. 

Some of them will move off of this list soon and not ever appear on it again, others will move up dramatically in the next 12 months. This is sort of the fun part of the list where you aren’t sure what the next 1-3 years will hold. They can’t all move up, but some of them absolutely will.