While we are only a week into the new year, news around the sport of fitness is flying around rapidly. The in-person qualifiers for the CrossFit Games are releasing qualifying information, the World Fitness Project is dropping its stacked roster of contract athletes for the season and Wodapalooza is just around the corner.
For Wodapalooza this year, they gifted us the full athlete list ahead of time. With the individual rosters available, I thought it’d be a good chance to dive into the details and find some fun facts around this years competition.
- Ricky Garard (2024 & 2023) and Patrick Vellner (2019, 2021 &, 2022) have combined to win the last 5 Wodapalooza competitions and are both competing in 2025
- Brooke Wells is the only woman to have previously won Wodapalooza. She won back in 2016.
- 21 women competing at Wodaplooza this year also competed as individuals at the CrossFit Games in 2024. This covers 47% of the competitive field.
- In comparison, only 14 men competing at Wodapalooza also competed at the Games, which comprises 36% of the athletes.
- In total 24 women have competed at the CrossFit Games a total of 68 times
- The men’s field have also made 68 individual trips to the CrossFit Games, but by only 20 men.
- 24 women and 16 men will be making their rookie appearance in the Elite field at Wodapalooza.
- Hattie Kanyo, who was a rookie at the CrossFit Games in 2024, is one of 5 women who have competed in the RX division at Wodapalooza over the last 5 years.
- 8 men have previously competed in the RX division, including Games athletes Gui Malheiros (2020), Nick Mathew (2020) and Enrico Zenoni (2022)
- Dani Speegle leads all women competing with 4 Wodaplooza event wins since 2019. Speegle trails only Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr who has 7 event wins during that time period.
- Patrick Vellner has 8 Wodapalooza event wins since 2019, the most of any men, and 6 more than the next nearest competitor from 2025.
- Laura Horváth is making her individual debut at Wodaplooza. The last time she did not finish on the podium in an in-person competition was the 2021 Rogue Invitational.
- Dani Speegle, Arielle Loewen and Bethany Flores are the only women competing to finish on the Wodaplooza podium since 2019.
- In addition to Garard and Vellner, Travis Mayer and Alexandre Caron are the only Wodapalooza podium finishers since 2019.
- Jeffrey Adler is making his second appearance as an individual at Wodaplooza. He finished in 17th in his rookie year of 2019.
- Two thirds of the men competing in Miami also competed as individuals at Semifinals this year. 73% of the women’s field also competed at Semifinals.
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