Hungarian success at Crossfit Games

Laura Horváth is the first individual woman to fly the Hungarian flag at the CrossFit Games. We are insanely proud of the 21-year-old Hungarian woman who came in second at the 2018 Games in Madison, USA. Her success is even sweeter since this was her first time at the Games, she came as a rookie and then won second place, index.hu reports.

The CrossFit Games is an athletic competition held every summer since 2007. The athletes compete in workouts that they learn about hours or days beforehand. The workouts consist of some standard aerobic, weightlifting and gymnastics movements but there is also some additional surprise element.

The CrossFit Games season has three stages of competition: the Open, Regionals, and the Games. This year there were about half a million athletes signed up for the Open competition. There were more than a 100,000 women competing individually, and only 40 of them got to go to the USA for the Games.

Laura has been training at the CrossFit B’Bros in Budapest. Since last year, she had Michele Letendre as her coach.

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The first stage of the games, the Open, is held over five weeks in February and March. Participation is open to anyone. A new workout is released on each Thursday and competitors have to complete the workout, anywhere they like, and submit the scores. This May Laura Horváth qualified for the games as the second Hungarian ever, and the first Hungarian woman. The first Hungarian CrossFit competitor was László “Lacee” Kovács in 2013. He came in 15^th at the Games.