Lucho, Heffernan, and Fink Claim Top Spots in 2024/25 Rankings

Posted on Jun 1 2025 - 5:01am by DV
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The nine-event 2024/25 Race 4 Eight season concluded on the first Sunday in May at the Aces Player’s Championship with Lucho Cordova clinching the R48 Player’s Cup for the second time with his thirteenth Race 4 Eight title, Niamh Heffernan winning the WR48 Player’s Cup with her first career WR48 title at the Player’s Championship, and David Fink clinching his seventh SR48 Player’s Cup. 

Five-time 2024/25 Race champion Martin Mulkerrins finished the season at number two behind Lucho Cordova, followed by Leo Canales, Ray Ure, Ivan Burgos, and Mark Doyle, all of whom earned his best career year-end finish. Danos Cordova finished inside the Race 4 Eight Elite 8 at number seven, while David Fink finished inside the Race 4 Eight Elite 8 for the thirteenth consecutive season.

Niamh Heffernan sits atop the WR48 standings, while Clodagh Munroe (#2), Aoife Holden (#3), and Mikaila Esser (#4) finished the season inside the WR48 Fab 4. 2025 WR48 Player’s Championship finalist Fiona Tully finished the season at number seven.

David Fink finished in the top spot in the SR48 for the seventh time, followed by 2025 SR Player’s Champion Sean Lenning (#2), Bill Mehilos (#3), and Adam Bernhard (#4).   

See all of the 2024/25 year-end Race 4 Eight rankings below.

WPH Pro Men’s Ranking Methodology PDF

WPH Pro Women’s Ranking Methodology PDF

WPH Senior 40+ Ranking Methodology PDF

WPH RACE 4 EIGHT: The World Players of Handball’s Race 4 Eight Powered by ESPN features Race 4 Eight stops around the country, all culminating with The Player’s Championship in Utah each May. Similar to NASCAR’s Nextel Cup and the FedEx PGA Playoffs, players earn points in the Race 4 Eight’s regular season stops to qualify for the season-ending Player’s Championship and bonus prizes. The top 8 elite men will receive bonus cash after the season-ending rankings are tallied up; meanwhile, the top 4 Sr 40+ and Women’s ‘Fab Four’ will also receive bonuses. The amount of these bonuses fluctuate from year-to-year Please contact the WPH for this season’s bonus structure.  Email the WPH for detailed explanations regarding the ranking system, seeds and bonus pay-outs at season’s end: info@wphlive.tv

For more information on the WPH Race 4 Eight title sponsor opportunity, please contact World Players of Handball Executive Director David Vincent at info@wphlive.tv or World Players of Handball Development Director David Fink at david.fink@wphlive.tv. For more information on the World Players of Handball, please visit wphlive.tv

Tournament seeds reflect rankings at the time of the event but are not the sole determining factor. The WPH retains the discretion to seed players based on their skill level, recent performance, and injury status.

The Executive Director will seed each tournament in a manner that respects the objectivity of the WPH rankings, while acknowledging that some unranked players are strong enough to disrupt the integrity of a draw if not seeded subjectively. Therefore, the seeding process will involve the objective constraint that no ranked player may be seeded ahead of a higher ranked player, while allowing for the subjective seeding of any unranked player the Executive Director deems strong enough to disrupt the draw.