Tucson, AZ, WPH Press, 2/2/25
The Race 4 Eight Red concluded on the first Sunday in February, with Lucho Cordova winning his eleventh Race 4 Eight title and Martina McMahon winning her second. Despite seeing his five-tournament, twenty-six match winning streak snapped, Martin Mulkerrins remains the dominant Race 4 Eight number one, while Lucho Cordova sits firmly in the number two spot.
With his third top three finish of the season, Ray Ure moved to a career-high number three ranking, while Leo Canales slid back to number four. David Fink stayed at number five, maintaining his thirteen-plus year streak inside the Race 4 Eight top eight, while Danos Cordova fell out of the Race 4 Eight top four for the first time since 2019.
Mikaila Esser became the second woman to be ranked number one on the WR48 (Casey) and first American to hold the top spot by finishing third in Montana. Martina McMahon became just the second woman to win multiple WR48 titles (Casey) in her first WR48 start in more than five years and climbed into the WR48 top 9.
See all of the updated 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 equal or greater to the prize money offered in Salt Lake City. 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.
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 equal or greater to the prize money offered in Salt Lake City. 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
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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.