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Dani Elle Speegle (born January 10, 1994) is an American six-time CrossFit Games athlete and former competitive gymnast, who placed 13th overall in the 2020 Games. She is generally considered as one of the World’s most popular elite CrossFit athletes. She also won the second season of competition show The Titan Games. In June 2025, Speegle was named as one of the Gladiators in the 2026 series American Gladiators, airing on Prime Video.
Dani Elle Speegle spent her childhood in Houston, Texas, before moving to Colorado. She went to Conifer High School in Conifer, Colorado. Speegle had been a competitive gymnast for 10 years before she was forced to quit due to a back injury, and she tried other sports after she recovered.
She became involved in a number of sports, including volleyball, track, diving and rowing, and she earned five varsity letters in high school. After finishing high school, she went on to study marine biology at the Florida Institute of Technology where she was on the rowing team in her freshman year. In her senior year in college in 2015, she was introduced to CrossFit.
Speegle started taking part in CrossFit Open in 2016…
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