Joe Fishburn and Amanda Wah win the 2025 competition

Warning: this article contains spoilers

The 2025 gladiator winners were crowned after the final on Saturday evening on BBC One.

The owner of the Amanda Wah gymnasium and gymnastics coach Joe Fishburn were the winners – defeating the other candidates Aneila AFSAR, Professor of Manchester supply, and Mus Dumbuya, a youth in eastern London.

Wah, a Warrington gymnasium owner, beat his northwest colleague despite AFSAR having a step ahead of 1.5 seconds in the last challenge, the eliminator.

Fishburn, Gymnastics coach of Scarborough, experienced six seconds ahead of his finalist colleague and finished the course in 0.55 second record, according to the program.

The gymnast of the GB team, aged 24, paid tribute to her grandmother, Christine, who raised her after the death of her mother at the age of two.

“I have never had a paternal figure and she did everything for me. I hope you are proud,” he said.

Despite Afsar’s advantage, Wah managed to catch up and she devoted her minutes of victory to her late mother.

Addressing the co -host Bradley Walsh, Wah said: “It’s for you, mom. It was the best experience of my life – incredible.”

She said “everyone was exceptional, especially Aneila who was a great competitor”.

Wah added that it was mentally difficult for his rival “to come as the fastest finalist” after the withdrawal of Zavia Hill, a personal coach from Manchester, who had to leave before the final due to an injury.

AFSAR previously said that she had broken the barriers by being the first Muslim woman in the series.

Wah said that the 11 weeks of being discussed and pushed by “superhuman” gladiators were like being on “work experience”.

She called them “the biggest, the fiercest and the strongest, but also extremely favorable”.

She added: “They are professionals and they don’t want to hurt anyone. They care and it’s incredible.”

Fishburn said he would put the trophy on his “grandmother Christine’s Mantelpie” and called the experience “certainly the best thing I have ever done”.

He added: “We were in an incredible final, and I felt like I had already won in this process, but obviously it’s always pleasant to finish the whole and win the victory.

“Mus is an incredible opponent, a competitor, a friend, everything he does is so incredible and it was an honor to be in the final with him.”

Roddy Mackay, a competitor from 1993, was in Fishburn, and his family, while Wah is his girlfriend, two children, friends and family.

Gladiators was relaunched last year on the BBC, the Finlay Army officer Anderson and the personal coach Marie-Louise Nicholson crowned champions of 2024.

The program operated on ITV for eight years until 2000 before its ax, then was on the sky for a short term from 2008 to 2009.

This year, the Live Tour Gladiators will make its world debut in the British arenas.