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HYROX
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2023-2024 Elite 15
SportHYROX
FoundedNovember 2017
First season2019
Owner(s)Upsolut Sports
DirectorMintra Tilly
Competitors15 men, 15 women
Venue(s) Palais des Congrès Acropolis, Nice, France
Most recent
champion(s)

(2023-2024)
Most titles
QualificationHYROX Pro Event time, HYROX Major, HYROX Elite 15
Sponsor(s) Redbull (2020–current)
Puma (2019–current)
Official website HYROX

HYROX is a fitness competition that combines 8km of running and eight functional workout stations. [1] It is an indoor hybrid fitness racing event combining running with functional exercise stations. It bills itself as "The World Series of Fitness Racing" and "A sport for Everybody". [2] [3]

A HYROX competition is made up of a one kilometer run followed by a functional exercise station that is repeated eight times for the eight different workout stations. [4] [5] Average finishing times for the elite women's field range from 58 minutes to 65 minutes, while the elite men's field times range from 53 minutes to 59 minutes. The general populace finish the race in the Pro division between 60 minutes to 120 minutes.[ citation needed]

HYROX was launched by Christian Toetzke (CEO of Upsolut Sports GmbH) and Moritz Furste. [4] [5]  The first HYROX event was held in Hamburg, Germany in April 2018. [5] The word "HYROX" is a portmanteau of the words "Hybrid" and "Rockstar". [5] [5]

History

HYROX was founded by Olympic hockey champion Moritz Fürste and Christian Toetzke, and first introduced in Hamburg, Germany in 2017. The first HYROX event had 650 participants. [6] According to Fürste, the original brief was “to create an event that is a 200,000-euro (about $214,000) production that looks like a 2,000,000-euro ($2,144,000) production”. [7]

The competition has since expanded worldwide, with 24,000 people taking part in HYROX events in London alone in 2023. [8] [6] In total, 65 races were held around the world in 2023, with 175,000 competitors taking part. [9]

HYROX affiliates

A network of Hyrox-affiliated gyms has been established, [10] and gyms pay a yearly affiliation fee to become a "HYROX training center". [11] There are around 2,500 HYROX-affiliated gyms in 2024. [12]

Sponsorship and prize money

2021 HYROX World Championships start line in Leipzig, Germany.

By Season 3 of HYROX (2020–2021) it had already attracted investments from Infront Sports & Media Group and sponsorships with global brands, Redbull and Puma. [13] Prize money for the elite event has grown year over year. Other Major events have received prize payouts in addition to the World Championships. For the 2023–24 HYROX World Championship, the total prize purse was $150,000 split between the Male and female elite fields, with the winner receiving $25,000, [14] [15]

In 2024, HYROX announced a Relay event with representatives from 20 different countries as captains, with the freedom to pick their teams from any athlete of that country. At the World Championships in Nice, France the relay will take place as the final event with the winning team taking home $20,000 in prize money ($5,000 per athlete).[ citation needed]

Format

HYROX combines running with functional exercise stations, where participants run 1 kilometer, followed by 1 functional exercise station, repeated eight times. Each race is hosted indoors in exhibition halls or convention centers. [16] Occasional events have been hosted outdoors, including Miami 2023.

This race format remains consistent across the globe, enabling global leaderboards & a cumulative World Championships at the end of each race season. [16] [17]

The functional exercise stations are consistent at every event where participants will complete the following: [16]

1 kilometer of running into 1 kilometer of Ski Erg on a Concept 2 machine.

1 kilometer of running into 50 meters of sled push, using Centr brand equipment. [18]

1 kilometer of running into 50 meters of sled pull, using Centr brand equipment.

1 kilometer of running into 80 meters of burpee broad jump.

1 kilometer of running into 1 kilometer of rowing on a Concept 2 rowing erg machine.

1 kilometer of running into 200 meters of kettlebell farmer carry, using Centr brand equipment.

1 kilometer of running into 100 meters of sandbag walking lunge, using Centr brand equipment.

1 kilometer of running into 100 or 75 reps of wall ball, using Centr brand equipment.

All participants complete the running and stations. Station weights and repetitions can differ based on the division. [16]

HYROX competitions

Many HYROX competitions are held around the world every year, and no qualification is required for athletes to these competitions. [19] Competitors may compete as a single, or in doubles as a two-person team, or in team relay. There are 4 divisions: women, women pro, men, men pro. For doubles, there are doubles women, doubles men and doubles mixed. [20]

Some of the Larger weekend events are extended to two or three day affairs. The Largest single day event took place in Birmingham, UK with 5,032 total finishers. The only event with more participants was the two day event in London in 2022 that had 6,270 participants. [21]

A number of important championships are held every year, including the European Championships and the North America Championships, but the most important one is the HYROX World Championships. [22]

World Championships

Elite Qualification System

3x World Champion, Lauren Weeks, at the wall balls station at HYROX EU Championships 2023

Competitors can qualify for the World Championships by becoming one of the Elite 15 in Individual Pro races. Those with the best time in the Pro division in a global leaderboard receive an invitation to the Elite race series such as the European Championships and the North America Championships. The podium finishers in these competitions qualify for the elite races in the World Championship. [22]

The first HYROX World Championships was held in Oberhausen, Germany, in 2019, with over 600 participants. [23] For the 2019, season 1, the World Championships Elite race was determined solely by the fastest times of the season up to that point.

The season 2 races in 2020 were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The official World Championships for that season had a condensed field that included the top 5 times of each gender plus one wild card invite of each gender. The wild card invites were from sport adjacent athletes and included Samantha Briggs (2013 CrossFit Games Champion) and Adam Klink (first male to squat 500-lbs and run a sub-5 minute mile in the same day).

For seasons 3, 4, and 5 (2021–2023), athletes qualified by placing top 3 at either the US Championships or the European Championships. The remaining slots were filled in by the top times of the season.

In season 6 (2023–2024), in order to qualify for the world championships, athletes needed to place top 3 in one of four "Major Championships" where roll down slots would happen for athletes already qualified but never past 5th place. All remaining spots are filled in by two "Last Chance Qualifier" events, where the first one chronologically will have less available spots than the later one. Qualification for the four major events is based on automatic qualifiers from previous seasons (US Champion, European Champion, Top 3 at World Championships) and the remaining spots are filled in based on time from Pro Division events. [24] [25]

Champions by year

The World Champions of each season are listed here: [26] [27]

WORLD CHAMPIONS
Season Year Location Female Champion Female Winning Time (h:mm:ss) Male Champion Male Winning time (h:mm:ss)
1 2018-2019 Oberhausen, Germany GermanyImke Salander 1:08:08 (WR) GermanyLukas Storath 0:59:07
2 2019-2020* Hamburg, Germany United StatesLauren Weeks 1:09:47 United StatesHunter McIntyre 1:00:04
3 2021 Leipzig, Germany United StatesLauren Weeks (x2) 1:03:43 (WR) GermanyTobias Lautwein 1:00:00
4 2021-2022 Las Vegas, USA United StatesKris Rugloski 1:07:21 United StatesHunter McIntyre (x2) 0:58:05
5 2022-2023 Manchester, UK United StatesLauren Weeks (x3) 0:59:51 United StatesHunter McIntyre (x3) 0:56:40
6 2023-2024 Nice, France United StatesMegan Jacoby 0:59:59 Austria Alexander Roncevic 0:56:21
  • 2020 was run on Assault Fitness AirRunners due to COVID-19 restrictions
Elite 12 - Hyrox World Championships 2020 Podium. Athletes left to right: Viola Oberlander, Lukas Storath, Lauren Weeks, Hunter McIntyre, Tobias Lautwein, Elisabeth Sarah Kholti, Tim Schroder, Samantha Briggs, Adam Klink, Marcus Frison
U.S. and North American Championships
Season Year Location Female Champion Female Winning Time (h:mm:ss) Male Champion Male Winning Time (h:mm:ss)
3 2021 Chicago, IL, USA United StatesLauren Weeks 1:05:18 (WR) United StatesHunter McIntyre 1:01:01
4 2022 Chicago, IL, USA United StatesLauren Weeks 1:07:03 United States Ryan Kent 0:57:45
5 2023 Chicago, IL, USA SwedenMikaela Norman 1:02:04 United States David Magida 0:59:11
6 2024 Washington DC, USA United StatesLauren Weeks 1:01:20 United States Dylan Scott 0:56:37

The US and North American Championships did not officially start until Season 3. The Male winner of the US/North American Championships has never went on to win the World Championships title in the same year.

European Championships
Season Year Location Female Champion Female Winning Time (h:mm:ss) Male Champion Male Winning Time (h:mm:ss)
3 2021 Hamburg, Germany Germany Viola Oberlander 1:07:58 GermanyTobias Lautwein 0:59:29
4 2022 Maastricht, Netherlands SwitzerlandMirjam Von Rohr 1:04:20 GermanyTobias Lautwein 0:56:52
5 2023 Maastricht, Netherlands United StatesLauren Weeks 1:01:12 Austria Alexander Roncevic 0:57:26
6 2024 Vienna, Austria United StatesLauren Weeks 0:58:03 (WR) Austria Alexander Roncevic 0:54:28

The European Championships did not officially start until Season 3.

World Records

Prior to the start of the 2022/2023 season, the sled weights were adjusted to include the weight of the sled in an attempt to more readily standardize the courses throughout the world. This change effectively reduced the men's and women's push and pull sleds by about 10kg each, which is reflected in the slew of record breaking times during that season.

Female World Records [28]
FEMALE WORLD RECORDS (PRO/ELITE DIVISION)
Season Year Female WR holder WR time Event Location Date Days Record Stood (Total for athlete)
1 2019 GermanyImke Salander 1:08:08 Oberhausen, Germany May 2019 200 days (200 days)
2 2019 GermanyElisabeth Sarah Kholti 1:05:33 Essen, Germany November 16, 2019 587 days (587 days)
3 2021 United StatesLauren Weeks 1:05:18 Chicago, USA June 26, 2021 76 days (76 days)
3 2021 United StatesLauren Weeks 1:03:43 Leipzig, Germany September 10, 2021 365 days (443 days)
5 2022 GermanyLinda Meier 1:03:29 Basel, Germany September 11, 2022 41 days (41 days)
5 2022 GermanyLinda Meier 1:02:23 Amsterdam, Netherlands October 22, 2022 14 days (54 days)
5 2022 United States Megan Jacoby 1:01:56 Chicago, USA November 5, 2022 21 days (21 days)
5 2022 SwedenMikaela Norman 1:00:45 Hamburg, Germany November 26, 2022 147 days (147 days)
5 2023 United States Megan Jacoby 0:58:58 Anaheim, USA April 22, 2023 229 days (250 days)
6 2023 United States Megan Jacoby 0:58:52 Stockholm, Sweden December 7, 2023 64 days (314 days)
6 2024 United StatesLauren Weeks 0:58:03 Vienna, Austria February 9, 2024 Current WR
Male World Records [29]
MALE WORLD RECORDS (PRO/ELITE DIVISON)
Season Year Male WR holder WR time Event Location Date Days Record Stood (Total for athlete)
1 2018 GermanyLukas Storath 59:07 Stuttgart, Germany November 2018 451 days (451 days)
2 2020 United StatesHunter McIntyre 57:34 Chicago, USA January 25, 2020 816 days (816 days)
4 2022 GermanyTobias Lautwein 56:52 Maastricht, Netherlands March 26, 2022 14 days (14 days)
4 2022 United StatesHunter McIntyre 55:09 Dallas, USA April 9, 2022 343 days (1,159 days)
5 2023 United StatesHunter McIntyre 54:07 Barcelona, Spain March 18, 2023 264 days (1,423 days)
6 2023 United StatesHunter McIntyre 53:22 Stockholm, Sweden December 7, 2023 Current WR

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