What Is a Good HYROX Time?

The Short Answer: It Depends on You

If you just finished a HYROX race and immediately Googled whether your time is good, you are not alone. It is one of the most common questions in the sport. But here is the honest truth: there is no single number that separates a "good" time from a bad one.

A meaningful answer depends on your division, gender, age group, experience level, and even the venue where you raced. By the end of this article, you will know exactly how to benchmark your own time — and where to find the data to do it.

Why There Is No Single 'Good' Time

HYROX is a standardized race format: eight 1km running segments alternating with eight workout stations, for a total of 8km of running plus SkiErg, Sled Push, Sled Pull, Burpee Broad Jumps, Rowing, Farmers Carry, Sandbag Lunges, and Wall Balls.

The format is the same everywhere. But "good" shifts dramatically based on a few key variables:

• Division — Pro athletes push heavier sleds and carry heavier loads than Open athletes. Comparing times across divisions is meaningless.
• Gender — Men's and Women's divisions use different prescribed weights.
• Age group — A 55-year-old racing in the 55–59 bracket faces the same course as a 25-year-old, but the competitive field looks very different.
• Experience — A first-time racer navigating transitions and pacing for the first time will not match someone on their tenth race.

A finish of 1 hour 15 minutes in Open Women is a completely different achievement from 1:15 in Pro Men. Without context, a raw time tells you almost nothing.

The Divisions Make a Huge Difference

If you are new to HYROX, understanding divisions is the first step to understanding your time.

Singles

You complete all eight runs and all eight stations yourself. Singles come in two tiers:

• Open — The standard entry point. Weights are lighter and accessible for most fitness levels.
• Pro — Significantly heavier loads across nearly every station. To give an example, Pro Men push a sled around 200kg versus roughly 150kg in Open, and Pro Women carry heavier farmers handles than their Open counterparts. Exact weights may change between seasons, but the gap between Pro and Open is always substantial.

Doubles

Two athletes work through the race together, splitting stations however they choose. Doubles also come in Open and Pro, with Men's, Women's, and Mixed categories.

Relay

Four-person teams split the race across team members. Relay is Open only — there is no Pro Relay.

Elite 15

An invitation-only division for the fastest athletes in the sport.

Because the physical demands differ so much between these divisions, a Doubles Open time and a Singles Pro time exist in entirely separate universes. Always compare within your own division.

Gender, Age Group, and Experience

Gender

Men's and Women's divisions use different prescribed weights at every weighted station. This means raw times between Men's and Women's fields are not directly comparable — each has its own competitive landscape.

Age Groups

HYROX breaks Singles Open into age groups from U24 (ages 16–24) through 85–89, in five-year bands. Singles Pro runs age groups from U24 through 55–59. Doubles and Relay use wider age bands based on the average age of the pair or team.

Your time means something different when measured against your age group peers rather than the entire field. A 1:30 finish might place you mid-pack in the 25–29 bracket but near the top of the 55–59 bracket.

Experience

First-time racers lose significant time to things that have nothing to do with fitness: figuring out transitions, misjudging pacing on the sled, going out too fast on the first two runs. Repeat racers know the course, know their body, and race smarter. If this was your first HYROX, your next one will almost certainly be faster — even without getting fitter.

Course Conditions Matter Too

HYROX prescribes the same format and weights at every event worldwide. But venues are not identical. The biggest variable is sled friction: the surface material under the sled changes how hard the Sled Push and Sled Pull feel. Some venues are notoriously slower than others.

Venue layout and climate conditions can also play a role. A time set at one event is not perfectly comparable to a time set at another, which is why tools like the Speed Index on Hyranking exist — they adjust for event-specific conditions to make cross-race comparisons fairer.

How to Actually Benchmark Your Time

Forget about chasing a single magic number. Here is how to evaluate your performance in a way that actually means something.

1. Compare Within Your Division and Gender

Start by looking at results from your specific division (Open, Pro, Doubles, or Relay) and gender category. Anything else is noise.

2. Look at Your Age Group

Narrow further to your age group. This gives you the most honest picture of where you stand among peers with similar physiological baselines.

3. Use Percentile Rankings, Not Averages

Knowing the average time is a starting point, but knowing where you fall in the percentile distribution tells you far more. Finishing in the top 30% of your age group and division is a different story than simply being "faster than average."

On Hyranking, you can explore division-specific rankings to see exactly where you land. You can also search for your own results and compare your performance across different races to track your progress.

4. Factor In Event Context

Was this a World Championship qualifier with a stacked field, or a smaller regional event? A mid-pack finish in a championship-level field might be more impressive than a podium at a smaller race. Browse event results on Hyranking to see how your time stacks up against the specific field you raced in.

5. Estimate What You Could Do

Curious how a change in one station would affect your total? The race simulator lets you adjust individual splits and see how your overall time would change — useful for setting realistic targets before your next race.

6. Compare Against Yourself

If you have raced more than once, your own progression is the most useful benchmark. Dropping five minutes between your first and second race is meaningful, concrete improvement. Your athlete profile tracks your full race history and personal bests. The head-to-head tool lets you compare against other athletes, and race compare helps you see how your times have shifted across events.

What the Ranges Look Like

With all of those caveats in place, it helps to have some rough numbers to anchor your expectations. The following averages are based on aggregated race data from across hundreds of events tracked on Hyranking. They are useful context, not official HYROX publications.

• Open Men — Average finish around 1:31
• Open Women — Average finish around 1:38
• Pro Men — Average finish around 1:24
• Pro Women — Average finish around 1:30

At the elite end, the fastest men have finished in under 53 minutes and the fastest women in under 56 minutes.

A few things to keep in mind when reading these numbers: averages from aggregated datasets tend to skew faster because repeat racers — who are faster and more experienced — appear more often in the data. The true median for all participants, including first-timers, is likely slower than these figures suggest.

If you finished your first Open race anywhere near these averages, you performed well. If you finished well above them, you still completed one of the most demanding fitness races in the world — and now you have a baseline to improve from.

The Bottom Line

A "good" HYROX time is not a fixed number. It is your time, understood in context: your division, your gender, your age group, your experience, and the event you raced at. The question is not whether you hit some arbitrary cutoff. The question is where you stand in the field that matters to you — and what you want to do next.

Find your results, explore the rankings, and start building your own definition of good. Hyranking's tools are built for exactly that.

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