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Final up to date on December sixth, 2024
The second Main of the 2024/2025 HYROX season wrapped up final month in Hong Kong, China, and didn’t disappoint as up-and-comers battled it out towards seasoned veterans for six extra spots on the 2025 HYROX World Championships.
Remind me: For the 2024/25 HYROX Elite 15 season, athletes can qualify for the World Championships at 4 totally different Main races or a last-chance qualifier in Barcelona, Spain.
- Every Main hosts a female and male Elite 15 race, the place the highest three finishers robotically qualify for the Majors. There are two extra Majors for the season: Las Vegas, NV, and Glasgow, Scotland.
Girls’s Elite 15
On the ladies’s aspect, it was a battle between seasoned athlete Lauren Weeks and Australian newcomer Joanna Wietrzyk, who had simply made her debut on the Elite 15 race in October on the Amsterdam, Netherlands Main race.
Weeks was neck and neck with fellow U.S. athlete Lauren Griffith, however Wietrzyk pulled forward through the sled push station.
Wietrzyk continued to increase her lead and completed sub-60 minutes, taking dwelling first place. Weeks completed in second, and Kate Davey took third, securing her spot on the World Championships.
- As a consequence of this season’s roll-down rule, the third-, fourth-, and fifth-place finishers certified for the World Championship.
- Davey took third, Ida Mathilde Steensgaard took fourth, and Lauren Griffith took fifth.
Wietrzyk instructed Pink Bull, a HYROX sponsor, that she didn’t count on to complete on high within the stacked area of athletes.
- “Throughout the race, I at all times had that mentality that I knew I may do it. I simply needed to belief that my coaching block from Amsterdam to right here would repay,” she instructed Pink Bull throughout a post-race interview.
Males’s Elite 15
The race for the highest spots on the boys’s aspect was equally as thrilling. The reigning world champion, Alexander Roncevic, was among the many ranks, alongside extremely aggressive rivals like Tim Wenisch and James Kelly.
- Kelly set the tempo with an extremely quick 1km time of three:36 to begin the race, however his opponents didn’t let up and made him work all through the primary half of the race.
Kelly began to achieve and by the ultimate station, he had constructed a big lead on his competitors and took dwelling first place.
- Of the rostrum finishers, Kelly was the one one to qualify for the World Championships; due to this fact, second, third, and fourth place all certified out of the Hong Kong Main.
Wenisch took second, Graham Halliday took third, and Pelayo Menendez Fernandez took fourth — all of them are actually heading to the World Championship ultimate.
- “It’s been superb the final six months, particularly being part of the Aussie HYROX neighborhood. It’s simply getting began Down Below, and there are much more athletes to come back on this elite area as nicely. It’s actually thrilling,” Kelly instructed Pink Bull throughout a post-race interview.
One final thing: The next Major will be in Las Vegas, NV, in early February. The occasion is presently bought out and waitlist solely.
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