The 2024/25 HYROX World Championships will be held at Navy Pier, Chicago. The 4 day event will be held on June 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th 2025, and a prize purse will be up for grabs for the sports highest honour.
The four-day affair will kick off on Thursday the 12th, beginning with the opening ceremony and the Elite 15 Individual races. The event is expected to draw over 10,000 athletes and fans to Chicago.
Upon announcing the event, Mo Fuerste, HYROX Co-Founder said “We are thrilled to bring the World Championships back to the U.S. and announce Chicago as the host city for the 2024/25 season. Chicago is our U.S. operational base and provides a world-class venue for a competition of this magnitude. We look forward to experiencing the hospitality of one of America’s greatest cities.”
This is the first time the World Championships has been on US soil since Las Vegas in 2022; this decision to return to the US reflects a rapid increase in popularity in the USA with over 80,000 people expected to race in the US this year, and 550,000 athletes globally.
For full details of the previous 2024 HYROX World Championships, held in Nice, France, check out this article.
World Championship Racing
The event is expected to draw over 10,000 athletes and fans to Chicago, and will will feature two major competitions split across the four days:
1. Elite 15 World Championships (Professional Racing)
2. Age Group World Championships
Both competitions require athletes to qualify during the regular HYROX season…
Age Group Athletes
At each regular HYROX event, there are World Championship qualifying spaces available for the fastest athletes in each division, by age group. Qualifying for the World Championships will be harder than ever with just 1% of athletes gaining a space (and Pro division being prioritised more than in previous years).
There will be limits by location; just because one event is twice as large as another, that does not mean there will be double the number of qualifying spots. Therefore, larger events may see less than 1% of athletes qualifying.
For further details on how to qualify for the HYROX World Championships in the age group divisions (i.e. the non Elite race) then check out this article.
Elite 15 – Individual
HYROX introduced a new season structure and qualification process for its Elite 15 Series in the 2024/2025 season with over $300,000 in prize money available throughout the season.
The Elite 15 series is the professional racing division in the sport, featuring the top 15 female and top 15 male athletes during any season competing in various Elite 15 races. This season’s Elite 15 Series will consist of the following key events:
- 4 Regional Major Races ($60,000 prize purse per event) – Qualification to the Majors is earned via time placings or previous performances in a championship event. The top 3 finishers at each Major qualify for the Elite 15 race at the HYROX World Championships. If these athletes have already qualified, the slot will roll down to the next 3 athletes in line, so that at every Major 3 athletes will qualify. The Winner of each Major will qualify for all remaining Majors
- 1 Last Chance Qualifier – Open field event at the end of the Major’s season schedule to fulfil the 3 spots still available for the Elite race in Chicago. This LCQ event will take place in Barcelona in April 2025.
- The HYROX World Championship – This event is the crown jewel of the season, where the best of the best will compete for titles, substantial prize money, and the prestigious title of HYROX World Champion.
To get a better idea of how strong and fast these Elite 15 athletes are, check out this article.
Elite 15 – Doubles
In Chicago, for the first time, the Elite 15 Doubles World Championship will take place.
There will be 5 events across the season where athletes can qualify for a spot in the Elite 15 Doubles World Championships, with the top 3 in each race qualifying. You can read more about the qualification process in this post.
Important points to note:
- There is no Mixed Doubles Category – qualification is ONLY through the Men’s Pro Doubles or Women’s Pro Doubles at the 5 specified events.
- There is a ‘same partner’ rule – you must race at the World Championships with the partner you qualified with.
- You can only qualify once – it is not possible for an athlete to qualify with one partner and then qualify again at another of the qualification races with a different partner.
Elite Mixed Relay Championships
The 2024 World Championship event saw the first ever Mixed Relay World Championships (invitational) on the Sunday evening. 20 mixed relay teams (each representing a different country) battled it out in what was a great race (with England taking the title)! Each country had a team captain (selected by HYROX) and it was the responsibility of the captain to choose their team.
Fans will be pleased to know the race will feature again at the 2025 World Championships – and once again, HYROX will choose an Elite athlete as captain for each country, and those captains are tasked with selecting their team.
World Championships History
Previous HYROX World Championships have been held at the following locations:
2019: Oberhausen, Germany
2021: Leipzig, Germany
2022: Las Vegas, USA
2023: Manchester, UK
2024: Nice, France
Schedule
The exact schedule for the weekend has yet to be revealed. Keep checking back at this page as we’ll add more details when we have them, as well as making sure you follow us on Instagram, and receive our weekly newsletter with the latest news, tips and interviews from the world of HYROX (join below).
