The first HYROX London event of the 2023/24 HYROX season took place on 25 / 26th of November 2023 at the London Excel. It was the biggest HYROX event ever at the time, with 20,000 people attending and 32 hours of racing. From a personal perspective, I have to say it was the best run HYROX event I’d been too. The track was very intelligently laid out, with nice wide running lanes, a well run track crossing, well positioned barriers in the course to help prevent collisions, a fantastic “thunderdome” around the wall ball area and much more. Hats off to the HYROX team, they nailed it.
In terms of the athletes and performances, Olympic Great Eve Muirhead was racing in the Women’s Open (check out our recent podcast with her here). Meanwhile, over in the Men’s Doubles, Men’s World Champion and World Record holder Hunter McIntyre teamed up with George Heaton, and Jake Dearden competed in an unbelievable 11 HYROX races across the 2 days (8 on the Saturday, starting with a 56 Mins Men’s Doubles!) – all in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.
Read on for all the news from an amazing event…
London 2023 Course Layout
London World Championships Qualifying Places
London Start Times
Women’s Pro
There were several impressive perfoformances in the Women’s Pro division which was ultimately won by Anabel Obank in a time of 01:05:17.
Second was Jade Skillen in 01:06:01, closely followed by Katrin Hulme in 01:06:33.
At the time of writing, these results place Anabel at 15th and Jade at 20th in the Elite 15 Major Qualification Ranking. The London weekend is not counted for the Stockholm Major, but both will be hoping for a place in the Elite race in Vienna in February 2024.
Men’s Pro
The Men’s Pro race was won by Harry Thompson in 00:58:30. This moves Harry up to 17th in the Major Qualification Ranking at the time of writing, so he will be hoping for an Elite 15 roll down spot for Vienna. I interviewed Harry on the Rox Lyfe podcast – you can listen to that wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on our YouTube channel.
Second was John Carlisle in 01:00:13.
Third place was taken by Liam McCroary in 01:02:03.
Men’s Open
The Men’s Open was won by Jake Williamson in an incredible time of 00:56:44, which gives him the 25-29 Age Group World Record. You can check out out interview with Jake here (or wherever you listen to your podcasts).
Second was Sam Craig in 00:58:06.
Third place was taken by Charlie Botterill in a time of 00:59:07.
Women’s Open
The Women’s Open was won by Gabriella Moriarty in a time of 01:03:13.
Second was Charlotte Burnett in 01:04:56.
Third place was taken by Jodie Digby in 01:05:07, extremely closely followed by Olympian Eve Muirhead in 01:05:11.
Doubles
The Men’s Doubles was won by Tony Revell and Ciaran Parkinson in a time of 00:51:36.
A special mention must go to Daniel Sevilla and Simon Passmore (I interviewed him here) who broke the Men’s 50-59 Age Group World Record in an incredible 00:55:28. Also to Francesca Lasman (in her 1st HYROX!) and Sarah Watts who broke the Women’s 60-69 Age Group World Record in 01:24:42.
The Mixed Doubles was won by Tom Hogan and Dena Hogan in a time of 00:56:26.
Here are some photos of the event…
The previous HYROX London event was held in April / May 2023 at London Olympia, as will the next HYROX London event on 3-5th May 2024.
