HYROX at the top of the sport continues to get faster and faster. Every season the standard rises, and the difference between winning and fifth can be a handful of seconds. Below we look at the five quickest women ever in the Pro division…
Joanna Wietrzyk
The Australian Joanna Wietrzyk only raced her first HYROX in Melbourne in June 2024, yet less than 2 years later set the current world record in the Pro division with a time of 56:03 (set in the third Major of the 25/26 season in Phoenix).
She’s unbeaten outside the Elite 15 so far and immediately made an impact at the top level with a podium in Amsterdam on her Elite 15 debut following that up with a win in Hong Kong.
Coached by James Kelly, Joanna comes from a tennis and netball background and arrived in HYROX with running as her clear strength. But she’s improved her station work rapidly too and now looks like one of the most complete athletes in the field.
Lauren Weeks
Lauren Weeks is one of the most experienced, highly decorated athletes in the women’s field. She holds the second fastest time ever with her PB of 56:23, set in Glasgow in March 2025, as part of a fantastic Major race in which she was pushed all the way by Joanna Wietrzyk. At the time this was a world record which stood for 10 months.
Lauren is a multi-time World Champion, winning in 2021 and 2023, plus the Elite 12 race in 2020. She’s also the 2025 Women’s Elite Doubles World Champion, with Lauren Griffith.
Lauren currently holds the Women’s Open world record (55:38, Washington DC 2025) and Pro Doubles world record with Vivian Tafuto (53:11, Phoenix 2025)
Lauren coaches along with husband Anthony Peressini at “The Hybrid Engine”, and together they work with several Elite 15 athletes. They live in Las Vegas with their daughter, Lily – with whom she was 7 months pregnant when she famously competed in the 2022 World Championships – finishing an incredible 9th out of 15.
Read more on this incredible athlete and our chats with her on the Rox Lyfe podcast here: https://roxlyfe.com/lauren-weeks-profile/
Megan Jacoby
The 2024 HYROX World Champion, Megan Jacoby, has a personal best time of 58:09 – made more impressive by the fact it was set upon her return from injury in her first singles race in almost a year. She is a mum to one daughter and broke the world record on just her second race in the sport.
The athlete who was a D1 runner in college, won her first and only ever power lifting meet…and claims “I could beat anyone in an ice cream eating contest!”
In addition to her athletic (and ice cream eating) prowess, she also showed off her punditry skills in commentary on the HYROX livestream in Las Vegas and Chicago (along with myself and Til Shenk), and she is part of the RMR coaching team and podcast (along with Rich Ryan and Ryan Kent).
Vivian Tafuto
Vivian comes from a swimming background and once competed at the US Olympic swimming trials. Her personal best time of 58:35 was set in Hamburg during the first Major of the 25/26 season, where she finished in 2nd position (behind Joanna Wietrzyk).
Vivian holds the Women’s Pro Doubles world record alongside Lauren Weeks (and is coached by Lauren’s husband, Anthony Peressini). She was also part of the USA relay team at the 2025 World Championships who were ultimately disqualified for Hunter McIntyres shoulder barge on Jeremy McConnell.
Vivian holds a full-time job as an Actuary.
Linda Meier
Linda is the 2025 World Champion – having won the race in Chicago in her personal best time of 58:56. Despite her success she is not a full-time athlete (working as an IT consultant) and has one of the lowest training volumes in the Elite field. She is coached by former Rox Lyfe podcast guest Bjoern Schinke and first competed in HYROX back in its early days in 2019. She finished 5th in the world in 2024, 11th in 2023, 2nd in 2022, and 6th in 2021.
Linda’s mum (Anette Meier-Ullmann) is also a HYROX athlete who finished 2nd in her age group (60-64) at the 2024 World Championships and 3rd at the 2025 World Championships.
These five women have pushed the sport into the sub-59 era, and with the depth in the Elite field increasing every season, it may not be long before sub 56 becomes the next big barrier.
