At the end of each season, HYROX hold their own World Championships. This sees the best of the best, from each division, in each city, go up against each other.
At each HYROX event, there are a number of qualifying spaces up for grabs for the best performers in each division and age group. The number of spaces available is dependent upon the number of participants at the event. The more competitors in that division / age group, the more spaces available. Athletes are told how many spaces are available prior to the event.
After each HYROX event, qualifying participants will be sent an email offering them the opportunity to claim their place. Each qualifier needs to make his/her decision within 48 hours of receiving the invitational email. If qualifiers dont accept their places, the spot rolls down and is offered to the next fastest athlete. This means it’s possible to qualify outside of the automatic qualifying spots.
Mintra Tilly, the global race director who I interviewed, gives more details in the below video…
To give some indication of automatic qualifying times, below we’ve shown what it took to automatically qualify for the 2022 HYROX World Championships if you were an athlete at the London HYROX event in April 2022.
With the standard seemingly improving all the time and number of participants growing rapidly, achieving these times might not be enough to automatically qualify you in future seasons, but hopefully it gives some rough indication of where the standard was at at the end end of the 21/22 season. Of course, every event is different – with a different standard of athlete, a different number of competitors, and a different number of qualifying spots – so you can never truly know what you’d need to achieve until all the results are in. All you can do is your best!
Elite 15 Races
There is a separate category at the World Championships for “Elite” competitors. Places in this category are by invitation only and in the past have been based on the top 15 finishing times achieved at a previous event in the season, as opposed to finishing positions. However, you can no longer qualify for the Elite race at the World Championships based upon time alone. There are more details on the Elite 15 series in this article.
The 2023 HYROX World Championships were held in Manchester, UK, on 26th and 27th May 2023. More details on the event (along with footage, and commentary from Rox Lyfe’s, Greg Williams) can be found here. The 2024 HYROX World Championships will be held in Nice, France.
