The latest HYROX Barcelona event was held on 25th, 26th and 27th April 2025.
The event was announced as the venue for the Elite 15 Last Chance Qualifier for the 2024/25 season, which was held on the Saturday evening (Men’s Pro and Women’s Pro). More information on the Elite races can be found here. The races were filmed and commentated on by Rox Lyfe’s Greg Williams, and shown on YouTube – you can find the videos below.
Read on for the main results of the weekend…
Women’s Pro
There was an incredible and hugely talented line-up for the Women’s LCQ – including former World Champion Kris Rugloski; Elite 15 athletes such as Zara Piergianni, Jade Skillen, Camilla Massa, Viola Oberlander and Maria Fecik; as well as women who have raced some incredible times so far this season such as Lena Putters, Margot Vandenlindenloof, Sinéad Bent, Tanja Stroschneider and many many more.
This set the scene for an incredibly competitive race and an extremely open field where anyone could have won!
Young Dutch athlete Emilie Dahmen took the lead at the sled pull and dominated the field, ultimately taking the win by 63 seconds, in only her 3rd Pro race – an incredible achievement. British athlete (and former Women’s Open World Record holder) Sinéad Bent took 2nd place (again, in only her 3rd Pro race) at the sled pull and largely held on to that position, despite fierce competition from triathlete Tanja Stroschnedier and Camilla Massa.
American athlete Kris Rugloski moves up into 3rd place at the Farmer’s carry and finished 3rd in the first wave, holding off Tanja, Margot and Gabriella Moriarty at the wall balls, but was pushed down into 4th by Swiss endurance athlete Melanie Maurer, who ran in a later wave (in only her 4th HYROXrace), who took the 3rd qualifying spot by just 4 seconds!
The final results were:
1. Emilie Dahmen – 01:01:10
2. Sin̩ad Bent Р01:02:13
3. Melanie Maurer – 01:03:20
All 3 women qualify for the Elite 15 race at the World Championships in Chicago in June.
Men’s Pro
An incredibly stacked Men’s Pro field included Elite 15 athletes such as Sean Noble, Jon Wynn, Lukas Storath, Joffrey Voisin and Jannik Czapla. It also included numerous other men who have put in superb times this season such as Tom Rodgers, Hugo Hugemarq, Sebastian Ivfersen, Afan Humphries, Harry Thompson, Gabe Heck, Aitor Lizarazu Hormilla and so many more…it really was anyone’s race!
The race was wide open in the first few stations and runs, with a very interchangeable top 10. Hidde Weersma from the Netherlands moved into 1st pace on the BBJs with Spain’s Emilio Aguayo in 2nd, with Tom Rodgers and Jon Wynn starting to move up through the field behind them. Tom came into the row in 3rd place, but was in 1st from the sandbag lunges onwards, with Hidde and Emilio changing places.
Tom came into the wall balls in 1st place and held on to take the win. Emilio came in to the wall balls in 2nd place but had nothing left – lots of no-reps and exhaustion meant he finished in 13th place overall. Hidde took 2nd place, and Jon Wynn showed his experience and dug deep to take 3rd place. There was an agonising wait to see if anyone would go faster in the later waves, but only Liam McCroary came close, finishing in 6th place.
The final results were:
1. Tom Rodgers – 00:56:05
2. Hidde Weersma – 00:56:33
3. Jon Wynn – 00:57:14
All 3 men qualify for the Elite 15 race at the World Championships in Chicago in June.
Pro Doubles
The Men’s Pro Doubles was won by Noelia Pérez Tur and Anna Orozco Torres in a time of 01:02:09.
The Women’s Pro Doubles was won by Danny Johnson and Robert Livesey in a time of 00:55:49.
All other results can be found on the HYROX website.
Here are some photos of the event…
