HYROX Johannesburg

HYROX will go to Johannesburg for the first time on 1st March 2025. The event will be held in at the Johannesburg Expo Centre.

Tickets are not yet on sale, but you can pre-register for early bird tickets here: https://hyroxsa.com/pre-register/ 

Other Middle East and Africa events are held in Cape Town, Dubai, Sharjah and Qatar.

What is HYROX?

A HYROX competition is made up of a 1km run followed by 1 functional workout, repeated 8 times (meaning 8km run in total, plus 8 functional workouts). 

Check out our Beginners Guide to HYROX for all of the information you need for racing. 

The requirements / exercises for each HYROX event are as follows:

1km Run

1km Ski (on Concept2 SkiErg)

1km Run

50m Sled Push (102kg – 202kg*)

1km Run

50m Sled Pull (78kg – 153kg*)

1km Run

80m Burpee Broad Jump

1km Run

1km Row (on Concept2 Rower)

1km Run

200m Kettle Bells Farmers Carry (16kg – 32kg*)

1km Run

100m Sandbag Lunges (10kg – 30kg*)

1km Run

100 / 75* reps Wall Balls (4kg – 9kg*)

* weights (and reps for wall balls) vary by category (see the breakdown in the tables below).

The requirements are always exactly the same, in the same order, for each HYROX.