HYROX will go to Sharjah in the UAE for the first time on 12th April 2025. The event will be held at the Expo Centre Sharjah.
Tickets are on sale here.
Other Middle East and Africa events are held in Johannesburg, Dubai, Cape Town 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
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.
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