FITNESS : HYROX 27 THE WORLD SERIES OF FITNESS RACING she entered the final wall ball station 30 seconds ahead of her fellow American athlete Megan Jacoby and held the lead to win. Megan Jacoby finished in 1.00.23, she fought hard in the midsection of the race coming off the rower at the same time as Weeks but was unable to match her in the second half of the race falling just shy of becoming the first woman to break the 60 min barrier for a second time. Belle McFarlane rounded out the podium making an American clean sweep, she finished in 01.02.11 with a strong second-half race notching a win in the sandbag lunges (3.23) and a 3rd in the Wall Balls. Christian Toetzke, Founder of HYROX, comments “This evening we saw 2 of the best athletes to ever compete in our sport show their pedigree, both ran impressive races pushing the pace early and demonstrating an awareness of both their fitness and the ability to manage themselves to win in highly competitive fields. Both times recorded would have broken World Records last year and it’s a huge testament to the speed at which the sport is progressing that these athletes and all of the other Elites have broken time barriers.” HYROX is the global fitness race for everybody, founded in 2017 by mass participation endurance event veteran Christian Toetzke and x2 Olympic champion and one of the world’s greatest ever Hockey players, Moritz Fürste. A HYROX race is the same all around the world, starting with a 1km run, followed by 1 functional movement, repeated 8 times*. The sport is intended to appeal to everyone, no matter what level or experience of fitness. With a hugely expanded schedule for the 23/24 season, including expansion into Dubai, Australia, Singapore, Poland, Italy and over 65 currently planned races, HYROX anticipates next year’s World Championships to be even more impressive. For more information and for HYROX season 23/24 races, visit www.hyrox.com Photo credit: HYROX
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