Men’s Race
On the men’s side, we saw Rich Ryan fall behind early on. He was never able to make it back up to the front of the pack, despite finishing his last few stations really well. Rich finished in 9th place with a 1:01:34. He’s on the outside looking in for a qualifying spot to HYROX Chicago, one of HYROX’s 4 major races in the 2023/24 season. He’ll need 7 athletes to turn down their invite for him to get a rolldown spot.
Austin Azar, who recently completed HYROX Warsaw in Poland, and has been staying over in Europe since that race, set a new PR at 1:01:07. He took 90 seconds off his previous best HYROX time, and ran almost 5 minutes faster than his time in Warsaw.
At the front of the pack, Eugenio Bianchi from Italy led for more than half the race. Jon Wynn from Australia & Pelayo Fernandez from Spain kept closing the gap, and the three were all within 10 seconds of each other at the lunges. Eugenio got their first, followed by Pelayo and then Wynn.
Wynn quickly passed Pelayo, but Eugenio held his ground, arriving to the wall balls in first. When Eugenio hit the 80 rep mark, he started to fall apart, and broke several times. This opened the door for Wynn, who surpassed him in the final stretch to take the win by 24 seconds.
Rubén Patiño Vieites snuck in there with a strong finish to take 3rd, and Pelayo dropped to 4th.
