Athlete · Open Men · 35-39 ·

RSA

Chris van der Merwe

3 HYROX results (1 solo, 2 in a team) over 2 seasons. Personal bests: Open Men 1:53:26 (Cape Town Apr 2026) · Doubles Mixed 1:44:28 (Cape Town Apr 2026).

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1:53:26 Open Men time · Cape Town Apr 2026 also raced Doubles Mixed: each has its own best below

542nd of 717 Open Men place · Cape Town Apr 2026 among Open Men finishers there

2:03:02 latest race · Cape Town Aug 2026 18:34 slower than the best Doubles Mixed time Doubles Mixed with Rozanne Muller

Sled push strongest segment · Cape Town Apr 2026 faster than 52% of the Open Men field on it

1 · Tap any raceEach row below opens that race's report: every split against the field, where the time went, where it can come back.

2 · Read the station profileFurther down: the shape of the race, the strongest and weakest segments, and the race as one bar against the typical finisher.

3 · Turn it into trainingEvery weak station links to its workouts on RoxHype; the app writes the eight weeks from these exact splits.

Personal bests

One best per race type

solo, doubles and relay times are different races, so each has its own best

Open Men1:53:26Cape Town Apr 2026 · 1 race Doubles Mixed1:44:28Cape Town Apr 2026 · 2 races · with Kirstin van der Merwe

Doubles Mixed: finish time, race by race

oldest to newest · a line going down means getting faster

1:45:001:50:001:55:002:00:00 best 1:44:28

Each dot is one Doubles Mixed race. Not enough complete, clean Doubles Mixed races yet to measure the change. Team times are shared with a partner, so they move with who you race with.

Every race

3 results

tap a race for its full report

Race	Division	Time	Place	Runs	Stations	Roxzone
Cape Town Aug 2026 14 Aug 2026team: Rozanne Muller, Chris Van Der Merwewhat the whole field did →	Doubles Mixed · team 16-24	2:03:02	932nd of 987	1:13:20	39:42	10:05	splits SkiErg4:20Sled push3:01Sled pull6:40Burpee broad jump4:18Row5:47Farmers carry2:12Sandbag lunges5:03Wall balls8:21Run 14:47Run 29:59Run 310:24Run 410:26Run 510:45Run 65:32Run 79:58Run 811:33Full report for this race →
Cape Town Apr 2026 5 Apr 2026team: Chris van der Merwe, Kirstin van der Merwewhat the whole field did →	Doubles Mixed · team 35-39	1:44:28	543rd of 703	59:49	37:59	6:45	splits SkiErg4:03Sled push2:41Sled pull6:00Burpee broad jump5:18Row5:05Farmers carry2:00Sandbag lunges4:54Wall balls7:58Run 13:35Run 25:51Run 36:28Run 46:29Run 57:32Run 66:51Run 78:50Run 814:17Full report for this race →
Cape Town Apr 2026 5 Apr 2026what the whole field did →	Open Men · 35-39	1:53:26	542nd of 717	55:07	50:09	8:15	splits SkiErg4:34Sled push3:09Sled pull5:22Burpee broad jump9:45Row5:41Farmers carry2:25Sandbag lunges9:17Wall balls9:56Run 14:24Run 26:19Run 36:57Run 46:51Run 57:16Run 66:48Run 76:59Run 89:38Full report for this race →

Place is the position among timed finishers in the same race, division and gender; a doubles place is the team's. Runs is the organiser's official run total (it can differ from the eight laps added up by a few seconds), stations the eight stations added up, and roxzone the time moving between them. The age group is the one entered for that race; for a team it is the team’s age group. How the numbers are made.

Station profile · best Open Men race

Cape Town Apr 2026, against 717 Open Men

Full race report →

Shape of the race

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns

Chrisedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

Each spoke is one segment (roxzone is the time moving between stations). The further out, the bigger the share of the field beaten on it. A round shape is an even race; a dent is a weak station.

How you ranked on each segment

SkiErg faster than 47%

Sled push faster than 52%

Sled pull faster than 51%

Burpee broad jump faster than 13%

Row faster than 15%

Farmers carry faster than 42%

Sandbag lunges faster than 8%

Wall balls faster than 28%

Roxzone faster than 29%

Runs (8 km) faster than 27%

Longer is better: the share of the field this segment beat.

Minutes against the typical finisher

SkiErg 0:02 slower

Sled push 0:02 faster

Sled pull 0:04 faster

Burpee broad jump 3:19 slower

Row 0:36 slower

Farmers carry 0:07 slower

Sandbag lunges 3:30 slower

Wall balls 1:48 slower

Roxzone 1:24 slower

Runs (8 km) 6:21 slower

Green, left of centre: faster than the typical Open Men finisher at this race. Orange, right: slower, and by how much.

The race as one bar: Chris against the typical Open Men finisher

Chris1:53:26

4:244:346:193:096:575:226:519:457:165:416:482:256:599:179:389:568:15

Typical Open Men1:35:36

4:034:325:383:116:135:266:116:266:255:056:102:186:125:477:008:086:51

RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

Left to right is the race in order: run 1, SkiErg, run 2, sled push, and so on. A block wider than the one below it is a slower segment than the typical finisher.

Sandbag lunges cost 3:30 against the typical Open Men finisher at Cape Town Apr 2026. The sandbag lunges guide shows whether that is strength or pacing, and the workouts that fix it.

The RoxHype app

Fix sandbag lunges. Then beat 1:53:26.

The RoxHype app takes your real splits, your kit and your next race date, and builds the weeks between.

Every session written for your weak station, not a generic plan
Rebuilt each week from what you actually did
Race-day pacing from your own splits

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