Athlete · Open Women · 40-44 ·

RSA

Melissa van der Merwe

4 HYROX results (3 solo, 1 in a team) over 2 seasons. Personal bests: Open Women 1:36:33 (Cape Town Aug 2026) · Doubles Women 1:44:13 (Johannesburg 2025).

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1:36:33 best Open Women time · Cape Town Aug 2026 also raced Doubles Women: each has its own best below

top 39% best Open Women place · Cape Town Apr 2026 212th of 546 Open Women finishers there

1:36:33 latest race · Cape Town Aug 2026 best Open Women time so far Open Women

Sled pull strongest segment · Cape Town Aug 2026 faster than 97% of the Open Women 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 Women1:36:33Cape Town Aug 2026 · 3 races Doubles Women1:44:13Johannesburg 2025 · 1 race · with Mar-Rena van der Merwe

Open Women: finish time, race by race

oldest to newest · a line going down means getting faster

1:40:001:45:001:50:001:55:002:00:002:05:00 best 1:36:33 best 1:36:33 · Cape Town

Each dot is one Open Women race. From the first Open Women race to the best: 30:48 faster (2:07:21 to 1:36:33).

Every race

4 results

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Race	Division	Time	Place	Runs	Stations	Roxzone
Cape Town Aug 2026 15 Aug 2026what the whole field did →	Open Women · 40-44	1:36:33	top 41% 174/426	55:21	34:22	6:55	splits SkiErg5:13Sled push2:06Sled pull3:58Burpee broad jump5:57Row4:56Farmers carry2:12Sandbag lunges4:21Wall balls5:39Run 15:25Run 27:01Run 37:14Run 47:34Run 57:19Run 67:02Run 77:01Run 86:48Full report for this race →
Cape Town Apr 2026 5 Apr 2026what the whole field did →	Open Women · 35-39	1:39:41	top 39% 212/546	56:01	36:36	7:08	splits SkiErg5:25Sled push2:26Sled pull4:18Burpee broad jump5:47Row5:13Farmers carry1:57Sandbag lunges4:45Wall balls6:45Run 15:13Run 27:05Run 37:27Run 47:19Run 57:14Run 66:52Run 76:59Run 87:54Full report for this race →
Johannesburg 2025 28 Nov 2025team: Mar-Rena van der Merwe, Melissa van der Merwewhat the whole field did →	Doubles Women · team 35-39	1:44:13	top 48% 339/714	1:03:32	30:25	10:20	splits SkiErg5:13Sled push2:05Sled pull3:23Burpee broad jump4:02Row5:06Farmers carry2:06Sandbag lunges3:33Wall balls4:57Run 15:06Run 27:41Run 37:56Run 48:06Run 58:07Run 68:30Run 78:18Run 89:52Full report for this race →
Cape Town 2025 18 Jul 2025what the whole field did →	Open Women · 35-39	2:07:21	358th of 431	1:07:04	49:15	11:05	splits SkiErg5:34Sled push3:02Sled pull5:59Burpee broad jump11:09Row5:37Farmers carry2:13Sandbag lunges7:00Wall balls8:41Run 15:12Run 27:42Run 38:15Run 48:23Run 59:16Run 68:55Run 79:03Run 810:21Full 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 Women race

Cape Town Aug 2026, against 426 Open Women

Full race report →

Shape of the race

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns

Melissaedge = 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 56%

Sled push faster than 89%

Sled pull faster than 97%

Burpee broad jump faster than 75%

Row faster than 92%

Farmers carry faster than 65%

Sandbag lunges faster than 84%

Wall balls faster than 81%

Roxzone faster than 50%

Runs (8 km) faster than 39%

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

Minutes against the typical finisher

SkiErg 0:04 faster

Sled push 0:36 faster

Sled pull 1:53 faster

Burpee broad jump 1:29 faster

Row 0:38 faster

Farmers carry 0:11 faster

Sandbag lunges 1:15 faster

Wall balls 1:49 faster

Roxzone 0:02 faster

Runs (8 km) 3:27 slower

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

The race as one bar: Melissa against the typical Open Women finisher

Melissa1:36:33

5:255:137:012:067:143:587:345:577:194:567:022:127:014:216:485:396:55

Typical Open Women1:40:57

4:335:176:182:426:435:516:437:266:515:346:442:236:455:367:067:286:57

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.

The RoxHype app

Training for the next one? Let's beat 1:36:33.

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