Athlete · Open Women · 40-44 ·

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Merel Kester

5 HYROX results (1 solo, 4 in a team) over 3 seasons. Personal bests: Open Women 2:08:49 (Utrecht 2025) · Doubles Mixed 1:31:01 (Helsinki 2026) · Doubles Women 1:31:43 (Maastricht 2026).

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2:08:49 Open Women time · Utrecht 2025 also raced Doubles Mixed, Doubles Women: each has its own best below

818th of 872 Open Women place · Utrecht 2025 among Open Women finishers there

1:31:43 latest race · Maastricht 2026 first Doubles Women race Doubles Women with Diane Kester

SkiErg strongest segment · Utrecht 2025 faster than 41% 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 Women2:08:49Utrecht 2025 · 1 race Doubles Mixed1:31:01Helsinki 2026 · 3 races · with Richard Van Hulst Doubles Women1:31:43Maastricht 2026 · 1 race · with Diane Kester

Doubles Mixed: finish time, race by race

oldest to newest · a line going down means getting faster

1:32:001:33:001:34:00 best 1:31:01 best 1:31:01 · Helsinki

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

5 results

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Race	Division	Time	Place	Runs	Stations	Roxzone
Maastricht 2026 17 Sept 2026team: Diane Kester, Merel Kesterwhat the whole field did →	Doubles Women · team 40-44	1:31:43	791st of 1,366	51:23	30:30	9:55	splits SkiErg4:30Sled push1:38Sled pull3:41Burpee broad jump4:24Row5:05Farmers carry1:51Sandbag lunges4:07Wall balls5:14Run 14:16Run 26:23Run 36:41Run 46:44Run 56:47Run 66:46Run 76:40Run 87:11Full report for this race →
Helsinki 2026 9 May 2026team: Richard Van Hulst, Merel Kesterwhat the whole field did →	Doubles Mixed · team 40-44	1:31:01	602nd of 718	50:38	32:20	8:07	splits SkiErg4:30Sled push2:04Sled pull4:54Burpee broad jump4:41Row4:57Farmers carry1:47Sandbag lunges4:40Wall balls4:47Run 16:29Run 25:55Run 36:09Run 46:17Run 56:01Run 66:19Run 76:06Run 87:26Full report for this race →
Amsterdam 2026 21 Jan 2026team: Richard Van Hulst, Merel Kesterwhat the whole field did →	Doubles Mixed · team 40-44	1:33:47	1954th of 2,259	51:43	34:09	7:59	splits SkiErg4:16Sled push2:18Sled pull5:33Burpee broad jump4:40Row5:00Farmers carry2:02Sandbag lunges4:53Wall balls5:27Run 14:42Run 26:21Run 36:32Run 46:33Run 56:45Run 66:44Run 76:41Run 87:29Full report for this race →
Utrecht 2025 28 Nov 2025what the whole field did →	Open Women · 40-44	2:08:49	818th of 872	1:02:09	57:27	9:18	splits SkiErg5:12Sled push3:29Sled pull6:14Burpee broad jump16:27Row5:40Farmers carry3:11Sandbag lunges7:46Wall balls9:28Run 16:03Run 27:11Run 37:24Run 47:24Run 58:05Run 67:50Run 77:48Run 810:27Full report for this race →
Mechelen 2025 5 Apr 2025team: Merel Kester, Richard Van Hulstwhat the whole field did →	Doubles Mixed · team 40-49	1:31:22	605th of 722	48:25	31:41	11:16	splits SkiErg4:22Sled push1:51Sled pull5:15Burpee broad jump4:40Row4:59Farmers carry1:51Sandbag lunges4:33Wall balls4:10Run 17:34Run 25:42Run 35:49Run 45:46Run 55:46Run 65:48Run 75:49Run 86:11Full 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

Utrecht 2025, against 872 Open Women

Full race report →

Shape of the race

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns

Mereledge = 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 41%

Sled push faster than 37%

Sled pull faster than 19%

Burpee broad jump faster than 0%

Row faster than 24%

Farmers carry faster than 12%

Sandbag lunges faster than 9%

Wall balls faster than 17%

Roxzone faster than 7%

Runs (8 km) faster than 11%

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

Minutes against the typical finisher

SkiErg 0:06 slower

Sled push 0:14 slower

Sled pull 1:02 slower

Burpee broad jump 9:35 slower

Row 0:19 slower

Farmers carry 0:52 slower

Sandbag lunges 2:45 slower

Wall balls 2:35 slower

Roxzone 3:10 slower

Runs (8 km) 12:40 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: Merel against the typical Open Women finisher

Merel2:08:49

6:035:127:113:297:246:147:2416:278:055:407:503:117:487:4610:279:289:18

Typical Open Women1:35:25

5:305:066:033:156:235:126:246:526:385:216:302:196:285:015:226:536:08

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.

Burpee broad jump cost 9:35 against the typical Open Women finisher at Utrecht 2025. The burpee broad jump guide shows whether that is strength or pacing, and the workouts that fix it.

The RoxHype app

Fix burpee broad jump. Then beat 2:08:49.

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