Darryn vs Leigh

NZL NZL · Open Men · 3 results

Darryn Els

1:20:09 best Open Men time · Auckland 2025
203rd of 848 place in that race · 848 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Leigh de Clifford

1:18:00 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
1005th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Darryn: Auckland 2025, Open Men · Leigh: Sydney 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
DarrynLeighedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Darryn and Leigh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Darryn: strongest on Pull (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 54%).Leigh: strongest on Row (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 45%).

See the numbers
Part Darryn: faster than Leigh: faster than
Ski 85% 68%
Push 79% 94%
Pull 96% 95%
BBJ 88% 71%
Row 93% 97%
Carry 84% 87%
Lunges 91% 82%
Wall balls 72% 45%
Roxzone 73% 71%
Runs 54% 56%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Darryn Leigh
SkiErg 85% 68%
Sled push 79% 94%
Sled pull 96% 95%
Burpee broad jump 88% 71%
Row 93% 97%
Farmers carry 84% 87%
Sandbag lunges 91% 82%
Wall balls 72% 45%
Roxzone (moving) 73% 71%
Runs (8 km) 54% 56%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Darryn · Auckland 2025 · Open Men1:20:09
5:324:025:052:175:203:265:264:165:404:265:331:505:404:015:495:515:54
Leigh · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:18:00
4:054:184:191:544:383:114:454:534:504:124:511:384:484:226:227:207:43
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Darryn · Auckland 2025 · Open Men: 44:05 running, 30:08 at the stations and 5:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:51).Below, Leigh · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 38:38 running, 31:47 at the stations and 7:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:20).

See the numbers
Part Darryn · Auckland 2025 · Open Men Leigh · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:32 4:05
SkiErg 4:02 4:18
Run 2 5:05 4:19
Sled push 2:17 1:54
Run 3 5:20 4:38
Sled pull 3:26 3:11
Run 4 5:26 4:45
Burpee broad jump 4:16 4:53
Run 5 5:40 4:50
Row 4:26 4:12
Run 6 5:33 4:51
Farmers carry 1:50 1:38
Run 7 5:40 4:48
Sandbag lunges 4:01 4:22
Run 8 5:49 6:22
Wall balls 5:51 7:20
Roxzone 5:54 7:43
Finish 1:20:09 1:18:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Darryn Leigh Gap
Auckland 2026 Open Men · 29 Jan 2026 1:21:52 1:21:48 0:04 · Leigh faster
The RoxHype app

Close the gap at your next race.

The RoxHype app is your training plan to race day: built from your splits, your kit and your race date, and adjusted every week.

  • A week-by-week plan that counts down to your race
  • Extra work on your slowest stations
  • Adjusts every week to what you actually did

Free to download. Used by more than 40,000 HYROX athletes.

RoxHype app home: days to your HYROX, your expected finish range and this week's sessions RoxHype workout player guiding a sled push, with the next exercise lined up