Philisiwe vs Sadie

RSA RSA · Open Women · 2 results

Philisiwe Hlophe

1:52:47 best Open Women time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
209th of 382 place in that race · 382 Open Women finishers
RSA RSA · Open Women · 2 results

Sadie Niekerk

1:53:32 best Open Women time · Johannesburg 2026
302nd of 627 place in that race · 627 Open Women finishers

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

Philisiwe: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Women · Sadie: Johannesburg 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Philisiwe and Sadie sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Philisiwe: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 9%).Sadie: strongest on Ski (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 20%).

See the numbers
Part Philisiwe: faster than Sadie: faster than
Ski 34% 77%
Push 62% 42%
Pull 57% 53%
BBJ 18% 50%
Row 9% 20%
Carry 32% 67%
Lunges 42% 39%
Wall balls 44% 66%
Roxzone 65% 55%
Runs 52% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Philisiwe Sadie
SkiErg 34% 77%
Sled push 62% 42%
Sled pull 57% 53%
Burpee broad jump 18% 50%
Row 9% 20%
Farmers carry 32% 67%
Sandbag lunges 42% 39%
Wall balls 44% 66%
Roxzone (moving) 65% 55%
Runs (8 km) 52% 48%

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

Philisiwe · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Women1:52:47
4:315:366:172:416:206:376:3912:177:137:247:042:327:075:419:008:277:28
Sadie · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Women1:53:32
7:325:205:583:106:446:546:349:176:386:586:222:226:176:369:357:1810:06
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.Philisiwe · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Women: 54:11 running, 51:14 at the stations and 7:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (12:17).Below, Sadie · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Women: 55:40 running, 47:55 at the stations and 10:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:17).

See the numbers
Part Philisiwe · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Women Sadie · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:31 7:32
SkiErg 5:36 5:20
Run 2 6:17 5:58
Sled push 2:41 3:10
Run 3 6:20 6:44
Sled pull 6:37 6:54
Run 4 6:39 6:34
Burpee broad jump 12:17 9:17
Run 5 7:13 6:38
Row 7:24 6:58
Run 6 7:04 6:22
Farmers carry 2:32 2:22
Run 7 7:07 6:17
Sandbag lunges 5:41 6:36
Run 8 9:00 9:35
Wall balls 8:27 7:18
Roxzone 7:28 10:06
Finish 1:52:47 1:53:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Philisiwe Sadie Gap
Johannesburg 2026 Open Women · 30 May 2026 1:53:39 1:53:32 0:07 · Sadie 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