The second Major of the 2025 to 2026 HYROX season brings a strong Women’s Elite 15 Doubles field to Melbourne. The start list includes established Major winners, World Championship finalists, and several teams who entered through deep roll-downs. With prize money awarded from first through fifteenth, every finishing position carries value.
How Women’s Doubles Elite 15 Qualification Works
HYROX reviews all Doubles results from the last 365 days. For Melbourne, the evaluation period closed on 21 November 2025. HYROX ranks each team by their fastest performance. There are no automatic qualifiers in Doubles. HYROX fills the 15 places directly from the ranking list and continues down the list as teams decline.
For Melbourne, the roll-down extended from rank 1 through rank 37.
Final Women’s Elite 15 Doubles Start List with Rankings
Listed in the order teams will be introduced in the arena, with global rankings shown for context.
- Joanna Wietrzyk and Jess Pettrow rank 1
- Mollie Emond and Meg Martin rank 3
- Lauren Griffith and Lauren Weeks rank 4
- Manuela García Caparrós and Seka Arning rank 5
- Lucy Procter and Sinéad Bent rank 6
- Zara Piergianni and Gabriella Moriarty rank 9
- Danél Louw and Vicky MacIntosh rank 10
- Margot Vandenlindenloof and Charlotte Vandenlindenloof rank 12
- Kat Parnell and Jade Skillen rank 13
- Holly Archer and Sophia Parvizi Wayne rank 16
- Melanie Maurer and Jennifer Nikolaus rank 18
- Rachel O’Connor and Maire McGinley rank 22
- Simone Feld and Tanja Stroschneider rank 25
- Gabrielle Nikora-Baker and Nicola-Georgia Macbeth rank 32
- Alysha Martin and Elinor Thomas rank 37
Teams Who Declined or Were Unavailable
These higher ranked teams did not accept invitations and therefore opened the roll-down path:
Tia Toomey and Joanna Wietrzyk
Linda Meier and Megan Jacoby
Linda Meier and Viola Oberländer
Megan Jacoby and Camilla Massa
Kate Davey and Zara Piergianni
Gloria Corbetta and Camilla Massa
Seka Arning and Rebecca Frank
Lisa O’Rourke and Aoife O’Rourke
Viola Oberländer and Jana Lebenstedt
Gabriella Moriarty and Zara Piergianni
Maria Fecik and Jess Pettrow
Camilla Massa and Seka Arning
Aoife Fay and Sam Pretty
Kate Hutchinson and Fern Gardner
Seka Arning and Zeliha Puls
Bridget Brown and Terra Jackson
Jana Lebenstedt and Jade Skillen
It is one of the widest decline lists of the season, influenced by travel distance and the tight race calendar surrounding Hamburg and Chicago.
Roll-Down Depth
Alysha Martin and Elinor Thomas rank 37. HYROX moved through 36 teams to complete the Melbourne field.
Field Profile
Major and World Championship contenders
Wietrzyk and Pettrow, Emond and Martin, and Griffith and Weeks are established podium threats.
Rising UK and Irish teams
Procter and Bent, Piergianni and Moriarty, and Parnell and Skillen enter with competitive times inside the global top fifteen.
Broader international field
Teams representing Australia, South Africa, Switzerland, and Ireland create competitive depth throughout the middle of the list.
Prize Money
(These amounts are per team)
1st $10,000
2nd $6,400
3rd $4,000
4th $3,200
5th $2,800
6th $2,400
7th $2,000
8th $1,800
9th $1,600
10th $1,400
11th $1,200
12th $1,000
13th $800
14th $600
15th $600
Melbourne Elite 15 Doubles Race Schedule
Local time in Melbourne (GMT plus 11)
Women’s Elite 15 Doubles
4:00pm Melbourne
Midnight EST
9:00pm PST
5:00am UK
Livestream coverage begins 30 minutes before each race.
How to Watch
Women’s Elite 15 Doubles Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j62V0TX-hg0
Looking Ahead
Melbourne is the second of four Majors this season. Because rankings in Doubles are based only on each team’s fastest result within the 365 day window, a strong performance in Melbourne can shift positions significantly ahead of Phoenix, Washington DC, and London Olympia.