Alexander Roncevic and Tim Wenisch are not among the 15 teams in the HYROX Elite 15 Men’s Doubles rankings ahead of Hamburg. The Austrian-German pairing was listed first on both the Hamburg 2025 and 2026 World Championships doubles start lists.

Under HYROX’s Elite rules for the 2026/27 season, doubles partners must be from the same country. The rule broke up eight of the 15 men’s teams and three of the 15 women’s teams from the Worlds Elite Doubles fields.

HYROX Hamburg runs October 28 to November 1 at Hamburg Messe and opens the 2026/27 Elite Series. This comparison uses the Elite 15 doubles rankings as of October 5. The rankings are not the final start list.

Elite 15 Men’s Doubles

Worlds teams split by the same-country rule (8):

• Alexander Roncevic (AUT) / Tim Wenisch (GER)
• James Kelly (AUS) / Jake Dearden (ENG)
• Jeremy McConnell (IRL) / Fabian Eisenlauer (GER)
• Jake Williamson (ENG) / Hunter McIntyre (USA)
• Rich Ryan (USA) / Pelayo Menendez Fernandez (ESP)
• Maarten Enthoven (NED) / Louis Osselaer (BEL)
• James Newbury (AUS) / Dene Flude (NZL)
• Marko Nicic (SRB) / Alexis Bernier (FRA)

Same team from Worlds 2026 (3): Sebastian Ifversen / Gustav Cordua, Stephen Pelkofer / Dylan Scott, Martin Lecorgne / Xavier Dufour

Same team from Hamburg 2025 (1): Ciaran Parkinson / Tony Revell

All-new teams (3): Dawson Miller / Marcus Wallace, Ben Sutherland / Harry Sutherland, Cole Learn / Frédéric Dubé

Several athletes from split teams are ranked with new partners from their own country. Kelly is third with Australian Matthew Slee. Eisenlauer is fifth with German Paul Weindl. Enthoven is ninth with Dutch partner Cem Ter Burg. McConnell is 15th with Irish partner David Kelly.

Dearden is ranked 11th with Charlie Botterill. Williamson is eighth with Luke Greer. Botterill and Greer both raced Worlds with other English partners, Ollie Russell and Harry Thompson. Russell is ranked 12th with Travis Owles.

Ifversen/Cordua and Pelkofer/Scott are tied for first on 320 points, with strength of field as the tiebreaker. Teams ranked fifth through 15th are all tied on 315 points.

England has five teams in the top 15.

Five men are ranked in both the singles and doubles top 15: Scott, Ifversen, Botterill, Greer and Learn.

Elite 15 Women’s Doubles

Worlds teams split by the same-country rule (3):

• Manuela García (ESP) / Seka Arning (GER)
• Melanie Maurer (SUI) / Jennifer Nikolaus (GER)
• Ida Mathilde Steensgaard (DEN) / Elli Stenfors (FIN)

Same team from Worlds 2026 (7): Vivian Tafuto / Lauren Weeks, Lucy Procter / Sinéad Bent, Jess Pettrow / Joanna Wietrzyk, Charlie Searle / Lauren Stockley, Vicky MacIntosh / Danél Louw, Calypso Sheridan / Meg Martin, Morgan Schulz / Katherine Fahsbender

Same team from Hamburg 2025 (1): Jess Pettrow / Joanna Wietrzyk

All-new teams (6): Saskia Millard / Holly Archer, Guro Bolas / Elin Bolas, Jezabel Kremer / Rebecca Houard, Iza Tulkens / Michaela Disseldorp, Aki Yoshida / Megumi Hirayama, Jiao Liu / Jia Yun Yan

Tafuto/Weeks lead with 335 points. Procter/Bent are second with 328 and Pettrow/Wietrzyk third with 327.

Arning is ranked ninth with German partner Stefanie Oswald. Lauren Griffith, who raced Hamburg 2025 with Weeks, is 11th with Sydney Wells.

Teams from Japan and China are ranked 14th and 15th. Positions eight through 15 are all tied on 315 points.

Millard is ranked in both fields: sixth in singles and eighth in doubles with Archer.

Current Top 15

Men’s Doubles

Women’s Doubles

Hybrid Fitness Media will update these lists when HYROX publishes the official Hamburg start lists.

Related:

• HYROX Hamburg 2026 Elite Series First Look