HYROX Announces $2.5 Million Elite Prize Purse for 2026/2027 Season HYROX will offer more than $2.5 million in Elite prize money during the 2026/2027 season, the company announced in an email to athletes. The $2,506,500 total includes five Elite Series races, the World Championships, and the Elite Invitational Relay. The season begins with the Hamburg…

HYROX introduced a modified version of its competition sled this weekend, with a change designed to improve consistency during the sled push and sled pull. The biggest change is underneath. The metal runners that make contact with the carpet are now replaceable, allowing worn runners to be replaced as needed. On the previous sleds, replacing…

Reports circulating Thursday that PUMA has dropped Joanna Wietrzyk following the incident at HYROX Beijing are false. The claim appears to have originated with the Daily Mail, which reported that PUMA had removed a “Joanna Wietrzyk x PUMA” clothing line from its online store. That reporting has since been repeated by several outlets, with some…

HYROX has issued guidance to staff, contractors and representatives working this weekend’s HYROX Salt Lake City event instructing them not to publicly discuss the incident that occurred at HYROX Beijing last weekend. The guidance, obtained by Hybrid Fitness Media, applies to “full-time and part-time employees, contractors, ambassadors and emcees” and specifically includes their personal social…

HYROX has updated its Rulebook following last weekend’s incident at HYROX Beijing, adding specific language allowing a Race Director to remove an athlete from a race if blood, vomit, urine or faeces creates a welfare or contamination risk. The change comes after HYROX co-founder Moritz Fürste issued a personal apology for how the situation involving…