What is a good HYROX time for women?
A good HYROX time for a woman in the Open division is under 1:18:08. That is the top-10% cut across 100,281 Open Women finishes, so beating it puts you in the fastest tenth of the field.
The typical Open Women finish, the actual middle of the field, is 1:36:08. A tenth of finishers take longer than 2:07:26.
If your first race came in anywhere between 1:18:08 and 2:07:26, you had a completely normal HYROX race.
Much of the "good time" advice online quotes something close to 1:18:08 as though it were average. It is not. It is the top 10%. Half of every Open Women field finishes slower than 1:36:08.
So the useful question is not "is my time good?" It is "where am I in the field, and which part of the race is holding me there?" Both have answers on this page.
Open Women: the top 10%, typical and slowest 10% finish times.
| Finishers | 100,281 |
|---|---|
| Top 10% cut | 1:18:08 |
| Typical | 1:36:08 |
| Slowest 10% | 2:07:26 |
The Open Men typical is 1:27:49, about 8 minutes quicker. Most of that gap is running, not station work.
The fastest HYROX times ever
| Division | Athlete | Time | Race |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Women | Joanna Wietrzyk | 54:25 | Warsaw 2026 |
| Open Women | Lauren Weeks | 55:38 | Washington DC 2025 |
Pro is the heavier division the elite race; Open carries lighter sleds, which is why an Open record can be faster than the Pro one. Records from every published HYROX result since 2024.
Every HYROX record by division, age group and station, on RoxTimes →
What each step up costs, in minutes
"Good" is a range, not one number. Here is what each step up in Open Women takes on the clock.
| Place | Finish time | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Top 5% est. | 1:15:53 | Sharp end of the field. Podium contention in an age group at most venues. |
| Top 10% | 1:18:08 | The measured cut. This is what "elite for an amateur" actually means. |
| Top quarter | 1:24:53 | Clearly a trained athlete who has raced before and paced it. |
| Typical | 1:36:08 | The middle finisher. Half the field is behind you. |
| Mid-pack | 1:55:42 | A normal, completed, respectable race. Most first-timers land here or just behind. |
Moving from the typical into the top 25% takes about 11 minutes. Across eight runs and eight stations, that is around 40 seconds each. Not a different body. Not a different life.
Open Women by age group
Age moves the number less than people expect. The typical 25–29 finish is 1:34:26, from 22,300 finishes. The typical 45–49 finish is 1:38:29, from 7,105.
So twenty years moves the middle of the field by about 4 minutes.
| Age | Women | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finishers | Top 10% | Typical | Slowest 10% | |
| 16-24 | 13,597 | 1:17:48 | 1:35:55 | 2:06:08 |
| 25-29 | 22,300 | 1:17:07 | 1:34:26 | 2:04:17 |
| 30-34 | 21,762 | 1:17:13 | 1:34:55 | 2:06:22 |
| 35-39 | 17,342 | 1:18:06 | 1:36:08 | 2:06:58 |
| 40-44 | 11,950 | 1:18:59 | 1:36:53 | 2:07:46 |
| 45-49 | 7,105 | 1:20:04 | 1:38:29 | 2:12:27 |
| 50-54 | 3,590 | 1:22:00 | 1:40:30 | 2:13:21 |
| 55-59 | 1,589 | 1:25:40 | 1:45:26 | 2:21:57 |
| 60-64 | 763 | 1:23:08 | 1:45:47 | 2:17:08 |
| 65-69 | 193 | 1:34:54 | 1:57:23 | 2:37:14 |
| 70-74 | 55 | 1:36:43 | 2:10:30 | 2:46:34 |
| 75-79 | 6 | — | 2:17:48 | — |
| All | 100,281 | 1:18:08 | 1:36:08 | 2:07:26 |
Racing Pro, Doubles or Mixed instead? Pro Women typical 1:26:40, Women's Doubles typical 1:28:16. The doubles page covers why pair times are not comparable to singles, and the by-age page has both genders side by side.
What the top 10% do differently
Compare the top-10% cut with the typical, split by split, and you see where the fast women take their time out. The three biggest gaps for Open Women are burpee broad jumps (2:01), wall balls (2:01), sandbag lunges (1:24).
The ergs, where many people spend their intervals, barely separate anybody.
A top-10% Open Women finish is 17:23 faster than a typical one. The stations below are sorted by how much of that they win.
| Station | Top 10% | Typical | Slowest 10% | Top 10% saves | Where the time is |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burpee broad jumps | 4:47 | 6:48 | 10:26 | 2:01 | |
| Wall balls | 4:54 | 6:54 | 11:10 | 2:01 | |
| Sandbag lunges | 3:52 | 5:16 | 7:46 | 1:24 | |
| Sled pull | 4:29 | 5:52 | 8:10 | 1:23 | |
| Sled push | 2:18 | 2:58 | 4:00 | 40s | |
| Rowing | 5:02 | 5:33 | 6:19 | 31s | |
| Farmers carry | 1:53 | 2:21 | 3:15 | 28s | |
| SkiErg | 4:52 | 5:19 | 5:58 | 27s |
Each station has its own page with the standards, the weights for every division, and a check on whether your split is a strength problem or a fitness one. Start with your worst, or browse the station benchmarks index.
Put your own time on the Open Women curve
Your time, your place in the field, your next step
Preset to Open Women, all ages. Change the age group if you want your own bracket.
So what should you actually do with this?
If you have not raced yet, stop looking for a target time. Estimate where you would land today, from a full simulation or from a 5K and your wall ball capacity.
Put that in the widget and read the next step up. That is your eight-week goal, not a round number somebody posted online.
If you have raced, take your three worst splits against the typical column above and train those three for eight weeks. Nothing else. Training the whole race again is why many second races barely improve.
For Open Women the biggest station gaps are burpee broad jumps and wall balls, so that is where many of the minutes are. The last two runs are the other place to look.
One more thing, because it comes up in every "good time for women" thread: venue matters. The share of a finish spent running changes by several percentage points between courses, which is worth minutes to the same athlete.
A slower time at a slow venue is not a worse race. Compare yourself to your own division's spread, not to a friend who raced somewhere else.
The rest of the benchmarks
Straight to a station: SkiErg · Sled push · Sled pull · Burpee broad jumps · Rowing · Farmers carry · Sandbag lunges · Wall balls
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