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Karl Swan

Since 2025, Karl Swan has raced HYROX 7 times at 6 events across 2 categories, the mixed Doubles Open most often (5). The fastest of 5 in the mixed Doubles Open is 1:01:06 at Cardiff 2026, a top-10% finish: 12th of 491 mixed teams. With Emma Bexson both times, that is 4:23 quicker on the clock than the first of them, at Barcelona 2025.

Best finish, by category
Doubles Open · Mixed
1:01:06
Cardiff 2026
Individual Open · Men
1:07:15
Verona 2025

Progress against the field

Karl Swan and Emma Bexson have dropped 0:31 behind the field from Barcelona 2025 to Cardiff 2026.

The clock says 4:23 faster, but the races themselves got 4:54 quicker for everyone.

Time ahead of the field Up is better
Barcelona 2025 Cardiff 2026
Race by race, in the list below ↓
How this is worked out ⓘ

A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Emma Bexson, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.

Every race

7 races · 6 events

  1. Stockholm
    18 Jun 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:04:41
    512/825
    Beat 38%
  2. Cardiff
    29 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:01:06 PB
    12/491
    Beat 98%
    ↑ 13 days after Malaga 2026, with Emma Bexson 0:00 better than the field Why ↓

    Moved with the field: 0:12 faster on the clock, against 0:12 faster for everyone.

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  3. Malaga
    16 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:01:18
    18/546
    Beat 97%
    ↑ 176 days after Birmingham 2025, with Emma Bexson 0:03 better than the field Why ↓

    3:04 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:01 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.

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  4. Verona
    5 Dec 2025
    Individual Open · Men
    1:07:15 PB
    73/1523
    Beat 95%
    ↑ 224 days after Barcelona 2025 0:21 better than the field Why ↓

    3:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:37 faster for everyone, so 0:21 of it was this athlete.

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  5. Birmingham
    22 Oct 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:04:22
    41/889
    Beat 95%
    ↑ 180 days after Barcelona 2025, with Emma Bexson 0:34 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓

    1:07 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 1:41 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:34 behind the field.

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  6. Barcelona
    25 Apr 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:05:29
    84/774
    Beat 89%
  7. Barcelona
    25 Apr 2025
    Individual Open · Men
    1:11:13
    164/1106
    Beat 85%

Personal bests, by station

3:56
Birmingham 2025
1:42
Malaga 2026
3:11
Cardiff 2026
2:19
Malaga 2026
4:21
Barcelona 2025
1:20
Birmingham 2025
2:37
Cardiff 2026
3:31
Cardiff 2026

Station by station, race by race

Individual Open · Men Doubles Open · Mixed Faster is lower
1000m SkiErg
4:13 3:56
50m Sled Push
2:59 1:42
50m Sled Pull
3:53 3:11
80m Burpee Broad Jump
3:24 2:19
1000m Row
4:39 4:21
200m Farmers Carry
1:40 1:20
100m Sandbag Lunges
3:58 2:37
Wall Balls
5:17 3:31