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Merel Spanjers

Merel Spanjers has raced HYROX 7 times at 6 events since 2025, in 3 categories, most often the mixed Doubles Open (5). 1:00:09 at Heerenveen 2026 is the fastest of 5 in the mixed Doubles Open, 15th of 461 mixed teams and inside the top 10%. In the top 10% of the field 7 times.

Best finish, by category
Doubles Open · Mixed
1:00:09
Heerenveen 2026
Doubles Open · Women
1:01:47
Heerenveen 2026
Doubles Pro · Women
1:06:02
Utrecht 2025

Progress against the field

Merel Spanjers and Hidde van der Beek have dropped 1:54 behind the field from Gent 2025 to Rotterdam 2026.

The clock says 0:34 faster, but the races themselves got 2:28 quicker for everyone.

Time ahead of the field Up is better
Gent 2025 Rotterdam 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.

Every race

7 races · 6 events

  1. Heerenveen
    14 May 2026
    Doubles Open · Women
    1:01:47 PB
    2/246
    Beat 99%
  2. Heerenveen
    14 May 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:00:09 PB
    15/461
    Beat 97%
  3. Rotterdam
    15 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:01:20
    9/544
    Beat 98%
    ↑ 20 days after Mechelen 2026, with Hidde van der Beek 0:41 worse than the field Why ↓

    0:41 behind the field: 0:56 slower on the clock, against 0:15 slower for everyone.

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  4. Mechelen
    26 Mar 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:00:24
    16/394
    Beat 96%
    ↑ 64 days after Amsterdam 2026, with Hidde van der Beek 0:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓

    0:34 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:02 faster for everyone, so 0:28 was lost on the field.

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  5. Amsterdam
    21 Jan 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:00:58
    14/496
    Beat 97%
    ↑ 40 days after Gent 2025, with Hidde van der Beek 0:45 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓

    0:56 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:41 faster for everyone, so 0:45 was lost on the field.

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  6. Gent
    12 Dec 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:01:54
    27/863
    Beat 97%
  7. Utrecht
    28 Nov 2025
    Doubles Pro · Women
    1:06:02 PB
    6/102
    Beat 94%

Personal bests, by station

3:49
Gent 2025
1:32
Heerenveen 2026
2:36
Heerenveen 2026
2:56
Rotterdam 2026
4:08
Gent 2025
1:23
Amsterdam 2026
3:01
Heerenveen 2026
3:33
Gent 2025

Station by station, race by race

Doubles Open · Mixed Faster is lower
1000m SkiErg
4:07 3:49
50m Sled Push
2:11 1:47
50m Sled Pull
3:42 2:52
80m Burpee Broad Jump
3:27 2:56
1000m Row
4:39 4:08
200m Farmers Carry
1:42 1:23
100m Sandbag Lunges
3:31 3:03
Wall Balls
3:46 3:33