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Darren Saunders

Darren Saunders has raced HYROX 6 times since 2023, in 2 categories, most often the men's Doubles Open (5). The fastest of 5 in the men's Doubles Open is 58:44 at Warsaw 2026, a top-10% finish: 8th of 175 men's teams. Finished in the top 10% of the field twice.

Best finish, by category
Doubles Open · Men
58:44
Warsaw 2026
Individual Open · Men
1:28:26
Valencia 2023

Progress against the field

Between Dublin 2024 and Dublin 2025, Darren Saunders and Dean Hanney pulled 0:51 ahead of the field.

Over the same races everyone got 2:18 quicker, so 3:09 faster on the clock looks better than it was.

Time ahead of the field Up is better
Dublin 2024 Dublin 2025

The longest gap between two races compared here, 182 days between Dublin 2024 and Berlin 2025, still ended 4:35 ahead of the field.

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

6 races · 6 events

  1. Warsaw
    16 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Men
    58:44 PB
    8/175
    Beat 95%
  2. Dublin
    12 Nov 2025
    Doubles Open · Men
    1:05:09
    159/667
    Beat 76%
    ↑ 180 days after Berlin 2025, with Dean Hanney 3:44 worse than the field Why ↓

    3:44 behind the field: 4:29 slower on the clock, against 0:45 slower for everyone.

    Compare these two →
  3. Berlin
    16 May 2025
    Doubles Open · Men
    1:00:40
    77/496
    Beat 85%
    ↑ 182 days after Dublin 2024, with Dean Hanney 4:35 better than the field Why ↓

    7:38 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:03 faster for everyone, so 4:35 of it was this pair.

    Compare these two →
  4. Dublin
    15 Nov 2024
    Doubles Open · Men
    1:08:18
    254/638
    Beat 60%
  5. Amsterdam
    10 Oct 2024
    Doubles Open · Men
    1:02:53
    49/855
    Beat 94%
  6. Valencia
    28 Oct 2023
    Individual Open · Men
    1:28:26 PB
    229/387
    Beat 41%

Personal bests, by station

3:44
Amsterdam 2024
1:33
Amsterdam 2024
2:42
Amsterdam 2024
2:16
Berlin 2025
4:10
Warsaw 2026
1:12
Warsaw 2026
2:44
Dublin 2024
3:46
Dublin 2024

Station by station, race by race

Doubles Open · Men Faster is lower
1000m SkiErg
3:57 3:44
50m Sled Push
1:46 1:33
50m Sled Pull
3:15 2:42
80m Burpee Broad Jump
3:00 2:16
1000m Row
4:33 4:10
200m Farmers Carry
1:42 1:12
100m Sandbag Lunges
3:13 2:44
Wall Balls
5:25 3:46