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Melanie Carsten

Since 2023, Melanie Carsten has raced HYROX 19 times at 16 events across 5 categories, the mixed Doubles Open and the women's Individual Pro 5 times each. 55:37 at Manchester 2025 is the fastest of 5 in the mixed Doubles Open, 4th of 733 mixed teams and inside the top 10%. Won the field 3 times.

Best finish, by category
Doubles Open · Mixed
55:37
Manchester 2025
Individual Pro · Women
1:06:24
Manchester 2026
Doubles Open · Women
59:16
Glasgow 2025
Individual Open · Women
1:06:32
Cape Town 1 2026
Doubles Pro · Women
59:22
London Excel 2025

Progress against the field

Between Birmingham 2024 and Birmingham 2025, Melanie Carsten and Amy Fish lost 6:14 to the field.

The clock says 0:54 slower, but the races themselves got 5:20 quicker for everyone.

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

The longest gap between two races compared here, 217 days between Birmingham 2024 and Cardiff 2025, cost 2:47 on 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Women, with Amy Fish, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.

Every race

19 races · 16 events

  1. Cape Town 1
    3 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:01:41
    14/400
    Beat 97%
  2. Cape Town 1
    3 Apr 2026
    Individual Open · Women
    1:06:32 PB
    1/181
    Beat 99%
  3. Manchester
    21 Jan 2026
    Individual Pro · Women
    1:06:24 PB
    3/146
    Beat 98%
  4. London Excel
    4 Dec 2025
    Doubles Pro · Women
    59:22 PB
    3/339
    Beat 99%
  5. Birmingham
    22 Oct 2025
    Doubles Open · Women
    1:01:55
    4/904
    Beat 100%
    ↑ 145 days after Cardiff 2025, with Amy Fish 3:27 worse than the field Why ↓

    2:15 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:12 faster for everyone: 3:27 lost to the field.

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  6. Cape Town
    19 Jul 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    56:02
    2/547
    Beat 100%
  7. Cape Town
    19 Jul 2025
    Individual Pro · Women
    1:07:52
    4/59
    Beat 93%
  8. Cardiff
    30 May 2025
    Doubles Open · Women
    59:40
    1/247
    Beat 100%
    ↑ 217 days after Birmingham 2024, with Amy Fish 2:47 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓

    1:21 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 4:08 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:47 behind the field.

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  9. London
    3 May 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    56:16
    1/956
    Beat 100%
    ↑ 99 days after Manchester 2025, with Perry Mullins 4:18 worse than the field Why ↓

    4:18 behind the field: 0:39 slower on the clock, against 3:39 faster for everyone.

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  10. Glasgow
    12 Mar 2025
    Doubles Open · Women
    59:16 PB
    2/796
    Beat 100%
  11. Glasgow
    12 Mar 2025
    Individual Pro · Women
    1:07:11
    8/127
    Beat 94%
  12. Manchester
    24 Jan 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    55:37 PB
    4/733
    Beat 100%
  13. London
    29 Nov 2024
    Doubles Pro · Women
    59:55
    2/73
    Beat 97%
  14. Manchester
    9 Nov 2024
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    57:52
    4/410
    Beat 99%
  15. Birmingham
    25 Oct 2024
    Doubles Open · Women
    1:01:01
    4/973
    Beat 100%
  16. Sports Direct HYROX London
    4 May 2024
    Individual Pro · Women
    1:10:11
    4/118
    Beat 97%
  17. London
    26 Nov 2023
    Individual Open · Women
    1:07:28
    7/961
    Beat 99%
    ↑ 36 days after Birmingham 2023 3:00 worse than the field Why ↓

    0:03 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:57 faster for everyone: 3:00 lost to the field.

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  18. Birmingham
    21 Oct 2023
    Individual Open · Women
    1:07:25
    2/532
    Beat 100%
  19. World Championships Nice
    Date unknown
    Individual Pro · Women
    1:10:05
    37/677
    Beat 95%

Personal bests, by station

3:32
London 2025
1:08
Birmingham 2024
2:15
Cape Town 2025
2:02
Cape Town 2025
3:49
London 2025
1:10
Birmingham 2024
2:15
Cardiff 2025
2:39
Birmingham 2023

Station by station, race by race

Individual Pro · Women Individual Open · Women Doubles Open · Women Doubles Open · Mixed Doubles Pro · Women Faster is lower
1000m SkiErg
4:39 3:32
50m Sled Push
2:53 1:08
50m Sled Pull
4:11 2:15
80m Burpee Broad Jump
4:23 2:02
1000m Row
4:46 3:49
200m Farmers Carry
2:08 1:10
100m Sandbag Lunges
4:28 2:15
Wall Balls
4:05 2:39