Skip to content
Athlete South Africa

Ruwan Bester

Since 2024, Ruwan Bester has raced HYROX 5 times at 4 events across 2 categories, the mixed Doubles Open most often (4). 1:01:20 at Cape Town 1 2026 is the fastest of 4 in the mixed Doubles Open, 10th of 400 mixed teams and inside the top 10%. With Bernette Bester both times, that is 4:53 quicker on the clock than the first of them, at Cape Town 2024.

Best finish, by category
Doubles Open · Mixed
1:01:20
Cape Town 1 2026
Doubles Open · Men
1:05:43
Cape Town 1 2026

Progress against the field

From Johannesburg 2025 to Cape Town 1 2026, the field gained 0:37 on Ruwan Bester and Bernette Bester.

Over the same races everyone got 8:04 quicker, so 7:27 faster on the clock looks better than it was.

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

5 races · 4 events

  1. Cape Town 1
    3 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:01:20 PB
    10/400
    Beat 98%
    ↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Bernette Bester 0:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓

    7:27 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 8:04 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:37 behind the field.

    Compare these two →
  2. Cape Town 1
    3 Apr 2026
    Doubles Open · Men
    1:05:43 PB
    12/308
    Beat 96%
  3. Johannesburg
    29 Nov 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:08:47
    23/594
    Beat 96%
  4. Cape Town
    19 Jul 2025
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:10:37
    63/547
    Beat 89%
  5. Cape Town
    21 Sep 2024
    Doubles Open · Mixed
    1:06:13
    12/153
    Beat 92%

Personal bests, by station

3:43
Cape Town 2024
1:12
Cape Town 2024
2:38
Cape Town 1 2026
2:32
Cape Town 1 2026
4:08
Cape Town 1 2026
1:22
Cape Town 2025
2:11
Cape Town 2024
3:25
Cape Town 1 2026

Station by station, race by race

Doubles Open · Mixed Faster is lower
1000m SkiErg
4:09 3:43
50m Sled Push
1:45 1:12
50m Sled Pull
3:30 2:38
80m Burpee Broad Jump
2:59 2:42
1000m Row
4:44 4:15
200m Farmers Carry
1:45 1:22
100m Sandbag Lunges
2:58 2:11
Wall Balls
4:24 3:25