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South Africa / Cape Town 2025 / Doubles Open · Men / Season 8 (2025/26)

Taiba Balaka & Siya Mbande — Cape Town 2025

Taiba Balaka Siya Mbande
M 25-29 n = 477
Finish · net time
1:26:26
+6:07 v median 1:20:19
Course +4:17 v season average ±1:47 · 227 teams
Men
315/477
25-29
83/123
Field beaten
34%

The race, in three figures

Field beaten
46%
Runs
18%
Stations
Biggest gain
100m Sandbag Lunges
−0:02
v median
228/477
Rank
Biggest loss
Wall Balls
+1:25
v median
422/477
Rank

The race, in words

1:26:26 at Cape Town 2025 put Taiba Balaka & Siya Mbande 315th of 477 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.

The runs carried this race: faster than 46% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 18% on the stations. The wall balls cost the most time: 1:25 slower than the median. A harder second half: 4:12 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.

This was a slow day in Cape Town. Measured against their other races this season, the people who raced here lost about 4:17.

Eight blocks

Bar = field beaten · tick = median

  1. Block 01 7:50
    Running 1 3:33
    v median −0:26
    1000m SkiErg 4:17
    v median +0:19
  2. Block 02 7:06
    Running 2 5:12
    v median −0:21
    50m Sled Push 1:54
    v median +0:18
  3. Block 03 9:52
    Running 3 5:52
    v median −0:05
    50m Sled Pull 4:00
    v median +0:48
  4. Block 04 10:09
    Running 4 6:09
    v median +0:09
    80m Burpee Broad Jump 4:00
    v median +0:47
  5. Block 05 11:06
    Running 5 6:32
    v median +0:19
    1000m Row 4:34
    v median +0:01
  6. Block 06 9:17
    Running 6 6:50
    v median +0:49
    200m Farmers Carry 2:27
    v median +0:52
  7. Block 07 9:59
    Running 7 6:27
    v median +0:27
    100m Sandbag Lunges 3:32
    v median −0:02
  8. Block 08 13:37
    Running 8 7:24
    v median +1:01
    Wall Balls 6:13
    v median +1:25

Roxzone, per block

Approach · Exit 7:41

B1 · 1000m SkiErg
0:37
0:05 0:32
B2 · 50m Sled Push
0:42
0:05 0:37
B3 · 50m Sled Pull
0:52
0:14 0:38
B4 · 80m Burpee Broad Jump
1:21
0:41 0:40
B5 · 1000m Row
1:05
0:27 0:38
B6 · 200m Farmers Carry
1:44
1:05 0:39
B7 · 100m Sandbag Lunges
1:17
0:56 0:21
B8 · Wall Balls
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No mats

Against the middle of your field

Men · n = 460

A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 460 men's teams who finished.

10:00 5:00 5:00 10:00 SkiErg Sled Push Sled Pull Burpee Broad Jump Row Farmers Carry Sandbag Lunges Finish Middle ↑ You ahead ↓ Field ahead 6:18
You ahead Field ahead Middle half · 25th–75th Crossed the middle · 1 Finish · 6:18 behind

Elsewhere

The board

Doubles Open · Men at Cape Town 2025

See this race on page 7
Source Official
Event
Cape Town 2025
Division
HYROX DOUBLES
Contest
HD_LR3MS4JIC31
Measured against
Men · n = 477