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South Africa / Cape Town 2025 / Individual Open · Women / Season 8 (2025/26)

Melissa Van Der Merwe

RSA W 35-39 n = 431
Finish · net time
2:07:21
+25:10 v median 1:42:11
Course +2:02 v season average ±0:52 · 203 athletes
Women
358/431
35-39
65/78
Field beaten
17%

The race, in three figures

Field beaten
13%
Runs
29%
Stations
Biggest gain
50m Sled Pull
−0:28
v median
170/431
Rank
Biggest loss
80m Burpee Broad Jump
+4:00
v median
377/431
Rank

The race, in words

2:07:21 at Cape Town 2025 put Melissa Van Der Merwe 358th of 431 women in the Open division.

If there was time left out there, it was on the burpee broad jumps, 4:00 behind the median. The race faded late: the second half went 1:43 worse against the middle of the field than the first. 11:05 in the roxzone was slower than 87% of the field.

Cape Town cost the whole field time: about 2:02 more than the average race this season, going by 203 athletes who raced both.

Eight blocks

Bar = field beaten · tick = median

  1. Block 01 10:46
    Running 1 5:12
    v median +1:03
    1000m SkiErg 5:34
    v median +0:17
  2. Block 02 10:44
    Running 2 7:42
    v median +1:37
    50m Sled Push 3:02
    v median +0:05
  3. Block 03 14:14
    Running 3 8:15
    v median +1:49
    50m Sled Pull 5:59
    v median −0:28
  4. Block 04 19:32
    Running 4 8:23
    v median +1:51
    80m Burpee Broad Jump 11:09
    v median +4:00
  5. Block 05 14:53
    Running 5 9:16
    v median +2:29
    1000m Row 5:37
    v median −0:05
  6. Block 06 11:08
    Running 6 8:55
    v median +2:24
    200m Farmers Carry 2:13
    v median −0:01
  7. Block 07 16:03
    Running 7 9:03
    v median +2:35
    100m Sandbag Lunges 7:00
    v median +1:37
  8. Block 08 19:02
    Running 8 10:21
    v median +3:02
    Wall Balls 8:41
    v median +1:28

Roxzone, per block

Approach · Exit 11:05

B1 · 1000m SkiErg
1:02
0:06 0:56
B2 · 50m Sled Push
1:15
0:10 1:05
B3 · 50m Sled Pull
1:26
0:23 1:03
B4 · 80m Burpee Broad Jump
2:27
1:08 1:19
B5 · 1000m Row
1:10
0:34 0:36
B6 · 200m Farmers Carry
2:02
1:30 0:32
B7 · 100m Sandbag Lunges
1:42
1:24 0:18
B8 · Wall Balls
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No mats

Against the middle of your field

Women · n = 425

A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 425 women who finished.

20:00 SkiErg Sled Push Sled Pull Burpee Broad Jump Row Farmers Carry Sandbag Lunges Finish Middle ↑ You ahead ↓ Field ahead 25:25
You ahead Field ahead Middle half · 25th–75th Crossed the middle · 0 Finish · 25:25 behind

Elsewhere

The board

Individual Open · Women at Cape Town 2025

See this race on page 8
Other races by Melissa Van Der Merwe
Source Unofficial
Event
Cape Town 2025
Division
HYROX
Contest
H_LR3MS4JIC31
Measured against
Women · n = 431