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

Gemma Shales & Melanie Sheperd — Cape Town 2025

Gemma Shales Melanie Sheperd
W 40-44 n = 723
Finish · net time
1:41:44
+7:06 v median 1:34:38
Course +8:42 v season average ±2:41 · 392 teams
Women
457/723
40-44
62/109
Field beaten
37%

The race, in three figures

Field beaten
48%
Runs
15%
Stations
Biggest gain
1000m Row
−0:10
v median
264/723
Rank
Biggest loss
Wall Balls
+3:18
v median
673/723
Rank

The race, in words

1:41:44 at Cape Town 2025 put Gemma Shales & Melanie Sheperd 457th of 723 women's teams in the Doubles Open division.

The runs carried this race: faster than 48% of the field over the eight kilometres, against 15% on the stations. The wall balls cost the most time: 3:18 slower than the median. The race faded late: the second half went 1:21 worse against the middle of the field than the first.

This was a slow day in Cape Town. Measured against their other races this season, the people who raced here lost about 8:42.

Eight blocks

Bar = field beaten · tick = median

  1. Block 01 9:31
    Running 1 4:37
    v median −0:09
    1000m SkiErg 4:54
    v median +0:05
  2. Block 02 8:50
    Running 2 6:42
    v median +0:02
    50m Sled Push 2:08
    v median +0:21
  3. Block 03 13:20
    Running 3 7:14
    v median +0:21
    50m Sled Pull 6:06
    v median +1:26
  4. Block 04 13:22
    Running 4 7:19
    v median +0:24
    80m Burpee Broad Jump 6:03
    v median +1:24
  5. Block 05 12:27
    Running 5 7:13
    v median +0:09
    1000m Row 5:14
    v median −0:10
  6. Block 06 9:22
    Running 6 7:14
    v median +0:16
    200m Farmers Carry 2:08
    v median +0:18
  7. Block 07 11:40
    Running 7 6:58
    v median +0:00
    100m Sandbag Lunges 4:42
    v median +0:51
  8. Block 08 16:09
    Running 8 7:56
    v median +0:16
    Wall Balls 8:13
    v median +3:18

Roxzone, per block

Approach · Exit 7:11

B1 · 1000m SkiErg
0:48
0:05 0:43
B2 · 50m Sled Push
0:44
0:06 0:38
B3 · 50m Sled Pull
1:04
0:23 0:41
B4 · 80m Burpee Broad Jump
1:05
0:46 0:19
B5 · 1000m Row
0:51
0:24 0:27
B6 · 200m Farmers Carry
1:35
1:05 0:30
B7 · 100m Sandbag Lunges
1:02
0:46 0:16
B8 · Wall Balls
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No mats

Against the middle of your field

Women · n = 704

A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 704 women's teams who finished.

10:00 10:00 SkiErg Sled Push Sled Pull Burpee Broad Jump Row Farmers Carry Sandbag Lunges Finish Middle ↑ You ahead ↓ Field ahead 7:17
You ahead Field ahead Middle half · 25th–75th Crossed the middle · 3 Finish · 7:17 behind

Elsewhere

The board

Doubles Open · Women at Cape Town 2025

See this race on page 10
Source Official
Event
Cape Town 2025
Division
HYROX DOUBLES
Contest
HD_LR3MS4JIC31
Measured against
Women · n = 723