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Germany / Cologne 2025 / Doubles Open · Men / Season 7 (2024/25)

Sacha Mertz & Tim Nicolai — Cologne 2025

M MU29 n = 300
Finish · net time
1:35:48
+22:06 v median 1:13:42
Course −0:42 v season average ±0:18 · 636 teams
Men
283/300
MU29
104
Field beaten
6%

The race, in three figures

Biggest gain
200m Farmers Carry
+0:15
v median
262/300
Rank
Biggest loss
Wall Balls
+1:38
v median
285/300
Rank

The race, in words

1:35:48 at Cologne 2025 put Sacha Mertz & Tim Nicolai 283rd of 300 men's teams in the Doubles Open division.

The wall balls cost the most time: 1:38 slower than the median. The race faded late: the second half went 1:50 worse against the middle of the field than the first.

This was a quick course. Against their other races this season, the people who raced Cologne gained about 0:42.

Eight blocks

Bar = field beaten · tick = median

  1. Block 01 10:41
    Running 1 6:14
    v median +1:13
    v median +0:31
  2. Block 02 8:31
    Running 2 6:11
    v median +1:27
    v median +0:34
  3. Block 03 10:12
    Running 3 6:40
    v median +1:42
    v median +0:28
  4. Block 04 11:36
    Running 4 6:55
    v median +1:51
    v median +1:26
  5. Block 05 12:04
    Running 5 7:01
    v median +1:50
    1000m Row 5:03
    v median +0:37
  6. Block 06 8:44
    Running 6 6:52
    v median +1:43
    v median +0:15
  7. Block 07 11:27
    Running 7 6:59
    v median +1:50
    v median +1:03
  8. Block 08 14:38
    Running 8 8:37
    v median +2:33
    Wall Balls 6:01
    v median +1:38

Roxzone, per block

Approach · Exit

B1 · 1000m SkiErg
0:54
0:02 0:52
B2 · 50m Sled Push
0:24
0:08 0:16
B3 · 50m Sled Pull
0:48
0:14 0:34
B4 · 80m Burpee Broad Jump
1:51
0:18 1:33
B5 · 1000m Row
1:14
0:43 0:31
B6 · 200m Farmers Carry
1:20
1:11 0:09
B7 · 100m Sandbag Lunges
1:32
1:02 0:30
B8 · Wall Balls
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No mats

Against the middle of your field

Men · n = 298

A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 298 men's teams who finished.

10:00 10:00 20:00 SkiErg Sled Push Sled Pull Burpee Broad Jump Row Farmers Carry Sandbag Lunges Finish Middle ↑ You ahead ↓ Field ahead 22:06
You ahead Field ahead Middle half · 25th–75th Crossed the middle · 0 Finish · 22:06 behind

Elsewhere

The board

Doubles Open · Men at Cologne 2025

See this race on page 18
Source Official
Event
Cologne 2025
Division
HYROX DOUBLES
Contest
HD_LR3MS4JIA56
Measured against
Men · n = 300