MORE than 6,000 athletes descended on the Principality Stadium over the weekend as Cardiff hosted Wales’s first Hyrox event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three-day event saw 6,042 people tackle the world’s largest mass-participation fitness race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hyrox<\/a> was founded in Germany in 2018 by race organiser Christian Toetzke and Olympian Moritz F\u00fcrste. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since then, 219 races have been held worldwide – 73 of them this year alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Cardiff event featured 14 divisions and attracted competitors of all ages and abilities, with tickets costing around \u00a3120.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sport combines functional fitness and endurance, with athletes completing a one-kilometre run followed by a workout station repeated eight times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The workouts consist of a 1,000m ski, 50m sled push, 50 sled pull, 80m burpee jump, 1,000m row, 200m farmers’ carry, 100m lunges and, finally, 100 wall balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The high-intensity challenge has grown rapidly in popularity, attracting both elite and amateur athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cardiff has now joined global cities like New York, Paris and Hong Kong in hosting the Hyrox race. The next will be held in Chicago on June 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch<\/a> Find out more and meet some of the racers in this video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n