Sled Push in HYROX: what is a good time for your category?

A good Sled Push time needs context: sex, division, age and the edition you raced. The same number can be among the fastest in one group and close to the middle in another.

This guide uses 4,984 entries across five editions in Brazil and 310,350 across 99 editions outside Brazil, with a station split available and meeting the filters described below. These are Open and Pro singles entries; the same person may appear in more than one race.

The benchmarks help you interpret your result and decide which questions to explore in a full assessment. They describe the available archive, rather than setting an ideal time for every athlete.

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What changes in the Sled Push between Open and Pro?

The Sled Push is HYROX's second station: 50 metres pushing the sled, after the second run. The loads below include the sled itself and follow the official HYROX Brazil overview, accessed on October 25, 2026.

The load helps explain why Open and Pro need their own benchmarks. Even the two groups using 152 kg have different participants and competitive contexts. These tables are not a conversion formula between divisions. For that question, see Pro or Open: how to choose your division.

How to read the benchmarks

All times are in minutes:seconds. A lower time means a faster recorded station.

• Fastest 25% benchmark: the mark separating approximately the fastest quarter of entries. It indicates a strong station performance, without implying elite status across the whole race.
• Middle of the group: half the entries fell on either side of this time. It helps you place your result among comparable performances.
• Central range: the interval between the fastest 25% benchmark and the upper limit shown. It covers approximately the middle half of entries. A time above it calls for context; on its own, it does not identify your main limitation.

Ties and rounding can slightly change these proportions. Being below or above a benchmark neither explains the cause of the performance nor demonstrates how many seconds you could recover.

Overall benchmarks: Brazil and other countries separately

The next tables combine ages within each sex and division. Use them as a starting point, then find your age group. Brazil and other countries refer to the race location, not the nationality of the participants.

Brazil

Outside Brazil

The Brazilian set covers races from September 20, 2025 to October 18, 2026; the international set, from July 19, 2025 to August 9, 2026. Both use the 2025/26 season and the start of 2026/27, with partial coverage. The mix of editions, ages and participation frequency differs between the sets.

A lower benchmark outside Brazil therefore does not demonstrate that athletes from one country are better or that Brazilian courses are slower. To assess your execution, start with a comparison within the same edition, when available.

Find your age group

Choose the group you raced in. In the time columns, the first value is the middle of the group and the second is the fastest 25% benchmark. Alongside them, we show how many entries and editions support the comparison.

Women's Open · Men's Open · Women's Pro · Men's Pro

When we show a benchmark: both marks require at least 50 entries across three editions. With at least 20 entries across two editions, we show only the middle of the group, with an asterisk (*), as an initial indication. Otherwise, we show “No benchmark”. These limits are editorial coverage criteria; they do not represent a statistical confidence percentage.

Reading example: “3:20 / 2:40” means a middle-of-group time of 3min20s and a fastest-group benchmark of 2min40s. This only explains the format and does not represent an actual category.

Women's Open by age

Men's Open by age

Women's Pro by age

Men's Pro by age

Ages use the bands recorded in the results. Entries without an interpretable age appear only in the overall view: 6 in Brazil and 84 outside Brazil. A cell without benchmarks means there is insufficient support in that subset, not that the category does not exist.

A real example: 3min57s on the Sled Push

In the worked São Paulo example from October 17–18, 2026, a men's Open entry aged 35–39 recorded 3min57s on the Sled Push. Among the 245 entries from the same edition, sex, division and age group with every split complete, the middle of the group was 3min25s.

That places the station 32 seconds above that specific benchmark. It is a useful question for a race review. It does not mean those 32 seconds are automatically available to save, nor does it demonstrate a cause such as insufficient strength or a technical mistake.

This subgroup of 245 applies an additional whole-race completeness filter. It is not the same population as the tables in this guide, which require a valid Sled Push split and an eligible finish result. The comparison stays within the same edition, and the example's record was checked against the official source. Explore the other parts in Beyond your finish time.

Your Sled Push time tells only part of the story

Once you have placed your station within the group, look at what happened around it:

1. Confirm the edition and category. A training time on different equipment or flooring is not directly equivalent to the official split.
2. Look at the corresponding runs before and after. The sequence can raise questions about effort distribution, but it does not measure physiological fatigue by itself.
3. Keep the station separate from transitions. This study uses the “50m Sled Push” field. Entrances, exits and Roxzone were not added to it.
4. Consider the whole race. A relatively fast station can coexist with difficulties elsewhere. The station taking the most minutes is not necessarily the biggest opportunity to improve.

The database does not measure force applied to the sled, floor resistance, technique, recovery status or individual strategy. We do not adjust the benchmarks for these factors or attribute differences between cities to them. To discuss preparation, take your race sequence and personal context to your coach.

From a general benchmark to your own race

The tables show where a group of entries stands. The next step is to understand the entry you want to analyse.

Find my result in the hub. Choose from the available races, confirm the edition and category, then open the corresponding preview.

• Free search and preview: find the entry and see the available indicators, without registration, email or WhatsApp at this stage. The content depends on each race's data.
• Paid full assessment: explore the available splits in more depth, connecting runs, stations, transitions and comparisons. Check availability and price before buying.

See also how the HYROX assessment works and what makes a good overall race time.

Sources, sample and study limits

This descriptive analysis uses the OUTLIER archive accessed on October 25, 2026, with the edition-date scope frozen in the October 22, 2026 review. Original sources are the official results for 2025/26 and 2026/27.

• Scope: men's and women's Open and Pro singles entries across five Brazilian editions and 99 outside Brazil. Doubles, relay, Adaptive, Elite, Invitational and identified championship contexts are excluded from these comparisons.
• Identity and duplication: we retained the earlier category review, removing aggregate Overall and Week views to avoid recounting results by day. Six editions with source identity discrepancies were excluded entirely. A documented sex and ranking correction in Miami was applied only to the analysis, without changing the database.
• Eligible finish result: a source identifier, positive ranking, finish time between 45 minutes and five hours, and no flagged source inconsistency. Times outside the screening limits were set aside for review; the filter does not declare those entries invalid.
• Eligible station: one station-type “50m Sled Push” record at position 4 in the sequence, with a positive time below the finish time. The source key prevents two rows at the same position. We excluded explicit station penalty flags where present, and the Taipei split unavailable in the current official source. The absence of a flag does not certify the absence of every penalty.
• Calculation: percentiles were calculated in seconds across eligible entries in each group, rounded to the nearest second. Age benchmarks use the recorded age band without inferring individual age. Overall benchmarks were not calculated by averaging city medians.
• Extreme-value review: we reopened the nine records with splits below 30 seconds or above 30 minutes and located the same entries in the official edition, sex and division lists, also checking age. Eight station times matched the archive. In Taipei, the stored 31min34s split was absent from the current source, as was the station entrance mark: we removed that entry from the Sled Push sample without estimating a replacement time. All nine finish times matched. Confirming a published record does not certify complete station execution or explain exceptionally short or long times.
• Sensitivity: eight source-confirmed extreme splits remained after review. Recalculating without them did not change the middle of the group in any displayed benchmark. Removing the Taipei case also preserved all displayed time benchmarks. Removing records with discrepancies in the sum of all splits changed overall medians by up to 1 second. One of the eight cases had nine minutes of penalties in runs 2 and 3, with no Sled Push penalty displayed; we did not subtract that penalty from the station.
• Source status: historical provisional-result notices were not used alone to remove finish results already reconciled in the earlier review. The Rome list displayed “Unofficial Results”; the values describe the publication consulted, without certifying final ratification. We did not individually reopen every record in the archive.
• Coverage: the archive is neither a HYROX census nor a random sample of all athletes. Larger races and people with more entries carry more weight. Totals do not represent unique athletes.

The study offers descriptive benchmarks to interpret your race. It is not a strength test, physiological diagnosis, prediction of progress or promise of time savings.