Cardiff's Principality Stadium to host Hyrox event

Cardiff's Principality Stadium stages rugby and football matches in addition to concerts, motorsport events, boxing fights and equestrian events

Cardiff's Principality Stadium will host the first ever Hyrox event held in Wales, organisers have confirmed.

The increasingly popular 'fitness racing' event will take place across three days between 30 May and 1 June, 2025 in the Welsh capital's 74,000-seater stadium.

Participants run 1km before completing one fitness exercise, including 1km on a standing ski machine, 50m of sled push and 80m burpee jumps.

Competitors - either professional or everyday fitness enthusiasts - repeat the process until they have performed eight 1km runs and the eight workouts, which also include a 50m sled pull, 1km indoor rowing, carrying a kettlebell 200m, 100m lunges carrying a sandbag, and 100 throws and catches of a medicine ball off a wall.

Competitors can take part as a personal challenge or as a professional. They can also compete as a pair in the doubles category or as part of a quartet in the team relay category.

The race format is consistent globally; Glasgow hosts an event from 12 to 16 March, with Malaga, Copenhagen, Shanghai, Cologne, Miami and Bangkok among the other cities to host an event over the coming months.

Christian Toetzke, alongside Olympic champion hockey player Moritz Fürste, set up the first race in their home country of Germany in 2017.

The inaugural event saw 650 participants - but Hyrox now say almost 200,000 competitors are dotted around the world.

In London, the first race in 2021 saw 522 participants. Jump to 2023 and more than 24,000 people took part across two races.