HYROX burpee broad jumps

Grouped by finish time rather than by labels like "competitive" or "intermediate". Find the row for the finish you are chasing and read across.

Doubles medians are faster because partners split the 80 m between them. A doubles time is a team result and cannot be read against a solo one.

Rank the eight stations by how far apart they push fast and slow finishers, and this one comes first. A sub-60-minute finisher posts a median of 2:50; a 90+ finisher posts 7:29. Same 80 m, 2.6× the time.

On most of these measures it sits just behind wall balls, which is the biggest station at 7.8% of a finish against this one's 6.6%. The difference that matters is not size, it is position. Wall balls is the last thing you do; this is the fourth of eight, and a blow-up here still has four runs and four stations to spread into. The tail shows it: the median is 6:10, the 99th percentile is 16:04 — 2.6× the median — and the slowest set we hold is 50:22, about 8× the median.

Fast athletes are fast at everything, so comparing raw station times tells you nothing. Removing each athlete's finish-time trend first leaves the real question: does being relatively good at one station predict being relatively good at another? For 6 of the 8 the strongest answer is positive. Two answer in the negative, and this is the more striking of them — because of what it is negatively linked to.

The largest number in that row is -0.157, against sled push — negative, and the most negative pair anywhere in our matrix. Athletes who are relatively good at the sled push tend to be relatively worse here. (Sandbag lunges is the other station whose strongest link is negative, but its partner is the SkiErg and the relationship is weaker.) The best positive relationship it has is rowing at +0.123, which is close to nothing: the SkiErg and rowing machine predict each other at +0.603, roughly 3.8× stronger than anything this station has in either direction.

A reading, not a finding. The obvious explanation is body mass — the athlete built to shift a loaded sled has more of themselves to lift 80 m, and the sled push is plausibly the station where raw mass helps most. That story fits, but we cannot test any part of it: we hold no height, weight or body-composition data. What is measured is the correlation. The explanation is a hypothesis, and you should treat it as one.

Either way the practical consequence is the same, and it is the same as wall balls: you cannot infer your number here from anything else you do. General fitness will not tell you, and neither will being strong. The only way to know what 80 m costs you at station 4 is to do 80 m with three stations and 3 km already behind you.

80 m, in every division. No load, no scaling, no difference between open and pro or men and women. Together with the rowing machine it is one of only two stations where nothing at all changes between divisions — everywhere else, something does.

The movement standard is the part that costs people time rather than the distance. Chest and thighs to the floor on every rep, both feet leaving and landing together on the jump, and the jump measured from where your feet land — so a rep that does not travel forward does not count toward the 80 m. Judges watch this station closely, and a no-rep here is a whole burpee's worth of work returned for nothing.

This station carries no load, but the five that do are listed in the weights, reps and distances guide.

Accepted practice rather than something we have measured. We separate the two on every page so you can weigh them differently.

The thing that makes this station dangerous is not its size — it is 6.6% of a finish, second to wall balls's 7.8%. It is that it is the fourth of eight. A wall-ball blow-up costs you wall balls. A blow-up here costs you the sled-free half of the race: four runs, and four stations, all taken on legs you spent at station 4.

That is the most plausible reading of why the field spreads 2.65× here, wider than anywhere else. The gap between a sub-60 finisher's 2:50 and a 90+ finisher's 7:29 is far more than a fitness difference of that size should produce over 80 m. Much of it is the cost of arriving with a pace you cannot hold and then paying for it for the rest of the race.

So the useful instruction is a conservative one, and it is unusual advice for a station this early: go slower than feels right. The rhythm that is correct at station 4 will feel comfortably under-cooked, because it has to survive four more runs. And since nothing else in your race predicts this station, the pace you plan should be one you have actually measured on tired legs rather than one you inferred.

Want to see what this station is allowed to cost inside a goal finish? The pace calculator splits a target time into per-station and per-run budgets.

Mistakes and takeaways

The short version, if you skim nothing else on this page.

Common questions

What is a good HYROX burpee broad jump time?

Solo median is 6:10 for 80 m, with the middle half of the field between 4:54 and 7:50 across 39,247 results. Athletes finishing in sub-60 minutes post a median of 2:50; those finishing 90+ post 7:29. That is a 2.6× difference — the widest ratio of any station on the course.

How long are the HYROX burpee broad jumps?

80 m, identical in every division. There is no load and no scaling: men, women, open and pro all cover the same distance with the same movement. That makes it one of only two stations where nothing at all changes between divisions — the other is the rowing machine.

Why do burpee broad jumps spread the field so much?

Because it is the station where pacing errors are least recoverable and it arrives early enough to poison the rest of the race. It swings 2.65× between the fastest and slowest finish brackets, the widest of the eight, against 1.29× for SkiErg. 3.65% of athletes take more than double the median. The gap between fastest and slowest brackets is 4:40, and unlike wall balls it is followed by four runs and four more stations.

Does being strong help with burpee broad jumps?

On our numbers, no — and if anything the opposite. Removing each athlete's finish-time trend across 39,247 solo results, the largest relationship this station has with any other is sled push at -0.157. It is negative, and it is the most negative pair anywhere in our matrix: athletes who are relatively good at the sled push tend to be relatively worse here. For scale, the SkiErg and rowing machine predict each other at +0.603, roughly 3.8× stronger than anything this station has. Nothing you are good at elsewhere tells you how this one will go.

Should I do big jumps or small ones?

Small ones, at a rhythm you can hold for the full distance. The station measures time over a fixed distance, so a longer jump only pays if it does not slow your turnover or cost you later — and at station 4, with four runs still to come, it usually does both. The common pattern among faster athletes is short, repeatable jumps with minimal standing, not maximal ones.