Hong Beom-seok, Amoti, and Minho ran together...High Rocks First Seoul Race Successful

Nov 11, 2025

Hong Beom-seok, Amoti, and Minho ran together...High Rocks First Seoul Race Successful



HYROX, an indoor fitness competition, successfully completed its first Seoul race. The competition was held at COEX in Seoul from the 8th to the 9th with more than 6,000 racers and 5,747 spectators.

Josh Van Geeland of the United Kingdom and Claire Nesbitt of Hong Kong won the men's and women's professional categories in 54 minutes 57 seconds and 1 hour 6 minutes 44 seconds, respectively.

Hong Beom-seok, Amoti, and Minho ran together...High Rocks First Seoul Race Successful
Hong Bum-suk, a High-Rox Ambassador and runner-up in Physical:100 Season 2, competed in four races: men's open singles, men's open double, mixed double, and men's relay, winning in the men's open single category with 58:35, men's mixed double category with 56:51 and men's relay category with 49:54 to finish second in the men's double professional category with 52:57.




In addition, Amoti (Kim Jae-hong), the winner of Physical:100 Season 2, participated in the mixed double category with cross-fit player Choi Seung-yeon and took second place with 59:05, while Shiny Minho took third place with 57:20 in the mixed relay.

Hong Beom-seok, Amoti, and Minho ran together...High Rocks First Seoul Race Successful
The youngest participant in the race was 16, completing the mixed double category, and the oldest was 67, completing the men's open double category. The number of foreign participants has also increased significantly. In the last Incheon competition, 10% of all participants were foreigners, but this Seoul competition more than doubled to 23%. Seven athletes with disabilities participated in the adaptive category, which increased significantly from one in the last Incheon competition.

Hong said, `I could feel the enthusiasm of many athletes and spectators at the first High Rocks Seoul race. I could realize that High Rocks has become a major fitness event in Korea"It is very rewarding as a Hyrox ambassador to grow Korea's fitness culture and create a healthy sports community through Hyrox. "




Meanwhile, Hyrox, which started in Germany in 2017 with 650 participants, has grown rapidly and become one of the global fitness competitions. More than 961 racers participated in the first Asia-Pacific High Rocks competition held in Hong Kong in 2023, and more than 10,000 racers participated in the High Rocks competition in Brisbane in March this year.

In Korea, starting with the High Rocks Incheon competition last year, the High Rocks Seoul competition has been held four times, and the next domestic competition will be held in Incheon on May 16 and 17 next year.






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.