Seven Golds in Stockholm: Xendurance Athletes at the Hyrox World Championships

The Hyrox World Championships returned to Stockholm from June 18–21, 2026, and for the Xendurance team, it turned out to be one of those weekends that's going to take a while to fully sink in.

Forty athletes made the trip to Sweden. Across the Solo, Doubles, Mixed Doubles, Elite, and Adaptive categories, they came away with seven first-place finishes, a string of podiums, and top-5 results spread throughout the field — at an event where every single person on the start line has already earned the right to be there.

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Seven Golds

World Championships are where preparation meets pressure, and the Hyrox Worlds is about as unforgiving an environment as functional fitness has to offer. This isn't a regional event with a friendly field — it draws the best athletes from across the globe, all of whom have qualified to be there, all of whom have built their season around this one weekend. Which makes what the Xendurance squad achieved across those four days in Stockholm all the more worth celebrating.

Jude Reynolds took gold in the Solo category, adding silver in Doubles alongside his partner — an individual world title that stands as one of the weekend's standout performances. Sam Bilbie and Emma Reeve won gold together in Doubles, with Sam also finishing 3rd in Solo, making it a remarkable double-event campaign for both of them.

Further down the Doubles results, the Xendurance presence was remarkable. Simon Passmore, Hakan Burton, and Ciaran Parkinson all took gold in their respective Doubles partnerships, while Myles McNulty and Dermot McNulty won theirs together. In Mixed Doubles, Guy Portlock and Sabine Von Salis rounded out the gold medals — the seventh world title across the squad in a single event weekend.

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Depth Across the Field

The golds are the headline, but the performances across the rest of the Xendurance squad tell an equally compelling story about the standard of athlete that's now associated with this brand.

Emily Heard put in arguably the weekend's most consistent showing, finishing 4th in both Solo and Doubles — an athlete operating right at the edge of the podium across two completely separate race efforts. Steven Price finished 4th in Solo, Sam Parsons 4th in Doubles, and Ben Vickers, Alan Strachan, and Gwen Fennel all came home 5th in the Doubles category. Ollie Russell finished 4th in the Elite 15 Doubles, which is as competitive a bracket as the entire event produces. Michael Molloy took silver in Mixed Doubles, and Francis Loye claimed 2nd in Solo Adaptive — a result that deserves as much recognition as any other from the weekend.

Beyond the top 5s, athletes like Niamh Young (34th Solo, 9th Doubles), Graeme Slater (9th Doubles), Martin Garnett (11th Doubles), and Jim Peskett and Andy Ball (both 16th in Doubles) all represented at a genuinely world-class level. Forty athletes competing at the Hyrox World Championships is no small thing — every result in that list was earned on an international stage.

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What It Takes

Racing at the Hyrox World Championships asks a lot of the human body. Eight stations, 1km runs in between, and the kind of sustained effort across SkiErg, sled pushes, burpee broad jumps, and wall balls that turns race-day preparation into something you either got right or didn't. Lactic acid accumulates whether you're ready for it or not — the question is how well you've prepared your body to handle it when it does.

For the Xendurance athletes in Stockholm, that preparation included Lactic Acid Buffer (LAB), a product developed specifically for the physiological demands of high-intensity endurance efforts. By helping to buffer the build-up of lactic acid, LAB supports athletes in sustaining output through the latter stages of a race — the part where events like Hyrox are so often decided.

In a field this competitive, the margins are small. Getting the nutrition right is part of how you close them.

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Looking Ahead

Forty athletes. Seven world titles. A full spread of podiums and top-10 finishes across nearly every category on offer. The 2026/2027 season starts soon, and Hong Kong is calling.

Congratulations to every Xendurance athlete who raced at the World Championships — it was a weekend to be proud of.

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Full results:

Athlete	Result
Jude Reynolds	1st Solo, 2nd Doubles
Sam Bilbie	1st Doubles, 3rd Solo
Emma Reeve	1st Doubles
Simon Passmore	1st Doubles
Hakan Burton	1st Doubles, 19th Mixed Doubles
Ciaran Parkinson	1st Doubles, 7th Mixed Doubles
Myles McNulty & Dermot McNulty	1st Doubles, 11th Mixed Doubles
Guy Portlock & Sabine Von Salis	1st Mixed Doubles
Michael Molloy	2nd Mixed Doubles
Emily Heard	4th Solo, 4th Doubles
Steven Price	4th Solo
Ollie Russell	4th Elite 15 Doubles
Sam Parsons	4th Doubles
Ben Vickers	5th Doubles
Alan Strachan	5th Doubles
Gwen Fennel	5th Doubles
Francis Loye	2nd Solo Adaptive
Niamh Young	34th Solo, 9th Doubles
Graeme Slater	9th Doubles
Martin Garnett	11th Doubles
Nicky Akroyd	11th Mixed Doubles
Romy de Bruijne	14th Doubles, 65th Mixed Doubles
Reinien Boven	14th Doubles
Jim Peskett	16th Doubles
Andy Ball	16th Doubles
Brandon McGuiness	29th Doubles, 41st Mixed Doubles
Molly Rimmer	31st Doubles
Dagmar van Eijk	23rd Solo
Gerry Miell	47th Solo, 32nd Doubles
Joey Patchitt	35th Solo
Mack Engbers	44th Doubles
Leon Roos	44th Doubles
Laura Arnfield	19th Mixed Doubles
Mel Ronan	22nd Mixed Doubles
Louise Little	41st Doubles
Danny Sevilla	DNF Solo