{"id":600823,"date":"2026-09-15T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600823\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T06:26:10","slug":"hyrox-apologises-after-australian-athlete-soils-herself-mid-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600823\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyrox apologises after Australian athlete soils herself mid-race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Hyrox has reportedly changed its rules after allowing an Australian athlete who soiled herself mid-race to finish, and win, the event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The incident involved Australian world record champion Joanna Wietrzyk, who competed in the indoor endurance fitness event in Beijing over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Images and video was shared showing faecal matter running down her legs as she completed events including the sled push, rowing machine and medicine ball throw. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Following the race, Wietrzyk posted a now-deleted Instagram post, saying: &#8220;Go hard or go home\u2026 a win is a win. In all seriousness, thank you for all the support. I\u2019ll be back soon x.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In a statement, the organiser of the event confirmed that contaminated equipment was removed, affected race lanes were closed for sanitation, and carpet replacement and deep-cleaning procedures were scheduled overnight before the rest of the participants began the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In response to criticism about letting the woman finish the event, Hyrox co-founder Moritz F\u00fcrste apologised to all those affected &#8220;directly or indirectly&#8221; by the incident and said the brand was working to make immediate rule changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hyrox has reportedly changed its rules after allowing an Australian athlete who soiled herself mid-race to finish, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2300,85,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-600823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asia","tag-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}