{"id":602946,"date":"2026-09-17T06:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602946\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T06:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:28:14","slug":"joanna-wietrzyks-puma-clothing-range-disappears-after-hyrox-race-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602946\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Wietrzyk\u2019s Puma clothing range disappears after Hyrox race incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
It is unclear when or why the references were removed. Wietrzyk still lists Puma Training in her Instagram biography.<\/p>\n
Hyrox athlete Joanna Wietrzyk was removed from Puma’s global website after an outbreak of “Poo-ma” jokes. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
Wietrzyk, 24, previously described becoming one of Puma\u2019s Hyrox ambassadors as \u201ca dream come true\u201d, according to the Daily Mail Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve raced in [Puma] shoes since the beginning,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cTo have them support me in my journey now is truly incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wietrzyk recently helped promote Puma\u2019s PWRMODE training collection and appeared at a shoe promotion in Beijing before the race, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n
The Melbourne athlete won the Hyrox event despite suffering bowel incontinence and continuing to compete, prompting criticism over hygiene and the organisers\u2019 decision not to intervene.<\/p>\n
Melbourne athlete Joanna Wietrzyk at the Hyrox event in Beijing. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n
Hyrox co-founder Moritz Fuerste later apologised and admitted the organisation had made a mistake.<\/p>\n
\u201cHyrox made a mistake by not reacting immediately during the race,\u201d Fuerste said.<\/p>\n
He said event procedures and the rulebook were changed after the incident, with new rules intended to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n
Wietrzyk\u2019s coach Chris Bayens has defended the athlete and urged people to stop the \u201chatred and personal attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cDecisions were made under competition conditions by an athlete, judges and officials, all responding to a situation none of them could reasonably have prepared for,\u201d Bayens wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose decisions can be reviewed and lessons can be taken from them. But judging someone\u2019s intent, character or morality through the clarity of hindsight is neither fair nor honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wietrzyk has not publicly commented beyond a since-deleted post after the race saying, \u201cA win is a win\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is unclear when or why the references were removed. Wietrzyk still lists Puma Training in her Instagram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1081,74,49638,1135,4177,36334,4463,39426,1741,208485,2837,71,14805,671,15896,111,139,69,1642,1523,54831,7798,29544,57301,5196,213,2735,295690,297059],"class_list":["post-602946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-accident","tag-after","tag-athlete","tag-australian","tag-beijing","tag-bowel","tag-brand","tag-clothing","tag-controversy","tag-disappears","tag-during","tag-from","tag-hyrox","tag-incident","tag-joanna","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-online","tag-over","tag-puma","tag-race","tag-range","tag-references","tag-removed","tag-sports","tag-store","tag-wietrzyk","tag-wietrzyks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602946","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=602946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}