Hyrox Geneva 2026: Start Times, Palexpo, Travel and Race Day
The provisional schedule for all thirteen division windows at Palexpo on 9–11 October 2026, when your individual start time actually arrives, how to reach the venue, and what check-in refuses to accept.
Palexpo, three days, thirteen division windows — and an individual start time that does not exist yet.
Hyrox Geneva opens the Swiss season on 9–11 October 2026 in Halls 4 and 5 of Palexpo, a ten-minute walk from Geneva airport's railway station. This is the logistics half of the race: when your division runs, when you actually get your own start time, how to reach the venue, what you must have in your hand at check-in, and what is still unpublished. The training half lives in our Hyrox Geneva training plan.
In short: The published schedule is a division window, not your start time — your individual slot is linked roughly three days before the event, and it cannot be changed afterwards. Check-in needs a physical ID; a photo of one is refused, and nobody can check in on your behalf. Race-day registration is now published: 06:30–19:45 Friday and Saturday, 06:30–18:45 Sunday. Take the train to Genève-Aéroport and walk ten minutes rather than driving. The Geneva course map and laps to run are still officially TBA.
Status: 8 October 2026. Schedule, venue, race-day registration, relay briefing and ceremony times checked against the official Hyrox Geneva event page; access and parking from Palexpo. The schedule is marked "subject to change" by Hyrox — re-check the event page before you travel.
Hyrox Geneva 2026 at a glance
| Event | Let's Go Fitness Hyrox Geneva |
| Dates | Friday 9 – Sunday 11 October 2026 |
| Venue | Palexpo, Halls 4 + 5 |
| Address | Route François-Peyrot 30, 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex, Geneva |
| Divisions racing | Hyrox and Hyrox Pro (women, men), Doubles (women, men, mixed), Doubles Pro (women, men), Relay |
| Provisional schedule | Published, marked subject to change |
| Individual start time | Linked approx. 3 days before the event |
| Course map / laps | Still TBA on the official event page |
| Athlete registration times | Fri 06:30–19:45 · Sat 06:30–19:45 · Sun 06:30–18:45 |
| Tickets | Sold through the official event page |
Geneva is the season opener in Switzerland, and the only Swiss race until Basel in February 2027.
The provisional race schedule
Hyrox publishes a per-division window for each day. Note how differently the days are shaped: Friday runs thirteen short windows back to back, Saturday and Sunday hand three or four divisions much longer blocks because that is where the field is biggest.
Friday, 9 October 2026
| Division | Window |
|---|---|
| Hyrox Men | 08:00 – 09:30 |
| Hyrox Adaptive Men | 08:00 – 09:30 |
| Hyrox Men Pro | 10:20 – 12:00 |
| Hyrox Women Pro | 12:30 – 13:00 |
| Hyrox Doubles Men | 13:30 – 15:00 |
| Hyrox Doubles Mixed | 15:30 – 16:40 |
| Hyrox Doubles Women | 17:10 – 18:20 |
| Hyrox Women | 18:30 – 19:10 |
| Hyrox Adaptive Women | 18:30 – 19:10 |
| Hyrox Relays | 19:40 – 20:30 |
Saturday, 10 October 2026
| Division | Window |
|---|---|
| Hyrox Men | 08:00 – 13:10 |
| Hyrox Adaptive Men | 08:00 – 13:10 |
| Hyrox Doubles Mixed | 13:40 – 17:20 |
| Hyrox Doubles Women Pro | 17:50 – 18:40 |
| Hyrox Doubles Men Pro | 19:10 – 20:30 |
Sunday, 11 October 2026
| Division | Window |
|---|---|
| Hyrox Doubles Women | 08:00 – 11:30 |
| Hyrox Women | 12:00 – 15:00 |
| Hyrox Doubles Men | 15:30 – 19:40 |
Two practical readings of this table. First, your division may run on more than one day — Hyrox Men appears on Friday and Saturday, Hyrox Women on Friday and Sunday, Doubles Women on Friday and Sunday. Which day you race is decided by your ticket, not by preference. Second, a Friday evening or Sunday late-afternoon slot changes your travel: a 19:30 finish in Doubles Men on Sunday means you are leaving Palexpo well after 20:00.
Your start time is not on that table
This is the single most misread thing about a Hyrox weekend, so it is worth being precise.
Published now
A division window
Several hours wide, e.g. 08:00–13:10. Everyone in your division shares it.
About 3 days out
Your wave
One fixed time inside that window, linked in your Hyrox account. It cannot be changed.
What you can plan with
The windows above are division windows. Inside one, athletes are released in waves every few minutes, and your wave is your start time. Hyrox links the individual start time approximately three days before the event — until then, the provisional schedule is what you plan around, nothing more.
Two consequences worth planning for:
- Start times cannot be changed. Hyrox states this explicitly on the event page. If you are given the first wave of a Friday morning window, that is your race.
- Build your travel around the widest plausible slot, then narrow it. If your division window is 08:00–13:10, book as if you start at 08:00 and adjust once the real time is published. Booking a train for a 12:00 start and drawing 08:15 is an expensive mistake.
Set yourself a reminder for the Tuesday of race week to check your Hyrox account.
Palexpo: halls 4 and 5
The race is in Halls 4 and 5 of Palexpo, the exhibition centre next to Geneva airport at Route François-Peyrot 30, 1218 Le Grand-Saconnex. It is the same venue that hosts the Geneva Motor Show, which tells you what you need to know: a single vast indoor floor, flat, hard, and cool enough that you should not stand around in a wet shirt after your run.
The race package includes your finisher patch, the timing splits for every run and every station, aid stations before, during and after the race, an age-group award ceremony per division, and — specific to Geneva — a view from the Thunderdome for watching the rest of the day's racing. Ceremony times are now published per division on the official event page.
Getting there
Palexpo is one of the easiest Hyrox venues in Europe to reach without a car, and for a Swiss athlete the train is almost always the better call.
By train. Get to Genève-Aéroport station and walk about ten minutes to Palexpo. The station sits directly under the airport terminal, which means no change and no bus. Palexpo lists roughly 10 minutes from Geneva city centre, 40 minutes from Lausanne and about 3 hours from Zurich — comfortably a same-day trip from most of the Swiss Plateau for a mid-morning start, and an overnight for anything earlier.
By bus. From within Geneva, bus lines 5, 8, 50, 55, 58 and 59 stop at Palexpo; lines 28, 54 and 66 stop at Palexpo-Halle 7; lines 10, 23 and 57 stop at Genève-Aéroport, leaving you the same ten-minute walk. If your hotel is in Geneva you will typically get a free public-transport card at check-in — ask for it, it covers these buses.
By plane. You land at the venue. Geneva airport's terminal and Palexpo are a walk apart, which is why the venue was chosen.
By car. Parking P12 has around 1,500 spaces, is open 24 hours, and has spaces reserved for reduced mobility plus four fast chargers. Two catches: you cannot reserve a space, and the maximum vehicle height is 2 metres — a van or a roof box will not fit. On a Saturday morning with three divisions arriving, "there will be space" is a hope, not a plan. Take the train.
Race entered. Is the block built?
Whatever runway is left before Geneva is enough to sharpen compromised running, the sled and station efficiency — if the plan is built backwards from your race weekend rather than assembled the fortnight before.
When to arrive
Hyrox has now published the race-day registration windows: 06:30–19:45 on Friday and Saturday, and 06:30–18:45 on Sunday. Those are desk opening hours, not a recommendation to arrive shortly before your start. The timeline below is still a coaching recommendation rather than an event rule.
−120 min
Arrive
Park, find the hall, locate check-in and the bag drop before you think about warming up. Venues are bigger than they look.
−90 min
Check in
ID and your registration confirmation, bib collected, chip on the shoe. Doing this early is what buys you a calm hour.
−30 min
Warm up
Easy running, then a short sled push and ten wall balls so the first station is not the first rep of the day.
−5 min
Corral
You are called in waves. Shoes tied twice, nothing in your hands, the first kilometre planned slower than it feels right.
Work backwards from your individual start time and give yourself at least two hours on site: check-in and the bag drop, finding the warm-up area, and a quiet twenty minutes before you are called. If you are travelling in on race morning, add the margin you would give any train you cannot afford to miss — and if you draw an 08:00 wave from outside the Lake Geneva region, sleep in Geneva the night before rather than catching a 05:00 train.
One thing that is an official rule: during race weekend, you can only check in on the day you are competing. Arriving on Friday to collect your bib for a Sunday race does not work.
Check-in and what you must bring
Four requirements from the official event information, all of which turn people away when ignored:
- A physical ID. A digital copy or a photograph of your ID will not be accepted. Bring the card or the passport itself.
- You check in for yourself. Checking in on behalf of another athlete is not allowed — including your Doubles partner.
- Same-day only. Check-in happens on your own race day, not earlier in the weekend.
- All four items or you do not race. At registration you receive an athlete wristband, a venue access wristband, an ankle strap with the timing chip, and your bib number. Hyrox states plainly that you cannot race without all of them.
What race day looks like
The race itself is identical in every city: 1 km run, one station, eight times through, in a fixed order — SkiErg, sled push, sled pull, burpee broad jumps, row, farmers carry, sandbag lunges, wall balls. The distances are the same in every division; only the weights change between Open and Pro. The transition between the run and the station is the roxzone, and it is timed like everything else.
1
SkiErg
1,000 m
2
Sled push
50 m
3
Sled pull
50 m
4
Burpee broad jumps
80 m
5
Rowing
1,000 m
6
Farmers carry
200 m
7
Sandbag lunges
100 m
8
Wall balls
100 reps
Your day around it runs: arrive → check in and collect wristbands, chip and bib → bag drop → warm-up area → call-up → your wave → eight runs and eight stations → finish → results and splits. Every run, station and roxzone split is published per athlete afterwards, which makes your first race the best training document you will get all year.
If this is your first one, the pacing and the mistakes are covered properly in your first Hyrox race, and the divisions and weights in what counts as a good Hyrox Pro time.
What is published — and what is still TBA
As of 8 October 2026, Hyrox has added several pieces of race-week information for Geneva:
- Race-day athlete registration: Friday 06:30–19:45, Saturday 06:30–19:45, Sunday 06:30–18:45.
- Relay briefing: Friday at 18:40.
- Ceremony times: now published per division on the official event page.
Two venue-specific details are still officially TBA:
- the venue / course map
- laps to run — how each nominal 1 km run is laid out inside Halls 4 and 5
That distinction matters. Do not plan your Roxzone entry, lap count or station approach from an unofficial graphic or a map from another city. The official Geneva event page still lists “Laps to run: TBA”, and no official Geneva Venue Map is linked there at this review.
Race-day checklist
- Physical ID — the one requirement that ends your weekend if you forget it
- Your Hyrox account details, and the individual start time you checked in race week
- Race shoes with a firm, grippy sole — something you can run 8 km in and still drive a sled with
- Race kit, plus a dry shirt for after
- Your usual drink and something to eat afterwards; nothing you have not used in training
- Travel booked around your actual start time, not the division window
- Journey planned to Genève-Aéroport station, or a P12 arrival with a large time buffer
Frequently asked questions
When is Hyrox Geneva 2026?
Friday 9 to Sunday 11 October 2026, at Palexpo in Geneva. Which of the three days you race depends on your division and your ticket — several divisions run on more than one day.
When do I get my individual start time for Hyrox Geneva?
Approximately three days before the event, linked in your Hyrox account. Until then the published per-division schedule is provisional and marked subject to change by Hyrox. Start times cannot be changed once assigned, so plan your travel around the earliest plausible slot in your window.
Is the Hyrox Geneva course map available yet?
Not on the official event page as of 8 October 2026. Hyrox still lists “Laps to run: TBA”, and no official Geneva Venue Map is linked there. Use the official event page rather than a map copied from another venue.
How do I get to Palexpo without a car?
Take the train to Genève-Aéroport and walk about ten minutes. From Geneva city centre that is roughly a ten-minute train ride; Lausanne is about 40 minutes and Zurich about 3 hours. Buses 5, 8, 50, 55, 58 and 59 also stop directly at Palexpo.
Can I check in on Friday for a Sunday race?
No. During race weekend, check-in is only possible on the day you are competing, and only in person with a physical ID — digital copies are not accepted and you cannot check in for anyone else.
The bottom line
- The schedule is a window; your start time comes three days out — and cannot be changed. Book travel around the earliest time in your window.
- Physical ID, in person, on your own race day. The most common way to lose a Hyrox weekend has nothing to do with fitness.
- Train beats car. Genève-Aéroport plus a ten-minute walk, against 1,500 unreservable spaces in P12.
- The official Geneva map and lap count are still TBA. Registration, relay briefing and ceremony times are now published, but the venue-specific race line is not.
Turn the date into a plan
Tell us your race date, the days you can train and the equipment you have. Your coach builds the block backwards from Geneva — running, compromised running, the sled and the eight stations in the right proportion.