Chip timing built in
Velcro transponders on your athletes and a high-precision sensor. The precise time flows automatically into the ranking. The pack is optional and rents by the weekend with Throwdown ticketing, on quote.
Hybrid races
Run your hybrid races
Chip timing, automated wave starts and a ranking that updates live. From registration to the finish line, everything runs on one platform.
Built for your discipline
You manage everything from one platform. Registrations, divisions, wave starts generated automatically from the estimated times entered at registration, chip check-in and a live ranking, for a race that strings together HYROX®-style stations. You focus on the floor, we take care of the rest.
HYROX® is a registered trademark of Upsolut Sports AG. Aquarox® is a registered trademark of its owner. ATHX® is a trademark of its owner. Throwdown is not affiliated with any of these organisations.
What Throwdown changes on race day
Automated wave starts
We generate the wave schedule automatically from the estimated times each athlete enters at registration. Starts go off at the interval of your choice, and the division running order adjusts via drag and drop.
Gap to the leader and live ranking
The gap to the leader shows in minutes and seconds. As athletes cross the sensor, the ranking updates live in their app, with no manual entry or publishing to manage.
Up to 3 broadcast screens
Up to three screens show at once, the start line with its countdown and full-screen GO, athletes finishing live with their flags, and a finisher photo screen where a selected time shows full size. Your race takes on the look of a major event.
Chip check-in
At check-in, you assign a chip to each present team in one move, straight from the check-in page. The chip is reused across waves, and only those present feed the ranking.
Clear ticketing and fees
3% + 1.50 € per registration, with no subscription. Built-in Stripe payment with cards from anywhere, Apple Pay, Google Pay and local methods like iDEAL, Bancontact or Klarna, promo codes, automatic early bird, the flex option and registration in two minutes from a phone. You choose who carries the fees, the athlete, you, or 50/50.
Three revenue streams
Registrations, your merch shop with t-shirts and goodies, sizes, stock, pickup or shipping, and your spectator tickets all run through the same ticketing and the same Stripe checkout.
The four steps to the finish line
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Create your race
Name, dates, location, divisions and price. Your public page is online in a few minutes, with no code.
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Open registration
Each athlete enters their estimated time at registration, which feeds your wave seeding directly. Online payment, automatic waitlist.
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Assign chips at check-in
On arrival, you mark the present teams and assign their chip from the check-in page. Waves are generated automatically from the estimated times.
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Launch the starts
The start line paces your waves, the sensor reads the times, and the ranking shows live on the screens and in the athletes' app.
On quote
Finish line options
On top of the timing pack, options to give your finish line the look of a major race, on quote.
Finish arch with screen
A finish-line arch with a built-in screen to show times and finishers live.
Light and smoke effects
A smoke machine and lighting to mark every crossing of the line.
Cold sparks
Cold sparks at the finish for the final, with no heat and no risk.
Go further
- Running a hybrid race simulation Format, ticketing, timing and schedule, the steps to run a simulation in your box.
- Running a multi-zone simulation Strength, endurance and metcon in fixed-length zones, from registration to the overall ranking.
- The hybrid race format Stations, running, divisions and course control, what the format means for the organisation.
- Equipment and budget for a hybrid race The equipment to plan for based on wave size, and the cost lines of a first edition.
- Hybrid races in pairs and teams Pairs, mixed and team divisions, their rules and their leaderboards.
- Timing a hybrid race A chip at the ankle, a high precision sensor and a live leaderboard, for fair wave starts.
- The hybrid race, in a swimming pool Stations on the pool deck, a swim between each one and pairs starting in waves.
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No, it is optional. The pack rents by the weekend with Throwdown ticketing, on quote, and includes the velcro transponders plus a high-precision sensor. The precise time flows automatically into the ranking.
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You launch your waves at the interval of your choice. Wave generation is automatic and uses the estimated times athletes enter at registration. You set the division running order via drag and drop. The precise time is calculated from the athlete's wave start time.
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Yes. Throwdown is built for the hybrid race format popularized by HYROX®, with runs and stations strung together on the floor, wave starts and a ranking by precise time. You put on your own hybrid race in that spirit, with your own standards and your own divisions. The timing measures total time at the finish line, and a checkpoint can count crossings along the course.
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Yes, as a functional fitness competition. A multi-zone simulation in the spirit of ATHX® strings together a strength zone, an endurance zone and a metcon. It is set up as a WOD competition, where each zone is a WOD scored by load, distance or time, entered by the judges on phone or on paper, and the overall ranking adds up the zones on points.
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Yes. Formats that alternate swimming with stations on the pool deck, like the Aquarox® evenings run by aquatic centres, use the same waves. The number of pairs per wave follows your swim lanes, the active chips are waterproof, and a sensor at the pool exit can count every swim.
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All the ones you need, solo, duo, team, mixed, by gender, by age, masters, by level and sub-divisions. Each division gets its spot quota and switches to an automatic waitlist as soon as it is full.
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At check-in, you mark athletes as present on arrival and assign them their chips. Only those present feed the planning and the ranking. The Cast screen broadcasts the scoreboard and the finishes, and athletes follow their wave and their results from the iOS and Android apps or on the web.
Launch your hybrid race
Create your page in a few minutes, no card required to start.
