The most fashionable fitness race of the moment returns to Paris this weekend, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. In one year, the number of participants has almost tripled. Proof of its meteoric development.
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles before the Grand Palais. Throughout this weekend, ten thousand people will participate, in the southwest of the capital, in the second edition of the Fitness Park Hyrox Paris, the Parisian event of the most fashionable hybrid race of the moment. In six months, between April 18 and 20, 2025, there should be (at least) as many – and undoubtedly more – to take on this sporting challenge in the famous monument adjoining the Champs-Elysées, place of exception whose setting illuminated the fencing events during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This shows the scale that this new discipline is taking on – which has the particularity of also being a brand, all like CrossFit – in France.
A dazzling development in France
Born in Germany, in Hamburg, in 2017, this “sports movement» first grew up outside France. Before, finally, settling there in 2023, under the leadership of Maxime Villalongue, a former Fédérale 2 rugby player – who…
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