diff --git a/iprbench/benchmarks/hibench.py b/iprbench/benchmarks/hibench.py
index 2793cd0..4459341 100644
--- a/iprbench/benchmarks/hibench.py
+++ b/iprbench/benchmarks/hibench.py
@@ -83,11 +83,6 @@ class HiBench(IBenchmark):
         shell_command += f'{get_proxy_env_vars()} starbench --source-tree-provider \'{source_tree_provider}\' --num-cores {num_cores} --output-dir={output_dir} --cmake-path={cmake_path} {" ".join([f"--cmake-option={option}" for option in cmake_options])} --benchmark-command=\'{benchmark_command}\' --output-measurements={output_measurements_file_path}'
         subprocess.run(shell_command, shell=True, check=True, executable='/bin/bash')
         measurements: BenchmarkMeasurements = {}
-        df = pd.read_csv(output_measurements_file_path, sep='\t')
-        selected_rows = df[df['worker_id'] == '<average>']
-        assert len(selected_rows) == 1
-        row = selected_rows.loc[0]
-        duration = row["duration"]
         num_threads_per_run = 1  # at the moment starbench always allocates 1 core per process, but in the future, starbench will support multiple cores per process (useful to measure the how the app scales with increasing parallelism)
         measurements['num_threads_per_run'] = num_threads_per_run
         measurements['duration'] = duration