Aaron vs Zijian

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Aaron Soto

1:40:21 best Open Men time · New York 2025
1459th of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers
SIN SIN · Open Men · 3 results

Zijian Yang

1:40:11 best Open Men time · Beijing 2025
371st of 609 place in that race · 609 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Aaron: New York 2025, Open Men · Zijian: Beijing 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzone
no split
Runs
no split
AaronZijianedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Aaron and Zijian sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Aaron: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 11%).Zijian: strongest on Push (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 27%).

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Part Aaron: faster than Zijian: faster than
Ski 11% 31%
Push 97% 75%
Pull 61% 61%
BBJ 59% 41%
Row 35% 49%
Carry 50% 32%
Lunges 82% 29%
Wall balls 17% 39%
Roxzone no split 27%
Runs no split 37%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Aaron Zijian
SkiErg 11% 31%
Sled push 97% 75%
Sled pull 61% 61%
Burpee broad jump 59% 41%
Row 35% 49%
Farmers carry 50% 32%
Sandbag lunges 82% 29%
Wall balls 17% 39%
Roxzone (moving) — 27%
Runs (8 km) — 37%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Aaron · New York 2025 · Open Men1:40:21
6:165:041:433:505:025:032:214:179:38
Zijian · Beijing 2025 · Open Men1:40:11
4:364:575:043:095:485:455:445:586:055:005:532:375:516:437:328:4510:52
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Aaron · New York 2025 · Open Men: 6:16 running and 36:58 at the stations; the longest station was the wall balls (9:38) and the shortest the sled push (1:43).Below, Zijian · Beijing 2025 · Open Men: 46:32 running, 42:55 at the stations and 10:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:45).

See the numbers
Part Aaron · New York 2025 · Open Men Zijian · Beijing 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:16 4:36
SkiErg 5:04 4:57
Run 2 — 5:04
Sled push 1:43 3:09
Run 3 — 5:48
Sled pull 3:50 5:45
Run 4 — 5:44
Burpee broad jump 5:02 5:58
Run 5 — 6:05
Row 5:03 5:00
Run 6 — 5:53
Farmers carry 2:21 2:37
Run 7 — 5:51
Sandbag lunges 4:17 6:43
Run 8 — 7:32
Wall balls 9:38 8:45
Roxzone — 10:52
Finish 1:40:21 1:40:11

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Aaron Zijian Gap
New York 2026 Open Men · 28 May 2026 1:47:38 1:47:41 0:03 · Aaron faster
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