Carl vs Curtis

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Carl van der Merwe

1:39:18 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
392nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Curtis Chalmers

1:39:21 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
394th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Carl: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Curtis: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
CarlCurtisedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Carl and Curtis sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Carl: strongest on Lunges (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 6%).Curtis: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).

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Part Carl: faster than Curtis: faster than
Ski 44% 18%
Push 6% 36%
Pull 31% 26%
BBJ 28% 55%
Row 41% 10%
Carry 22% 3%
Lunges 54% 57%
Wall balls 45% 71%
Roxzone 24% 31%
Runs 51% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Carl Curtis
SkiErg 44% 18%
Sled push 6% 36%
Sled pull 31% 26%
Burpee broad jump 28% 55%
Row 41% 10%
Farmers carry 22% 3%
Sandbag lunges 54% 57%
Wall balls 45% 71%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 31%
Runs (8 km) 51% 40%

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

Carl · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:39:18
3:554:365:124:306:115:395:367:336:165:046:152:596:275:466:398:078:40
Curtis · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:39:21
4:134:575:553:096:145:536:165:586:245:496:334:176:465:406:596:228:04
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.Carl · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 46:31 running, 44:14 at the stations and 8:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:07).Below, Curtis · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 49:20 running, 42:05 at the stations and 8:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:22) and the shortest the sled push (3:09).

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Part Carl · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Curtis · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:55 4:13
SkiErg 4:36 4:57
Run 2 5:12 5:55
Sled push 4:30 3:09
Run 3 6:11 6:14
Sled pull 5:39 5:53
Run 4 5:36 6:16
Burpee broad jump 7:33 5:58
Run 5 6:16 6:24
Row 5:04 5:49
Run 6 6:15 6:33
Farmers carry 2:59 4:17
Run 7 6:27 6:46
Sandbag lunges 5:46 5:40
Run 8 6:39 6:59
Wall balls 8:07 6:22
Roxzone 8:40 8:04
Finish 1:39:18 1:39:21

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Carl Curtis Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:39:18 1:39:21 0:03 · Carl faster
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