Michael vs Ocean

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Nixon

2:20:14 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
1243rd of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Ocean Tsai

2:19:46 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
1241st of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men · Ocean: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJ
no split
RowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MichaelOceanedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Michael and Ocean sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 1%).Ocean: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 22% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 0%).

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Part Michael: faster than Ocean: faster than
Ski 54% 3%
Push 97% 0%
Pull 58% 3%
BBJ 2% no split
Row 15% 0%
Carry 46% 4%
Lunges 1% 2%
Wall balls 4% 22%
Roxzone 25% 2%
Runs 6% 10%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Ocean
SkiErg 54% 3%
Sled push 97% 0%
Sled pull 58% 3%
Burpee broad jump 2% —
Row 15% 0%
Farmers carry 46% 4%
Sandbag lunges 1% 2%
Wall balls 4% 22%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 2%
Runs (8 km) 6% 10%

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

Michael · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men2:20:14
4:174:417:261:597:444:488:0213:129:145:398:062:118:1314:5610:5216:4412:19
Ocean · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men2:19:46
3:445:356:258:376:498:186:469:458:168:003:277:5412:189:3010:5323:28
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.Michael · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 1:03:53 running, 1:04:09 at the stations and 12:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:44) and the shortest the sled push (1:59).Below, Ocean · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 58:53 running, 57:24 at the stations and 23:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (12:18).

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Part Michael · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men Ocean · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:17 3:44
SkiErg 4:41 5:35
Run 2 7:26 6:25
Sled push 1:59 8:37
Run 3 7:44 6:49
Sled pull 4:48 8:18
Run 4 8:02 6:46
Burpee broad jump 13:12 —
Run 5 9:14 9:45
Row 5:39 8:16
Run 6 8:06 8:00
Farmers carry 2:11 3:27
Run 7 8:13 7:54
Sandbag lunges 14:56 12:18
Run 8 10:52 9:30
Wall balls 16:44 10:53
Roxzone 12:19 23:28
Finish 2:20:14 2:19:46

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Ocean Gap
Salt Lake City 2026 Open Men · 18 Sep 2026 2:20:14 2:19:46 0:28 · Ocean faster
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