Paul vs Matty

GBR GBR · Open Men · 15 results

Paul Simpson

1:22:21 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2661st of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Matty Keep

1:22:22 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2662nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Matty: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Matty sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Ski (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 41%).Matty: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 42%).

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Part Paul: faster than Matty: faster than
Ski 93% 70%
Push 74% 65%
Pull 41% 44%
BBJ 47% 46%
Row 52% 73%
Carry 72% 75%
Lunges 49% 42%
Wall balls 47% 65%
Roxzone 53% 49%
Runs 46% 42%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Matty
SkiErg 93% 70%
Sled push 74% 65%
Sled pull 41% 44%
Burpee broad jump 47% 46%
Row 52% 73%
Farmers carry 72% 75%
Sandbag lunges 49% 42%
Wall balls 47% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 53% 49%
Runs (8 km) 46% 42%

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

Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:22:21
3:164:253:472:303:595:034:095:384:174:554:121:494:165:125:577:3211:33
Matty · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:22:22
3:204:403:572:373:594:574:015:404:204:434:191:474:275:286:056:2411:48
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.Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 33:53 running, 37:04 at the stations and 11:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:32).Below, Matty · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 34:28 running, 36:17 at the stations and 11:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:24).

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Part Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Matty · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:16 3:20
SkiErg 4:25 4:40
Run 2 3:47 3:57
Sled push 2:30 2:37
Run 3 3:59 3:59
Sled pull 5:03 4:57
Run 4 4:09 4:01
Burpee broad jump 5:38 5:40
Run 5 4:17 4:20
Row 4:55 4:43
Run 6 4:12 4:19
Farmers carry 1:49 1:47
Run 7 4:16 4:27
Sandbag lunges 5:12 5:28
Run 8 5:57 6:05
Wall balls 7:32 6:24
Roxzone 11:33 11:48
Finish 1:22:21 1:22:22

Head to head: 3 races they both ran

Race Paul Matty Gap
Birmingham Birm Doubles Men · 1 Nov 2026 1:05:54 1:08:57 3:03 · Paul faster
Birmingham Birm Doubles Men · 27 Oct 2026 1:07:09 1:08:57 1:48 · Paul faster
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:22:21 1:22:22 0:01 · Paul faster
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