Gert vs Liam

RSA RSA · Open Men · 4 results

Gert van Jaarsveld

1:29:05 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
249th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Liam Bottomley

1:29:02 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
247th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Gert: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Liam: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
GertLiamedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Gert and Liam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gert: strongest on Pull (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 35%).Liam: strongest on Ski (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 21%).

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Part Gert: faster than Liam: faster than
Ski 35% 83%
Push 54% 78%
Pull 76% 30%
BBJ 58% 69%
Row 49% 54%
Carry 48% 21%
Lunges 58% 44%
Wall balls 54% 54%
Roxzone 73% 47%
Runs 53% 67%

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

Part by part

Part Gert Liam
SkiErg 35% 83%
Sled push 54% 78%
Sled pull 76% 30%
Burpee broad jump 58% 69%
Row 49% 54%
Farmers carry 48% 21%
Sandbag lunges 58% 44%
Wall balls 54% 54%
Roxzone (moving) 73% 47%
Runs (8 km) 53% 67%

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

Gert · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:29:05
5:204:415:232:495:464:105:475:485:474:585:522:256:005:356:097:235:22
Liam · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:29:02
3:114:144:552:265:435:405:295:095:474:555:513:005:426:186:397:226:49
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.Gert · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 46:04 running, 37:49 at the stations and 5:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:23).Below, Liam · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 43:17 running, 39:04 at the stations and 6:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:22) and the shortest the sled push (2:26).

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Part Gert · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Liam · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:20 3:11
SkiErg 4:41 4:14
Run 2 5:23 4:55
Sled push 2:49 2:26
Run 3 5:46 5:43
Sled pull 4:10 5:40
Run 4 5:47 5:29
Burpee broad jump 5:48 5:09
Run 5 5:47 5:47
Row 4:58 4:55
Run 6 5:52 5:51
Farmers carry 2:25 3:00
Run 7 6:00 5:42
Sandbag lunges 5:35 6:18
Run 8 6:09 6:39
Wall balls 7:23 7:22
Roxzone 5:22 6:49
Finish 1:29:05 1:29:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gert Liam Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:29:05 1:29:02 0:03 · Liam faster
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