Paul vs Matt

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Paul Holdaway

1:21:35 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2546th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Matt Curtis

1:21:36 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2548th 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 · Matt: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Pull (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 25%).Matt: strongest on Ski (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 26%).

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Part Paul: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 54% 68%
Push 44% 45%
Pull 86% 48%
BBJ 86% 62%
Row 85% 54%
Carry 36% 37%
Lunges 55% 26%
Wall balls 25% 42%
Roxzone 57% 50%
Runs 50% 67%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Matt
SkiErg 54% 68%
Sled push 44% 45%
Sled pull 86% 48%
Burpee broad jump 86% 62%
Row 85% 54%
Farmers carry 36% 37%
Sandbag lunges 55% 26%
Wall balls 25% 42%
Roxzone (moving) 57% 50%
Runs (8 km) 50% 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

Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:21:35
3:294:483:582:543:553:524:004:004:034:353:542:144:184:595:539:3111:20
Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:21:36
2:494:413:422:534:044:514:095:044:054:543:562:133:386:134:567:5111:45
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: 33:30 running, 36:53 at the stations and 11:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:31).Below, Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 31:19 running, 38:40 at the stations and 11:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:51).

See the numbers
Part Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:29 2:49
SkiErg 4:48 4:41
Run 2 3:58 3:42
Sled push 2:54 2:53
Run 3 3:55 4:04
Sled pull 3:52 4:51
Run 4 4:00 4:09
Burpee broad jump 4:00 5:04
Run 5 4:03 4:05
Row 4:35 4:54
Run 6 3:54 3:56
Farmers carry 2:14 2:13
Run 7 4:18 3:38
Sandbag lunges 4:59 6:13
Run 8 5:53 4:56
Wall balls 9:31 7:51
Roxzone 11:20 11:45
Finish 1:21:35 1:21:36

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Matt Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:21:35 1:21:36 0:01 · Paul faster
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