Cees vs Vanar

NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Cees den Dunnen

1:42:57 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2025
1388th of 1,638 place in that race · 1,638 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Vanar Mahendran

1:39:27 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
3144th of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers

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

Cees: Mechelen 2025, Open Men · Vanar: Birmingham Birm, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Cees and Vanar sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Cees: strongest on Runs (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 1%).Vanar: strongest on Carry (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 14%).

See the numbers
Part Cees: faster than Vanar: faster than
Ski 62% 35%
Push 45% 14%
Pull 38% 16%
BBJ 20% 14%
Row 18% 29%
Carry 4% 71%
Lunges 1% 24%
Wall balls 3% 15%
Roxzone 12% 50%
Runs 66% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Cees Vanar
SkiErg 62% 35%
Sled push 45% 14%
Sled pull 38% 16%
Burpee broad jump 20% 14%
Row 18% 29%
Farmers carry 4% 71%
Sandbag lunges 1% 24%
Wall balls 3% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 12% 50%
Runs (8 km) 66% 16%

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

Cees · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men1:42:57
5:414:223:592:374:135:314:187:204:215:134:163:334:2111:575:2112:4113:13
Vanar · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:39:27
5:434:415:134:156:025:546:027:546:075:055:421:535:516:176:1010:226:25
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.Cees · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men: 36:30 running, 53:14 at the stations and 13:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:41) and the shortest the sled push (2:37).Below, Vanar · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 46:50 running, 46:20 at the stations and 6:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:22).

See the numbers
Part Cees · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men Vanar · Birmingham Birm · Open Men
Run 1 5:41 5:43
SkiErg 4:22 4:41
Run 2 3:59 5:13
Sled push 2:37 4:15
Run 3 4:13 6:02
Sled pull 5:31 5:54
Run 4 4:18 6:02
Burpee broad jump 7:20 7:54
Run 5 4:21 6:07
Row 5:13 5:05
Run 6 4:16 5:42
Farmers carry 3:33 1:53
Run 7 4:21 5:51
Sandbag lunges 11:57 6:17
Run 8 5:21 6:10
Wall balls 12:41 10:22
Roxzone 13:13 6:25
Finish 1:42:57 1:39:27

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Cees Vanar Gap
Mechelen 2025 Open Men · 4 Apr 2025 1:42:57 1:42:53 0:04 · Vanar faster
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