Michael vs Jonas

BEL BEL · Open Men · 1 result

Michael de Backer

1:37:17 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2025
1252nd of 1,638 place in that race · 1,638 Open Men finishers
BEL BEL · Open Men · 2 results

Jonas van Daele

1:26:09 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2026
1659th of 2,671 place in that race · 2,671 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Mechelen 2025, Open Men · Jonas: Mechelen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Jonas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 15%).Jonas: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 20%).

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Part Michael: faster than Jonas: faster than
Ski 60% 44%
Push 68% 99%
Pull 33% 59%
BBJ 25% 38%
Row 28% 87%
Carry 75% 53%
Lunges 70% 49%
Wall balls 25% 54%
Roxzone 15% 40%
Runs 15% 20%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Jonas
SkiErg 60% 44%
Sled push 68% 99%
Sled pull 33% 59%
Burpee broad jump 25% 38%
Row 28% 87%
Farmers carry 75% 53%
Sandbag lunges 70% 49%
Wall balls 25% 54%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 40%
Runs (8 km) 15% 20%

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 · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men1:37:17
6:264:234:412:195:245:446:007:005:535:045:351:525:494:376:147:3512:41
Jonas · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men1:26:09
4:084:305:091:435:344:095:366:005:424:245:302:025:275:006:346:328:17
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 · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men: 46:01 running, 38:34 at the stations and 12:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:35).Below, Jonas · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men: 43:40 running, 34:20 at the stations and 8:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:32) and the shortest the sled push (1:43).

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Part Michael · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men Jonas · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:26 4:08
SkiErg 4:23 4:30
Run 2 4:41 5:09
Sled push 2:19 1:43
Run 3 5:24 5:34
Sled pull 5:44 4:09
Run 4 6:00 5:36
Burpee broad jump 7:00 6:00
Run 5 5:53 5:42
Row 5:04 4:24
Run 6 5:35 5:30
Farmers carry 1:52 2:02
Run 7 5:49 5:27
Sandbag lunges 4:37 5:00
Run 8 6:14 6:34
Wall balls 7:35 6:32
Roxzone 12:41 8:17
Finish 1:37:17 1:26:09

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Jonas Gap
Mechelen 2025 Open Men · 4 Apr 2025 1:37:17 1:37:22 0:05 · Michael faster
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