Rainer vs Volker

GER GER · Open Men · 1 result

Rainer Gerhard

1:10:30 best Open Men time · Karlsruhe 2025
98th of 1,207 place in that race · 1,207 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 14 results

Volker Schmitz

1:07:38 best Open Men time · Cologne 2026
72nd of 1,452 place in that race · 1,452 Open Men finishers

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

Rainer: Karlsruhe 2025, Open Men · Volker: Cologne 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Rainer and Volker sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Rainer: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 54%).Volker: strongest on Runs (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 49%).

See the numbers
Part Rainer: faster than Volker: faster than
Ski 87% 96%
Push 54% 63%
Pull 84% 80%
BBJ 86% 49%
Row 74% 94%
Carry 76% 95%
Lunges 92% 90%
Wall balls 76% 94%
Roxzone 97% 96%
Runs 90% 97%

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

Part by part

Part Rainer Volker
SkiErg 87% 96%
Sled push 54% 63%
Sled pull 84% 80%
Burpee broad jump 86% 49%
Row 74% 94%
Farmers carry 76% 95%
Sandbag lunges 92% 90%
Wall balls 76% 94%
Roxzone (moving) 97% 96%
Runs (8 km) 90% 97%

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

Rainer · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men1:10:30
3:084:094:242:434:334:024:434:124:474:344:351:444:483:405:065:164:14
Volker · Cologne 2026 · Open Men1:07:38
3:134:044:023:024:113:464:145:314:214:244:161:284:193:503:524:464:28
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.Rainer · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men: 36:04 running, 30:20 at the stations and 4:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:16).Below, Volker · Cologne 2026 · Open Men: 32:28 running, 30:52 at the stations and 4:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:31).

See the numbers
Part Rainer · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men Volker · Cologne 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:08 3:13
SkiErg 4:09 4:04
Run 2 4:24 4:02
Sled push 2:43 3:02
Run 3 4:33 4:11
Sled pull 4:02 3:46
Run 4 4:43 4:14
Burpee broad jump 4:12 5:31
Run 5 4:47 4:21
Row 4:34 4:24
Run 6 4:35 4:16
Farmers carry 1:44 1:28
Run 7 4:48 4:19
Sandbag lunges 3:40 3:50
Run 8 5:06 3:52
Wall balls 5:16 4:46
Roxzone 4:14 4:28
Finish 1:10:30 1:07:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Rainer Volker Gap
Karlsruhe 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:10:30 1:10:37 0:07 · Rainer faster
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