Marcus vs Robert

HKG HKG · Open Men · 2 results

Marcus Lau

1:23:36 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2857th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Robert Pickford

1:23:34 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2855th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Marcus: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Robert: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Marcus and Robert sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Marcus: strongest on BBJ (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 16%).Robert: strongest on Runs (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 10%).

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Part Marcus: faster than Robert: faster than
Ski 43% 10%
Push 76% 21%
Pull 63% 36%
BBJ 97% 16%
Row 56% 61%
Carry 40% 55%
Lunges 96% 31%
Wall balls 85% 48%
Roxzone 29% 67%
Runs 16% 67%

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

Part by part

Part Marcus Robert
SkiErg 43% 10%
Sled push 76% 21%
Sled pull 63% 36%
Burpee broad jump 97% 16%
Row 56% 61%
Farmers carry 40% 55%
Sandbag lunges 96% 31%
Wall balls 85% 48%
Roxzone (moving) 29% 67%
Runs (8 km) 16% 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

Marcus · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:23:36
3:314:544:182:284:534:284:513:135:134:535:062:104:593:256:525:2013:10
Robert · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:23:34
3:035:213:293:203:385:113:457:363:494:503:422:003:465:565:577:2910:49
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.Marcus · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 39:43 running, 30:52 at the stations and 13:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:20).Below, Robert · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 31:09 running, 41:42 at the stations and 10:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:36).

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Part Marcus · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Robert · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:31 3:03
SkiErg 4:54 5:21
Run 2 4:18 3:29
Sled push 2:28 3:20
Run 3 4:53 3:38
Sled pull 4:28 5:11
Run 4 4:51 3:45
Burpee broad jump 3:13 7:36
Run 5 5:13 3:49
Row 4:53 4:50
Run 6 5:06 3:42
Farmers carry 2:10 2:00
Run 7 4:59 3:46
Sandbag lunges 3:25 5:56
Run 8 6:52 5:57
Wall balls 5:20 7:29
Roxzone 13:10 10:49
Finish 1:23:36 1:23:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Marcus Robert Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:23:36 1:23:34 0:02 · Robert faster
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