Birte vs Bethan

GER GER · Open Women · 5 results

Birte Merker

1:20:25 best Open Women time · Cologne 2025
152nd of 760 place in that race · 760 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Bethan Gorman

1:20:18 best Open Women time · Cologne 2025
150th of 760 place in that race · 760 Open Women finishers

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

Birte: Cologne 2025, Open Women · Bethan: Cologne 2025, Open Women

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLunges
no split
Wall ballsRoxzoneRuns
BirteBethanedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Birte and Bethan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Birte: strongest on BBJ (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 17%).Bethan: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 50%).

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Part Birte: faster than Bethan: faster than
Ski 78% 65%
Push 73% 64%
Pull 89% 50%
BBJ 98% 66%
Row 69% 59%
Carry 63% 79%
Lunges no split 78%
Wall balls 73% 82%
Roxzone 17% 78%
Runs 77% 81%

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

Part by part

Part Birte Bethan
SkiErg 78% 65%
Sled push 73% 64%
Sled pull 89% 50%
Burpee broad jump 98% 66%
Row 69% 59%
Farmers carry 63% 79%
Sandbag lunges — 78%
Wall balls 73% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 17% 78%
Runs (8 km) 77% 81%

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

Birte · Cologne 2025 · Open Women1:20:25
4:584:494:452:224:524:055:052:375:115:085:032:005:046:035:2910:55
Bethan · Cologne 2025 · Open Women1:20:18
4:504:564:422:294:545:124:565:264:585:135:031:525:043:575:535:065:47
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.Birte · Cologne 2025 · Open Women: 41:01 running, 26:30 at the stations and 10:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:29).Below, Bethan · Cologne 2025 · Open Women: 40:20 running, 34:11 at the stations and 5:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:26).

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Part Birte · Cologne 2025 · Open Women Bethan · Cologne 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 4:58 4:50
SkiErg 4:49 4:56
Run 2 4:45 4:42
Sled push 2:22 2:29
Run 3 4:52 4:54
Sled pull 4:05 5:12
Run 4 5:05 4:56
Burpee broad jump 2:37 5:26
Run 5 5:11 4:58
Row 5:08 5:13
Run 6 5:03 5:03
Farmers carry 2:00 1:52
Run 7 5:04 5:04
Sandbag lunges — 3:57
Run 8 6:03 5:53
Wall balls 5:29 5:06
Roxzone 10:55 5:47
Finish 1:20:25 1:20:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Birte Bethan Gap
Cologne 2025 Open Women · 10 Apr 2025 1:20:25 1:20:18 0:07 · Bethan faster
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