Henning vs Merlin

GER GER · Open Men · 6 results

Henning List

1:30:59 best Open Men time · Frankfurt 2025
1174th of 1,883 place in that race · 1,883 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 5 results

Merlin Smeenk

1:26:04 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2025
816th of 1,936 place in that race · 1,936 Open Men finishers

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

Henning: Frankfurt 2025, Open Men · Merlin: Maastricht 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Henning and Merlin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Henning: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 11%).Merlin: strongest on Ski (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 24%).

See the numbers
Part Henning: faster than Merlin: faster than
Ski 22% 77%
Push 20% 38%
Pull 43% 58%
BBJ 24% 47%
Row 16% 60%
Carry 37% 72%
Lunges 57% 24%
Wall balls 64% 68%
Roxzone 11% 73%
Runs 48% 52%

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

Part by part

Part Henning Merlin
SkiErg 22% 77%
Sled push 20% 38%
Sled pull 43% 58%
Burpee broad jump 24% 47%
Row 16% 60%
Farmers carry 37% 72%
Sandbag lunges 57% 24%
Wall balls 64% 68%
Roxzone (moving) 11% 73%
Runs (8 km) 48% 52%

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

Henning · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men1:30:59
4:104:444:414:225:005:105:086:375:315:125:272:125:344:486:206:129:58
Merlin · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men1:26:04
6:204:164:282:514:454:564:506:075:124:435:061:545:016:185:527:006:33
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.Henning · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men: 41:51 running, 39:17 at the stations and 9:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:37).Below, Merlin · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men: 41:34 running, 38:05 at the stations and 6:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:00).

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Part Henning · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men Merlin · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:10 6:20
SkiErg 4:44 4:16
Run 2 4:41 4:28
Sled push 4:22 2:51
Run 3 5:00 4:45
Sled pull 5:10 4:56
Run 4 5:08 4:50
Burpee broad jump 6:37 6:07
Run 5 5:31 5:12
Row 5:12 4:43
Run 6 5:27 5:06
Farmers carry 2:12 1:54
Run 7 5:34 5:01
Sandbag lunges 4:48 6:18
Run 8 6:20 5:52
Wall balls 6:12 7:00
Roxzone 9:58 6:33
Finish 1:30:59 1:26:04

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Henning Merlin Gap
Frankfurt 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:30:59 1:30:56 0:03 · Merlin faster
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