Ian vs Sam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Ian Shepherd

1:39:41 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4620th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Sam Stevenson

1:37:57 best Open Men time · Berlin 2026
3101st of 4,143 place in that race · 4,143 Open Men finishers

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

Ian: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Sam: Berlin 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ian and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ian: strongest on BBJ (faster than 28% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 6%).Sam: strongest on Lunges (faster than 47% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 6%).

See the numbers
Part Ian: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 13% 6%
Push 10% 20%
Pull 6% 16%
BBJ 28% 21%
Row 15% 9%
Carry 14% 23%
Lunges 27% 47%
Wall balls 12% 28%
Roxzone 27% 24%
Runs 24% 31%

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

Part by part

Part Ian Sam
SkiErg 13% 6%
Sled push 10% 20%
Sled pull 6% 16%
Burpee broad jump 28% 21%
Row 15% 9%
Farmers carry 14% 23%
Sandbag lunges 27% 47%
Wall balls 12% 28%
Roxzone (moving) 27% 24%
Runs (8 km) 24% 31%

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

Ian · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:39:41
3:335:174:173:434:457:214:396:394:375:264:342:444:376:106:3811:3313:16
Sam · Berlin 2026 · Open Men1:37:57
4:005:104:174:034:385:344:297:234:305:304:172:474:125:276:488:3416:26
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.Ian · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:40 running, 48:53 at the stations and 13:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:33).Below, Sam · Berlin 2026 · Open Men: 37:10 running, 44:28 at the stations and 16:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:34).

See the numbers
Part Ian · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Sam · Berlin 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:33 4:00
SkiErg 5:17 5:10
Run 2 4:17 4:17
Sled push 3:43 4:03
Run 3 4:45 4:38
Sled pull 7:21 5:34
Run 4 4:39 4:29
Burpee broad jump 6:39 7:23
Run 5 4:37 4:30
Row 5:26 5:30
Run 6 4:34 4:17
Farmers carry 2:44 2:47
Run 7 4:37 4:12
Sandbag lunges 6:10 5:27
Run 8 6:38 6:48
Wall balls 11:33 8:34
Roxzone 13:16 16:26
Finish 1:39:41 1:37:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ian Sam Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:47:18 1:47:17 0:01 · Sam faster
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