Daniel vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Daniel Shaw

2:31:29 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3910th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Busby

2:33:06 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3911th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Daniel: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Paul: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Daniel and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Daniel: strongest on Runs (faster than 12% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 0%).Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 57% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).

See the numbers
Part Daniel: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 1% 1%
Push 3% 57%
Pull 4% 12%
BBJ 1% 1%
Row 0% 8%
Carry 3% 9%
Lunges 0% 1%
Wall balls 1% 5%
Roxzone 0% 0%
Runs 12% 0%

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

Part by part

Part Daniel Paul
SkiErg 1% 1%
Sled push 3% 57%
Sled pull 4% 12%
Burpee broad jump 1% 1%
Row 0% 8%
Farmers carry 3% 9%
Sandbag lunges 0% 1%
Wall balls 1% 5%
Roxzone (moving) 0% 0%
Runs (8 km) 12% 0%

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

Daniel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:31:29
6:125:375:266:016:478:055:4814:295:507:286:113:456:0319:487:0821:1715:42
Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:33:06
9:425:287:483:077:436:518:2115:069:035:337:583:078:1612:0414:2613:4514:58
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.Daniel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 49:24 running, 1:26:30 at the stations and 15:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (21:17).Below, Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 1:13:17 running, 1:05:02 at the stations and 14:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:06) and the shortest the sled push (3:07).

See the numbers
Part Daniel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:12 9:42
SkiErg 5:37 5:28
Run 2 5:26 7:48
Sled push 6:01 3:07
Run 3 6:47 7:43
Sled pull 8:05 6:51
Run 4 5:48 8:21
Burpee broad jump 14:29 15:06
Run 5 5:50 9:03
Row 7:28 5:33
Run 6 6:11 7:58
Farmers carry 3:45 3:07
Run 7 6:03 8:16
Sandbag lunges 19:48 12:04
Run 8 7:08 14:26
Wall balls 21:17 13:45
Roxzone 15:42 14:58
Finish 2:31:29 2:33:06

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Daniel Paul Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:31:29 2:33:06 1:37 · Daniel faster
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