James vs Matt

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

James Newcombe

1:54:32 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3639th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Matt Sardovi

1:35:57 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4353rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

James: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Matt: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Carry (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 2%).Matt: strongest on Carry (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 28% 45%
Push 37% 15%
Pull 17% 16%
BBJ 8% 33%
Row 14% 33%
Carry 44% 63%
Lunges 8% 13%
Wall balls 2% 41%
Roxzone 14% 15%
Runs 11% 21%

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

Part by part

Part James Matt
SkiErg 28% 45%
Sled push 37% 15%
Sled pull 17% 16%
Burpee broad jump 8% 33%
Row 14% 33%
Farmers carry 44% 63%
Sandbag lunges 8% 13%
Wall balls 2% 41%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 15%
Runs (8 km) 11% 21%

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

James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:54:32
5:474:415:063:376:076:266:258:536:415:216:112:146:178:057:2016:299:02
Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:35:57
3:334:534:183:304:226:074:396:204:395:074:471:554:497:147:157:5414:41
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.James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 49:53 running, 55:45 at the stations and 9:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:29).Below, Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 38:22 running, 43:00 at the stations and 14:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:54).

See the numbers
Part James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:47 3:33
SkiErg 4:41 4:53
Run 2 5:06 4:18
Sled push 3:37 3:30
Run 3 6:07 4:22
Sled pull 6:26 6:07
Run 4 6:25 4:39
Burpee broad jump 8:53 6:20
Run 5 6:41 4:39
Row 5:21 5:07
Run 6 6:11 4:47
Farmers carry 2:14 1:55
Run 7 6:17 4:49
Sandbag lunges 8:05 7:14
Run 8 7:20 7:15
Wall balls 16:29 7:54
Roxzone 9:02 14:41
Finish 1:54:32 1:35:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Matt Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:54:32 1:54:33 0:01 · James faster
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