Sonja vs Vanessa

GER GER · Open Women · 6 results

Sonja Buhrow

2:02:36 best Open Women time · Cologne 2025
717th of 760 place in that race · 760 Open Women finishers
GER GER · Open Women · 8 results

Vanessa Schrader

2:03:43 best Open Women time · Cologne 2025
719th of 760 place in that race · 760 Open Women finishers

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

Sonja: Cologne 2025, Open Women · Vanessa: Cologne 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Sonja and Vanessa sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sonja: strongest on BBJ (faster than 56% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 5%).Vanessa: strongest on BBJ (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 1%).

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Part Sonja: faster than Vanessa: faster than
Ski 9% 5%
Push 6% 1%
Pull 12% 7%
BBJ 56% 72%
Row 6% 4%
Carry 31% 4%
Lunges 10% 2%
Wall balls 6% 3%
Roxzone 8% 7%
Runs 5% 12%

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

Part by part

Part Sonja Vanessa
SkiErg 9% 5%
Sled push 6% 1%
Sled pull 12% 7%
Burpee broad jump 56% 72%
Row 6% 4%
Farmers carry 31% 4%
Sandbag lunges 10% 2%
Wall balls 6% 3%
Roxzone (moving) 8% 7%
Runs (8 km) 5% 12%

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

Sonja · Cologne 2025 · Open Women2:02:36
6:515:397:033:387:146:437:415:537:526:107:322:217:476:539:1310:4413:22
Vanessa · Cologne 2025 · Open Women2:03:43
6:225:536:194:206:287:106:545:056:516:216:583:187:109:278:4512:2014:02
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.Sonja · Cologne 2025 · Open Women: 1:01:13 running, 48:01 at the stations and 13:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:44).Below, Vanessa · Cologne 2025 · Open Women: 55:48 running, 53:53 at the stations and 14:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:20).

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Part Sonja · Cologne 2025 · Open Women Vanessa · Cologne 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 6:51 6:22
SkiErg 5:39 5:53
Run 2 7:03 6:19
Sled push 3:38 4:20
Run 3 7:14 6:28
Sled pull 6:43 7:10
Run 4 7:41 6:54
Burpee broad jump 5:53 5:05
Run 5 7:52 6:51
Row 6:10 6:21
Run 6 7:32 6:58
Farmers carry 2:21 3:18
Run 7 7:47 7:10
Sandbag lunges 6:53 9:27
Run 8 9:13 8:45
Wall balls 10:44 12:20
Roxzone 13:22 14:02
Finish 2:02:36 2:03:43

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Sonja Vanessa Gap
Cologne 2026 Relay Women · 17 Apr 2026 1:29:38 1:22:35 7:03 · Vanessa faster
Cologne 2025 Open Women · 10 Apr 2025 2:02:36 2:03:43 1:07 · Sonja faster
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