Benoit vs Richard

BEL BEL · Open Men · 4 results

Benoit Hallez

1:09:49 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2025
170th of 1,638 place in that race · 1,638 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Richard Smith

1:06:02 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
171st of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Benoit: Mechelen 2025, Open Men · Richard: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Benoit and Richard sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Benoit: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 74%).Richard: strongest on Ski (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 69%).

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Part Benoit: faster than Richard: faster than
Ski 88% 97%
Push 84% 94%
Pull 99% 93%
BBJ 98% 88%
Row 93% 94%
Carry 97% 96%
Lunges 89% 69%
Wall balls 86% 81%
Roxzone 74% 89%
Runs 79% 95%

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

Part by part

Part Benoit Richard
SkiErg 88% 97%
Sled push 84% 94%
Sled pull 99% 93%
Burpee broad jump 98% 88%
Row 93% 94%
Farmers carry 97% 96%
Sandbag lunges 89% 69%
Wall balls 86% 81%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 89%
Runs (8 km) 79% 95%

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

Benoit · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men1:09:49
4:564:083:432:064:023:004:143:174:134:214:131:294:174:004:394:438:28
Richard · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:06:02
4:064:063:512:164:153:164:084:104:144:214:191:553:574:264:455:092:51
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.Benoit · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men: 34:17 running, 27:04 at the stations and 8:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:43).Below, Richard · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 33:35 running, 29:40 at the stations and 2:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:09).

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Part Benoit · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men Richard · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:56 4:06
SkiErg 4:08 4:06
Run 2 3:43 3:51
Sled push 2:06 2:16
Run 3 4:02 4:15
Sled pull 3:00 3:16
Run 4 4:14 4:08
Burpee broad jump 3:17 4:10
Run 5 4:13 4:14
Row 4:21 4:21
Run 6 4:13 4:19
Farmers carry 1:29 1:55
Run 7 4:17 3:57
Sandbag lunges 4:00 4:26
Run 8 4:39 4:45
Wall balls 4:43 5:09
Roxzone 8:28 2:51
Finish 1:09:49 1:06:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Benoit Richard Gap
Madrid 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:14:18 1:14:16 0:02 · Richard faster
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