Gerben vs Nighel

NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Gerben de Vries

1:13:00 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2025
229th of 1,541 place in that race · 1,541 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 5 results

Nighel Brinkman

1:09:11 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2026
328th of 2,671 place in that race · 2,671 Open Men finishers

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

Gerben: Heerenveen 2025, Open Men · Nighel: Mechelen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Gerben and Nighel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gerben: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 37%).Nighel: strongest on Runs (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 48%).

See the numbers
Part Gerben: faster than Nighel: faster than
Ski 37% 63%
Push 81% 51%
Pull 66% 68%
BBJ 98% 81%
Row 76% 60%
Carry 95% 48%
Lunges 92% 56%
Wall balls 99% 59%
Roxzone 90% 91%
Runs 65% 96%

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

Part by part

Part Gerben Nighel
SkiErg 37% 63%
Sled push 81% 51%
Sled pull 66% 68%
Burpee broad jump 98% 81%
Row 76% 60%
Farmers carry 95% 48%
Sandbag lunges 92% 56%
Wall balls 99% 59%
Roxzone (moving) 90% 91%
Runs (8 km) 65% 96%

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

Gerben · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men1:13:00
4:324:314:302:244:364:254:373:335:024:354:501:314:563:485:103:516:18
Nighel · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men1:09:11
2:514:223:452:403:543:593:564:193:534:393:502:063:484:484:076:186:04
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.Gerben · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men: 38:13 running, 28:38 at the stations and 6:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:35).Below, Nighel · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men: 30:04 running, 33:11 at the stations and 6:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:18).

See the numbers
Part Gerben · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men Nighel · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:32 2:51
SkiErg 4:31 4:22
Run 2 4:30 3:45
Sled push 2:24 2:40
Run 3 4:36 3:54
Sled pull 4:25 3:59
Run 4 4:37 3:56
Burpee broad jump 3:33 4:19
Run 5 5:02 3:53
Row 4:35 4:39
Run 6 4:50 3:50
Farmers carry 1:31 2:06
Run 7 4:56 3:48
Sandbag lunges 3:48 4:48
Run 8 5:10 4:07
Wall balls 3:51 6:18
Roxzone 6:18 6:04
Finish 1:13:00 1:09:11

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gerben Nighel Gap
Utrecht 2025 Open Men · 28 Nov 2025 1:20:46 1:20:47 0:01 · Gerben faster
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