Michele vs Karsten

ITA ITA · Open Men · 8 results

Michele Massini

1:20:50 best Open Men time · Verona 2025
729th of 1,842 place in that race · 1,842 Open Men finishers
DEN DEN · Open Men · 6 results

Karsten Grøn Nielsen

1:24:33 best Open Men time · Berlin 2026
1908th of 4,143 place in that race · 4,143 Open Men finishers

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

Michele: Verona 2025, Open Men · Karsten: Berlin 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michele and Karsten sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michele: strongest on BBJ (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 33%).Karsten: strongest on Carry (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 28%).

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Part Michele: faster than Karsten: faster than
Ski 41% 28%
Push 33% 50%
Pull 76% 78%
BBJ 81% 72%
Row 71% 28%
Carry 57% 85%
Lunges 76% 44%
Wall balls 51% 36%
Roxzone 74% 60%
Runs 46% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Michele Karsten
SkiErg 41% 28%
Sled push 33% 50%
Sled pull 76% 78%
Burpee broad jump 81% 72%
Row 71% 28%
Farmers carry 57% 85%
Sandbag lunges 76% 44%
Wall balls 51% 36%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 60%
Runs (8 km) 46% 48%

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

Michele · Verona 2025 · Open Men1:20:50
5:104:355:013:245:074:065:104:055:094:355:102:024:594:285:286:305:58
Karsten · Berlin 2026 · Open Men1:24:33
3:404:443:573:204:033:413:564:464:075:054:121:504:265:356:087:5513:17
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.Michele · Verona 2025 · Open Men: 41:15 running, 33:44 at the stations and 5:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:30).Below, Karsten · Berlin 2026 · Open Men: 34:29 running, 36:55 at the stations and 13:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:55).

See the numbers
Part Michele · Verona 2025 · Open Men Karsten · Berlin 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:10 3:40
SkiErg 4:35 4:44
Run 2 5:01 3:57
Sled push 3:24 3:20
Run 3 5:07 4:03
Sled pull 4:06 3:41
Run 4 5:10 3:56
Burpee broad jump 4:05 4:46
Run 5 5:09 4:07
Row 4:35 5:05
Run 6 5:10 4:12
Farmers carry 2:02 1:50
Run 7 4:59 4:26
Sandbag lunges 4:28 5:35
Run 8 5:28 6:08
Wall balls 6:30 7:55
Roxzone 5:58 13:17
Finish 1:20:50 1:24:33

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Michele Karsten Gap
Berlin 2026 Open Men · 22 May 2026 1:24:34 1:24:33 0:01 · Karsten faster
Bologna 2026 Open Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:24:06 1:24:59 0:53 · Michele faster
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