Chad vs Vainon

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Chad Thomas

1:36:27 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
404th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Vainon Willis

1:36:20 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
403rd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Chad: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Vainon: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
ChadVainonedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Chad and Vainon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Chad: strongest on Ski (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 9%).Vainon: strongest on Pull (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 2%).

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Part Chad: faster than Vainon: faster than
Ski 74% 51%
Push 30% 69%
Pull 58% 72%
BBJ 53% 55%
Row 73% 2%
Carry 50% 67%
Lunges 9% 63%
Wall balls 31% 32%
Roxzone 64% 47%
Runs 56% 54%

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

Part by part

Part Chad Vainon
SkiErg 74% 51%
Sled push 30% 69%
Sled pull 58% 72%
Burpee broad jump 53% 55%
Row 73% 2%
Farmers carry 50% 67%
Sandbag lunges 9% 63%
Wall balls 31% 32%
Roxzone (moving) 64% 47%
Runs (8 km) 56% 54%

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

Chad · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:36:27
3:124:155:193:356:045:045:395:526:214:476:082:106:068:177:319:396:36
Vainon · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:36:20
3:304:275:152:425:594:336:065:436:018:086:231:596:105:067:189:317:38
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.Chad · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 46:20 running, 43:39 at the stations and 6:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:39).Below, Vainon · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 46:42 running, 42:09 at the stations and 7:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:31).

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Part Chad · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Vainon · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:12 3:30
SkiErg 4:15 4:27
Run 2 5:19 5:15
Sled push 3:35 2:42
Run 3 6:04 5:59
Sled pull 5:04 4:33
Run 4 5:39 6:06
Burpee broad jump 5:52 5:43
Run 5 6:21 6:01
Row 4:47 8:08
Run 6 6:08 6:23
Farmers carry 2:10 1:59
Run 7 6:06 6:10
Sandbag lunges 8:17 5:06
Run 8 7:31 7:18
Wall balls 9:39 9:31
Roxzone 6:36 7:38
Finish 1:36:27 1:36:20

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Chad Vainon Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:36:27 1:36:20 0:07 · Vainon faster
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