Michel vs Matthew

NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Michel Severs

1:20:58 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
590th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Matthew de Sousa

1:21:02 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
592nd of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers

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

Michel: Ghent 2025, Open Men · Matthew: Ghent 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michel and Matthew sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michel: strongest on Push (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 28%).Matthew: strongest on BBJ (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 34%).

See the numbers
Part Michel: faster than Matthew: faster than
Ski 49% 44%
Push 98% 91%
Pull 86% 78%
BBJ 57% 99%
Row 66% 71%
Carry 28% 90%
Lunges 61% 34%
Wall balls 58% 49%
Roxzone 62% 60%
Runs 45% 39%

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

Part by part

Part Michel Matthew
SkiErg 49% 44%
Sled push 98% 91%
Sled pull 86% 78%
Burpee broad jump 57% 99%
Row 66% 71%
Farmers carry 28% 90%
Sandbag lunges 61% 34%
Wall balls 58% 49%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 60%
Runs (8 km) 45% 39%

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

Michel · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:20:58
4:594:314:402:085:044:035:075:085:134:385:082:175:024:355:396:346:18
Matthew · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:21:02
5:324:335:102:245:084:175:123:085:204:365:001:355:085:245:217:006:21
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.Michel · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 40:52 running, 33:53 at the stations and 6:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:34) and the shortest the sled push (2:08).Below, Matthew · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 41:50 running, 32:56 at the stations and 6:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:00).

See the numbers
Part Michel · Ghent 2025 · Open Men Matthew · Ghent 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:59 5:32
SkiErg 4:31 4:33
Run 2 4:40 5:10
Sled push 2:08 2:24
Run 3 5:04 5:08
Sled pull 4:03 4:17
Run 4 5:07 5:12
Burpee broad jump 5:08 3:08
Run 5 5:13 5:20
Row 4:38 4:36
Run 6 5:08 5:00
Farmers carry 2:17 1:35
Run 7 5:02 5:08
Sandbag lunges 4:35 5:24
Run 8 5:39 5:21
Wall balls 6:34 7:00
Roxzone 6:18 6:21
Finish 1:20:58 1:21:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michel Matthew Gap
Ghent 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:20:58 1:21:02 0:04 · Michel faster
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