Philip vs James

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Philip Botha

1:53:43 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
611th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

James Goddard

1:53:38 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
610th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Philip: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · James: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Philip and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Philip: strongest on Lunges (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 8%).James: strongest on Ski (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 18%).

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Part Philip: faster than James: faster than
Ski 15% 46%
Push 45% 22%
Pull 39% 29%
BBJ 26% 26%
Row 49% 35%
Carry 9% 19%
Lunges 76% 28%
Wall balls 50% 31%
Roxzone 70% 24%
Runs 8% 18%

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

Part by part

Part Philip James
SkiErg 15% 46%
Sled push 45% 22%
Sled pull 39% 29%
Burpee broad jump 26% 26%
Row 49% 35%
Farmers carry 9% 19%
Sandbag lunges 76% 28%
Wall balls 50% 31%
Roxzone (moving) 70% 24%
Runs (8 km) 8% 18%

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

Philip · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:53:43
3:164:538:213:118:515:429:017:349:225:028:563:038:544:398:597:546:13
James · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:53:38
6:024:298:503:519:036:166:087:306:515:176:342:446:386:367:499:399:29
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.Philip · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 1:05:40 running, 41:58 at the stations and 6:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:54).Below, James · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 57:55 running, 46:22 at the stations and 9:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:39).

See the numbers
Part Philip · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men James · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:16 6:02
SkiErg 4:53 4:29
Run 2 8:21 8:50
Sled push 3:11 3:51
Run 3 8:51 9:03
Sled pull 5:42 6:16
Run 4 9:01 6:08
Burpee broad jump 7:34 7:30
Run 5 9:22 6:51
Row 5:02 5:17
Run 6 8:56 6:34
Farmers carry 3:03 2:44
Run 7 8:54 6:38
Sandbag lunges 4:39 6:36
Run 8 8:59 7:49
Wall balls 7:54 9:39
Roxzone 6:13 9:29
Finish 1:53:43 1:53:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Philip James Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:53:43 1:53:38 0:05 · James faster
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