Mike vs Michael

PHI PHI · Open Men · 1 result

Mike Nelson

1:29:28 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3706th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Michael Stainer

1:25:42 best Open Men time · London 2025
1139th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers

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

Mike: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Michael: London 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mike and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mike: strongest on Push (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 15%).Michael: strongest on Pull (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 25%).

See the numbers
Part Mike: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 39% 53%
Push 64% 31%
Pull 42% 77%
BBJ 45% 29%
Row 15% 42%
Carry 22% 25%
Lunges 42% 40%
Wall balls 40% 26%
Roxzone 25% 35%
Runs 30% 47%

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

Part by part

Part Mike Michael
SkiErg 39% 53%
Sled push 64% 31%
Sled pull 42% 77%
Burpee broad jump 45% 29%
Row 15% 42%
Farmers carry 22% 25%
Sandbag lunges 42% 40%
Wall balls 40% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 35%
Runs (8 km) 30% 47%

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

Mike · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:29:28
3:494:564:052:384:215:024:345:444:505:274:292:294:065:276:128:0113:26
Michael · London 2025 · Open Men1:25:42
5:044:214:413:074:413:444:496:214:544:454:552:334:585:306:428:505:54
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.Mike · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:26 running, 39:43 at the stations and 13:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:01).Below, Michael · London 2025 · Open Men: 40:44 running, 39:11 at the stations and 5:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:50).

See the numbers
Part Mike · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Michael · London 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:49 5:04
SkiErg 4:56 4:21
Run 2 4:05 4:41
Sled push 2:38 3:07
Run 3 4:21 4:41
Sled pull 5:02 3:44
Run 4 4:34 4:49
Burpee broad jump 5:44 6:21
Run 5 4:50 4:54
Row 5:27 4:45
Run 6 4:29 4:55
Farmers carry 2:29 2:33
Run 7 4:06 4:58
Sandbag lunges 5:27 5:30
Run 8 6:12 6:42
Wall balls 8:01 8:50
Roxzone 13:26 5:54
Finish 1:29:28 1:25:42

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Michael Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:29:28 1:29:29 0:01 · Mike faster
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