Mike vs Damian

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 · 10 results

Damian Prestwich

1:22:46 best Open Men time · Rome 2026
1257th of 2,820 place in that race · 2,820 Open Men finishers

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

Mike: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Damian: Rome 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mike and Damian 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%).Damian: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 17%).

See the numbers
Part Mike: faster than Damian: faster than
Ski 39% 17%
Push 64% 54%
Pull 42% 63%
BBJ 45% 58%
Row 15% 44%
Carry 22% 65%
Lunges 42% 38%
Wall balls 40% 54%
Roxzone 25% 42%
Runs 30% 57%

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

Part by part

Part Mike Damian
SkiErg 39% 17%
Sled push 64% 54%
Sled pull 42% 63%
Burpee broad jump 45% 58%
Row 15% 44%
Farmers carry 22% 65%
Sandbag lunges 42% 38%
Wall balls 40% 54%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 42%
Runs (8 km) 30% 57%

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
Damian · Rome 2026 · Open Men1:22:46
6:164:514:143:204:234:264:265:114:355:024:282:014:375:485:166:407:21
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.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, Damian · Rome 2026 · Open Men: 38:15 running, 37:19 at the stations and 7:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:40).

See the numbers
Part Mike · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Damian · Rome 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:49 6:16
SkiErg 4:56 4:51
Run 2 4:05 4:14
Sled push 2:38 3:20
Run 3 4:21 4:23
Sled pull 5:02 4:26
Run 4 4:34 4:26
Burpee broad jump 5:44 5:11
Run 5 4:50 4:35
Row 5:27 5:02
Run 6 4:29 4:28
Farmers carry 2:29 2:01
Run 7 4:06 4:37
Sandbag lunges 5:27 5:48
Run 8 6:12 5:16
Wall balls 8:01 6:40
Roxzone 13:26 7:21
Finish 1:29:28 1:22:46

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mike Damian Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:29:28 1:29:28 level
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