Axel vs Romain

ESP ESP · Open Men · 7 results

Axel Canales

1:26:45 best Open Men time · Valencia 2025
870th of 1,474 place in that race · 1,474 Open Men finishers
FRA FRA · Open Men · 2 results

Romain Nizou

1:26:46 best Open Men time · Valencia 2025
871st of 1,474 place in that race · 1,474 Open Men finishers

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

Axel: Valencia 2025, Open Men · Romain: Valencia 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Axel and Romain sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Axel: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 27%).Romain: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part Axel: faster than Romain: faster than
Ski 34% 13%
Push 30% 54%
Pull 42% 25%
BBJ 48% 61%
Row 27% 14%
Carry 35% 75%
Lunges 34% 51%
Wall balls 72% 35%
Roxzone 30% 41%
Runs 36% 39%

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

Part by part

Part Axel Romain
SkiErg 34% 13%
Sled push 30% 54%
Sled pull 42% 25%
Burpee broad jump 48% 61%
Row 27% 14%
Farmers carry 35% 75%
Sandbag lunges 34% 51%
Wall balls 72% 35%
Roxzone (moving) 30% 41%
Runs (8 km) 36% 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

Axel · Valencia 2025 · Open Men1:26:45
5:174:405:073:425:145:045:195:035:305:005:112:245:195:365:525:396:55
Romain · Valencia 2025 · Open Men1:26:46
4:454:574:253:155:075:445:014:355:325:175:071:515:275:016:457:446:22
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.Axel · Valencia 2025 · Open Men: 42:49 running, 37:08 at the stations and 6:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:39).Below, Romain · Valencia 2025 · Open Men: 42:10 running, 38:23 at the stations and 6:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:44).

See the numbers
Part Axel · Valencia 2025 · Open Men Romain · Valencia 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:17 4:45
SkiErg 4:40 4:57
Run 2 5:07 4:25
Sled push 3:42 3:15
Run 3 5:14 5:07
Sled pull 5:04 5:44
Run 4 5:19 5:01
Burpee broad jump 5:03 4:35
Run 5 5:30 5:32
Row 5:00 5:17
Run 6 5:11 5:07
Farmers carry 2:24 1:51
Run 7 5:19 5:27
Sandbag lunges 5:36 5:01
Run 8 5:52 6:45
Wall balls 5:39 7:44
Roxzone 6:55 6:22
Finish 1:26:45 1:26:46

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Axel Romain Gap
Valencia 2025 Open Men · 18 Oct 2025 1:26:45 1:26:46 0:01 · Axel faster
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