Pieter vs Franko

RSA RSA · Pro Men · 11 results

Pieter Smith

1:03:35 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
8th of 191 place in that race · 191 Pro Men finishers
RSA RSA · Pro Men · 6 results

Franko van Zyl

1:03:06 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
10th of 178 place in that race · 178 Pro Men finishers

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

Pieter: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men · Franko: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
PieterFrankoedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Pieter and Franko sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Pieter: strongest on Lunges (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 75%).Franko: strongest on BBJ (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 78%).

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Part Pieter: faster than Franko: faster than
Ski 93% 98%
Push 75% 86%
Pull 94% 88%
BBJ 94% 99%
Row 95% 78%
Carry 96% 92%
Lunges 97% 96%
Wall balls 91% 85%
Roxzone 92% 81%
Runs 93% 97%

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

Part by part

Part Pieter Franko
SkiErg 93% 98%
Sled push 75% 86%
Sled pull 94% 88%
Burpee broad jump 94% 99%
Row 95% 78%
Farmers carry 96% 92%
Sandbag lunges 97% 96%
Wall balls 91% 85%
Roxzone (moving) 92% 81%
Runs (8 km) 93% 97%

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

Pieter · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:03:35
2:463:523:543:244:354:064:222:564:094:094:081:334:122:504:364:453:25
Franko · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:03:06
2:463:483:592:494:153:594:182:274:194:154:071:364:033:264:125:123:45
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.Pieter · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 32:42 running, 27:35 at the stations and 3:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:45).Below, Franko · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 31:59 running, 27:32 at the stations and 3:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:12).

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Part Pieter · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men Franko · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men
Run 1 2:46 2:46
SkiErg 3:52 3:48
Run 2 3:54 3:59
Sled push 3:24 2:49
Run 3 4:35 4:15
Sled pull 4:06 3:59
Run 4 4:22 4:18
Burpee broad jump 2:56 2:27
Run 5 4:09 4:19
Row 4:09 4:15
Run 6 4:08 4:07
Farmers carry 1:33 1:36
Run 7 4:12 4:03
Sandbag lunges 2:50 3:26
Run 8 4:36 4:12
Wall balls 4:45 5:12
Roxzone 3:25 3:45
Finish 1:03:35 1:03:06

Head to head: 3 races they both ran

Race Pieter Franko Gap
Cape Town 2026 Doubles Mixed · 15 Aug 2026 1:01:50 1:36:12 34:22 · Pieter faster
Cape Town 2026 Pro Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:03:36 1:03:06 0:30 · Franko faster
Cape Town 2026 Doubles Mixed · 4 Apr 2026 55:41 1:00:01 4:20 · Pieter faster
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