Jacob vs Matthew

IMN IMN · Open Men · 2 results

Jacob Ball

2:22:24 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
1183rd of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Matthew Preston

2:22:40 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
1184th of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers

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

Jacob: Manchester 2025, Open Men · Matthew: Manchester 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Jacob and Matthew sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jacob: strongest on Push (faster than 18% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).Matthew: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 10% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).

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Part Jacob: faster than Matthew: faster than
Ski 11% 6%
Push 18% 3%
Pull 1% 1%
BBJ 0% 0%
Row 4% 6%
Carry 2% 6%
Lunges 3% 3%
Wall balls 2% 10%
Roxzone 1% 1%
Runs 1% 1%

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

Part by part

Part Jacob Matthew
SkiErg 11% 6%
Sled push 18% 3%
Sled pull 1% 1%
Burpee broad jump 0% 0%
Row 4% 6%
Farmers carry 2% 6%
Sandbag lunges 3% 3%
Wall balls 2% 10%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 1%
Runs (8 km) 1% 1%

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

Jacob · Manchester 2025 · Open Men2:22:24
3:554:426:553:127:159:337:4514:048:295:287:463:387:369:1815:1613:3813:56
Matthew · Manchester 2025 · Open Men2:22:40
5:304:498:083:588:447:589:2115:229:195:219:063:108:558:579:0410:2014:40
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.Jacob · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 1:04:58 running, 1:03:33 at the stations and 13:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (14:04) and the shortest the sled push (3:12).Below, Matthew · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 1:08:07 running, 59:56 at the stations and 14:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:22).

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Part Jacob · Manchester 2025 · Open Men Matthew · Manchester 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:55 5:30
SkiErg 4:42 4:49
Run 2 6:55 8:08
Sled push 3:12 3:58
Run 3 7:15 8:44
Sled pull 9:33 7:58
Run 4 7:45 9:21
Burpee broad jump 14:04 15:22
Run 5 8:29 9:19
Row 5:28 5:21
Run 6 7:46 9:06
Farmers carry 3:38 3:10
Run 7 7:36 8:55
Sandbag lunges 9:18 8:57
Run 8 15:16 9:04
Wall balls 13:38 10:20
Roxzone 13:56 14:40
Finish 2:22:24 2:22:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Jacob Matthew Gap
Manchester 2025 Open Men · 24 Jan 2025 2:22:24 2:22:40 0:16 · Jacob faster
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