James vs Hugh

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

James Theobald

1:42:41 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4786th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Hugh Smith

1:42:37 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4784th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Hugh: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Hugh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Carry (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 4%).Hugh: strongest on Ski (faster than 52% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 8%).

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Part James: faster than Hugh: faster than
Ski 7% 52%
Push 24% 11%
Pull 9% 15%
BBJ 4% 17%
Row 9% 17%
Carry 44% 13%
Lunges 7% 8%
Wall balls 15% 13%
Roxzone 33% 21%
Runs 24% 18%

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

Part by part

Part James Hugh
SkiErg 7% 52%
Sled push 24% 11%
Sled pull 9% 15%
Burpee broad jump 4% 17%
Row 9% 17%
Farmers carry 44% 13%
Sandbag lunges 7% 8%
Wall balls 15% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 33% 21%
Runs (8 km) 24% 18%

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

James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:42:41
3:495:274:123:144:316:434:239:544:325:384:322:074:388:167:0211:0212:50
Hugh · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:42:37
3:154:494:103:404:236:124:307:324:575:235:222:464:598:057:3011:2113:51
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.James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:38 running, 52:21 at the stations and 12:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:02).Below, Hugh · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 39:06 running, 49:48 at the stations and 13:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:21).

See the numbers
Part James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Hugh · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:49 3:15
SkiErg 5:27 4:49
Run 2 4:12 4:10
Sled push 3:14 3:40
Run 3 4:31 4:23
Sled pull 6:43 6:12
Run 4 4:23 4:30
Burpee broad jump 9:54 7:32
Run 5 4:32 4:57
Row 5:38 5:23
Run 6 4:32 5:22
Farmers carry 2:07 2:46
Run 7 4:38 4:59
Sandbag lunges 8:16 8:05
Run 8 7:02 7:30
Wall balls 11:02 11:21
Roxzone 12:50 13:51
Finish 1:42:41 1:42:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Hugh Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:42:41 1:42:37 0:04 · Hugh faster
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