Paul vs Markus

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Paul Vowles

1:20:57 best Open Men time · Copenhagen 2025
593rd of 1,322 place in that race · 1,322 Open Men finishers
SWE SWE · Open Men · 9 results

Markus Nylander

1:15:37 best Open Men time · Warsaw 2025
415th of 1,483 place in that race · 1,483 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Copenhagen 2025, Open Men · Markus: Warsaw 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Markus sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Pull (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 25%).Markus: strongest on Push (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 40%).

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Part Paul: faster than Markus: faster than
Ski 46% 68%
Push 25% 92%
Pull 70% 70%
BBJ 44% 59%
Row 46% 72%
Carry 42% 84%
Lunges 52% 40%
Wall balls 44% 71%
Roxzone 70% 82%
Runs 54% 67%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Markus
SkiErg 46% 68%
Sled push 25% 92%
Sled pull 70% 70%
Burpee broad jump 44% 59%
Row 46% 72%
Farmers carry 42% 84%
Sandbag lunges 52% 40%
Wall balls 44% 71%
Roxzone (moving) 70% 82%
Runs (8 km) 54% 67%

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

Paul · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Men1:20:57
5:134:324:253:264:363:544:395:295:054:514:532:074:584:575:376:255:59
Markus · Warsaw 2025 · Open Men1:15:37
3:354:214:591:565:003:555:055:105:304:345:161:375:265:094:335:164:23
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.Paul · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Men: 39:26 running, 35:41 at the stations and 5:59 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:25).Below, Markus · Warsaw 2025 · Open Men: 39:23 running, 31:59 at the stations and 4:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:16).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Men Markus · Warsaw 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:13 3:35
SkiErg 4:32 4:21
Run 2 4:25 4:59
Sled push 3:26 1:56
Run 3 4:36 5:00
Sled pull 3:54 3:55
Run 4 4:39 5:05
Burpee broad jump 5:29 5:10
Run 5 5:05 5:30
Row 4:51 4:34
Run 6 4:53 5:16
Farmers carry 2:07 1:37
Run 7 4:58 5:26
Sandbag lunges 4:57 5:09
Run 8 5:37 4:33
Wall balls 6:25 5:16
Roxzone 5:59 4:23
Finish 1:20:57 1:15:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Markus Gap
Copenhagen 2025 Open Men · 14 Mar 2025 1:20:57 1:20:56 0:01 · Markus faster
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