Rob vs Cesar

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Rob Merrick

1:20:48 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
482nd of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers
PUR PUR · Open Men · 2 results

Cesar Velazquez Negron

1:16:53 best Open Men time · Washington DC 2026
490th of 2,855 place in that race · 2,855 Open Men finishers

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

Rob: Houston 2026, Open Men · Cesar: Washington DC 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Rob and Cesar sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Rob: strongest on Runs (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 26%).Cesar: strongest on Carry (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 60%).

See the numbers
Part Rob: faster than Cesar: faster than
Ski 64% 60%
Push 74% 71%
Pull 77% 91%
BBJ 26% 73%
Row 36% 67%
Carry 64% 91%
Lunges 86% 82%
Wall balls 50% 89%
Roxzone 74% 75%
Runs 90% 77%

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

Part by part

Part Rob Cesar
SkiErg 64% 60%
Sled push 74% 71%
Sled pull 77% 91%
Burpee broad jump 26% 73%
Row 36% 67%
Farmers carry 64% 91%
Sandbag lunges 86% 82%
Wall balls 50% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 75%
Runs (8 km) 90% 77%

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

Rob · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:20:48
4:354:334:122:484:204:524:297:134:265:114:162:064:264:134:387:476:51
Cesar · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men1:16:53
3:504:394:342:474:493:454:474:554:564:515:011:375:064:284:465:126:58
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.Rob · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 35:21 running, 38:43 at the stations and 6:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:47).Below, Cesar · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men: 37:49 running, 32:14 at the stations and 6:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:12).

See the numbers
Part Rob · Houston 2026 · Open Men Cesar · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:35 3:50
SkiErg 4:33 4:39
Run 2 4:12 4:34
Sled push 2:48 2:47
Run 3 4:20 4:49
Sled pull 4:52 3:45
Run 4 4:29 4:47
Burpee broad jump 7:13 4:55
Run 5 4:26 4:56
Row 5:11 4:51
Run 6 4:16 5:01
Farmers carry 2:06 1:37
Run 7 4:26 5:06
Sandbag lunges 4:13 4:28
Run 8 4:38 4:46
Wall balls 7:47 5:12
Roxzone 6:51 6:58
Finish 1:20:48 1:16:53

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Rob Cesar Gap
Houston 2026 Open Men · 26 Mar 2026 1:20:48 1:20:50 0:02 · Rob faster
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