Ho-Chen vs Alex

HYROX · Open Men · 1 result

Ho-Chen Tsai

1:36:11 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
968th of 1,622 place in that race · 1,622 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Alex Valley

1:36:10 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
967th of 1,622 place in that race · 1,622 Open Men finishers

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

Ho-Chen: Chicago 2025, Open Men · Alex: Chicago 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
Ho-ChenAlexedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Ho-Chen and Alex sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ho-Chen: strongest on BBJ (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 24%).Alex: strongest on Lunges (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 4%).

See the numbers
Part Ho-Chen: faster than Alex: faster than
Ski 66% 85%
Push 65% 85%
Pull 39% 9%
BBJ 91% 22%
Row 68% 50%
Carry 56% 75%
Lunges 54% 89%
Wall balls 52% 42%
Roxzone 26% 4%
Runs 24% 60%

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

Part by part

Part Ho-Chen Alex
SkiErg 66% 85%
Sled push 65% 85%
Sled pull 39% 9%
Burpee broad jump 91% 22%
Row 68% 50%
Farmers carry 56% 75%
Sandbag lunges 54% 89%
Wall balls 52% 42%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 4%
Runs (8 km) 24% 60%

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

Ho-Chen · Chicago 2025 · Open Men1:36:11
4:004:225:392:226:145:326:354:146:474:436:242:046:435:149:327:288:27
Alex · Chicago 2025 · Open Men1:36:10
3:244:124:402:016:237:255:477:556:274:555:281:525:173:566:168:0812:14
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.Ho-Chen · Chicago 2025 · Open Men: 51:53 running, 35:59 at the stations and 8:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:28).Below, Alex · Chicago 2025 · Open Men: 43:42 running, 40:25 at the stations and 12:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:08).

See the numbers
Part Ho-Chen · Chicago 2025 · Open Men Alex · Chicago 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:00 3:24
SkiErg 4:22 4:12
Run 2 5:39 4:40
Sled push 2:22 2:01
Run 3 6:14 6:23
Sled pull 5:32 7:25
Run 4 6:35 5:47
Burpee broad jump 4:14 7:55
Run 5 6:47 6:27
Row 4:43 4:55
Run 6 6:24 5:28
Farmers carry 2:04 1:52
Run 7 6:43 5:17
Sandbag lunges 5:14 3:56
Run 8 9:32 6:16
Wall balls 7:28 8:08
Roxzone 8:27 12:14
Finish 1:36:11 1:36:10

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ho-Chen Alex Gap
Chicago 2025 Open Men · 14 Nov 2025 1:36:11 1:36:10 0:01 · Alex faster
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