Mark vs John

NZL NZL · Pro Men · 1 result

Mark Swanepoel

1:27:17 best Pro Men time · Sydney 2024
94th of 129 place in that race · 129 Pro Men finishers
AUS AUS · Pro Men · 6 results

John Salter

1:21:50 best Pro Men time · Melbourne 2025
422nd of 740 place in that race · 740 Pro Men finishers

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

Mark: Sydney 2024, Pro Men · John: Melbourne 2025, Pro Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on BBJ (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 11%).John: strongest on Ski (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 19%).

See the numbers
Part Mark: faster than John: faster than
Ski 54% 85%
Push 29% 67%
Pull 50% 45%
BBJ 65% 42%
Row 37% 61%
Carry 27% 47%
Lunges 38% 19%
Wall balls 33% 65%
Roxzone 26% 34%
Runs 11% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Mark John
SkiErg 54% 85%
Sled push 29% 67%
Sled pull 50% 45%
Burpee broad jump 65% 42%
Row 37% 61%
Farmers carry 27% 47%
Sandbag lunges 38% 19%
Wall balls 33% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 34%
Runs (8 km) 11% 34%

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

Mark · Sydney 2024 · Pro Men1:27:17
4:014:124:543:125:166:165:493:495:554:335:492:126:035:327:027:225:27
John · Melbourne 2025 · Pro Men1:21:50
2:304:024:233:034:506:004:484:324:554:254:482:064:446:315:535:508:38
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.Mark · Sydney 2024 · Pro Men: 44:50 running, 37:08 at the stations and 5:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:22).Below, John · Melbourne 2025 · Pro Men: 36:50 running, 36:29 at the stations and 8:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:31).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Sydney 2024 · Pro Men John · Melbourne 2025 · Pro Men
Run 1 4:01 2:30
SkiErg 4:12 4:02
Run 2 4:54 4:23
Sled push 3:12 3:03
Run 3 5:16 4:50
Sled pull 6:16 6:00
Run 4 5:49 4:48
Burpee broad jump 3:49 4:32
Run 5 5:55 4:55
Row 4:33 4:25
Run 6 5:49 4:48
Farmers carry 2:12 2:06
Run 7 6:03 4:44
Sandbag lunges 5:32 6:31
Run 8 7:02 5:53
Wall balls 7:22 5:50
Roxzone 5:27 8:38
Finish 1:27:17 1:21:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark John Gap
Sydney 2024 Pro Men · 27 Jul 2024 1:27:17 1:26:39 0:38 · John faster
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