Chris vs Niels

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Chris Russell

1:28:04 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2025
1326th of 2,469 place in that race · 2,469 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Niels Zuidema

1:28:05 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2025
1327th of 2,469 place in that race · 2,469 Open Men finishers

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

Chris: Rotterdam 2025, Open Men · Niels: Rotterdam 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Chris and Niels sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Chris: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 17%).Niels: strongest on BBJ (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 33%).

See the numbers
Part Chris: faster than Niels: faster than
Ski 38% 34%
Push 20% 42%
Pull 28% 42%
BBJ 17% 86%
Row 43% 36%
Carry 52% 60%
Lunges 31% 38%
Wall balls 45% 50%
Roxzone 75% 57%
Runs 55% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Chris Niels
SkiErg 38% 34%
Sled push 20% 42%
Sled pull 28% 42%
Burpee broad jump 17% 86%
Row 43% 36%
Farmers carry 52% 60%
Sandbag lunges 31% 38%
Wall balls 45% 50%
Roxzone (moving) 75% 57%
Runs (8 km) 55% 33%

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

Chris · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men1:28:04
5:384:315:013:215:095:515:127:355:234:485:082:065:105:505:316:095:49
Niels · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men1:28:05
5:414:338:202:565:255:215:174:205:104:535:062:015:265:305:426:006:32
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.Chris · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men: 42:12 running, 40:11 at the stations and 5:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:35).Below, Niels · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men: 46:07 running, 35:34 at the stations and 6:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:00).

See the numbers
Part Chris · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men Niels · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:38 5:41
SkiErg 4:31 4:33
Run 2 5:01 8:20
Sled push 3:21 2:56
Run 3 5:09 5:25
Sled pull 5:51 5:21
Run 4 5:12 5:17
Burpee broad jump 7:35 4:20
Run 5 5:23 5:10
Row 4:48 4:53
Run 6 5:08 5:06
Farmers carry 2:06 2:01
Run 7 5:10 5:26
Sandbag lunges 5:50 5:30
Run 8 5:31 5:42
Wall balls 6:09 6:00
Roxzone 5:49 6:32
Finish 1:28:04 1:28:05

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Chris Niels Gap
Rotterdam 2025 Open Men · 27 Feb 2025 1:28:04 1:28:05 0:01 · Chris faster
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