Alex vs Sander

NED NED · Open Men · 4 results

Alex van den Berg

1:18:38 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
613th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Sander Couperus

1:18:36 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
611th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men · Sander: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Sander sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Carry (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 28%).Sander: strongest on Push (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 15%).

See the numbers
Part Alex: faster than Sander: faster than
Ski 28% 84%
Push 54% 84%
Pull 69% 63%
BBJ 88% 42%
Row 67% 44%
Carry 98% 57%
Lunges 45% 15%
Wall balls 74% 49%
Roxzone 60% 81%
Runs 53% 75%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Sander
SkiErg 28% 84%
Sled push 54% 84%
Sled pull 69% 63%
Burpee broad jump 88% 42%
Row 67% 44%
Farmers carry 98% 57%
Sandbag lunges 45% 15%
Wall balls 74% 49%
Roxzone (moving) 60% 81%
Runs (8 km) 53% 75%

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

Alex · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:18:38
4:464:384:482:434:503:464:544:055:014:374:551:254:595:005:225:397:18
Sander · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:18:36
3:514:124:102:184:433:524:295:554:354:494:311:584:286:405:036:456:23
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.Alex · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 39:35 running, 31:53 at the stations and 7:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:39).Below, Sander · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 35:50 running, 36:30 at the stations and 6:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:45).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men Sander · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:46 3:51
SkiErg 4:38 4:12
Run 2 4:48 4:10
Sled push 2:43 2:18
Run 3 4:50 4:43
Sled pull 3:46 3:52
Run 4 4:54 4:29
Burpee broad jump 4:05 5:55
Run 5 5:01 4:35
Row 4:37 4:49
Run 6 4:55 4:31
Farmers carry 1:25 1:58
Run 7 4:59 4:28
Sandbag lunges 5:00 6:40
Run 8 5:22 5:03
Wall balls 5:39 6:45
Roxzone 7:18 6:23
Finish 1:18:38 1:18:36

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Sander Gap
Heerenveen 2026 Open Men · 17 May 2026 1:18:38 1:18:36 0:02 · Sander faster
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