Bruce vs Matt

USA USA · Open Men · 5 results

Bruce Eckel

1:43:02 best Open Men time · New York 2025
1520th of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Matt Kolb

1:44:14 best Open Men time · New York 2026
3288th of 4,637 place in that race · 4,637 Open Men finishers

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

Bruce: New York 2025, Open Men · Matt: New York 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzone
no split
Runs
no split
BruceMattedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Bruce and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Bruce: strongest on Pull (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 16%).Matt: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 16%).

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Part Bruce: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 25% 32%
Push 25% 48%
Pull 77% 16%
BBJ 16% 16%
Row 22% 18%
Carry 55% 19%
Lunges 23% 49%
Wall balls 51% 68%
Roxzone no split 22%
Runs no split 27%

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

Part by part

Part Bruce Matt
SkiErg 25% 32%
Sled push 25% 48%
Sled pull 77% 16%
Burpee broad jump 16% 16%
Row 22% 18%
Farmers carry 55% 19%
Sandbag lunges 23% 49%
Wall balls 51% 68%
Roxzone (moving) — 22%
Runs (8 km) — 27%

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

Bruce · New York 2025 · Open Men1:43:02
5:504:485:552:546:163:306:217:265:172:176:346:55
Matt · New York 2026 · Open Men1:44:14
5:214:474:563:106:146:266:258:146:515:336:043:076:085:469:346:349:13
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.Bruce · New York 2025 · Open Men: 24:22 running and 39:41 at the stations; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:26).Below, Matt · New York 2026 · Open Men: 51:33 running, 43:37 at the stations and 9:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:14).

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Part Bruce · New York 2025 · Open Men Matt · New York 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:50 5:21
SkiErg 4:48 4:47
Run 2 5:55 4:56
Sled push 2:54 3:10
Run 3 6:16 6:14
Sled pull 3:30 6:26
Run 4 6:21 6:25
Burpee broad jump 7:26 8:14
Run 5 — 6:51
Row 5:17 5:33
Run 6 — 6:04
Farmers carry 2:17 3:07
Run 7 — 6:08
Sandbag lunges 6:34 5:46
Run 8 — 9:34
Wall balls 6:55 6:34
Roxzone — 9:13
Finish 1:43:02 1:44:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Bruce Matt Gap
New York 2026 Open Men · 28 May 2026 1:44:15 1:44:14 0:01 · Matt faster
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