Curtis vs Carl

RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Curtis Chalmers

1:39:21 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
394th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Carl van der Merwe

1:39:18 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
392nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Curtis: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Carl: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Curtis and Carl sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Curtis: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).Carl: strongest on Lunges (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 6%).

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Part Curtis: faster than Carl: faster than
Ski 18% 44%
Push 36% 6%
Pull 26% 31%
BBJ 55% 28%
Row 10% 41%
Carry 3% 22%
Lunges 57% 54%
Wall balls 71% 45%
Roxzone 31% 24%
Runs 40% 51%

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

Part by part

Part Curtis Carl
SkiErg 18% 44%
Sled push 36% 6%
Sled pull 26% 31%
Burpee broad jump 55% 28%
Row 10% 41%
Farmers carry 3% 22%
Sandbag lunges 57% 54%
Wall balls 71% 45%
Roxzone (moving) 31% 24%
Runs (8 km) 40% 51%

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

Curtis · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:39:21
4:134:575:553:096:145:536:165:586:245:496:334:176:465:406:596:228:04
Carl · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:39:18
3:554:365:124:306:115:395:367:336:165:046:152:596:275:466:398:078:40
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.Curtis · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 49:20 running, 42:05 at the stations and 8:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:22) and the shortest the sled push (3:09).Below, Carl · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 46:31 running, 44:14 at the stations and 8:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:07).

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Part Curtis · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Carl · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:13 3:55
SkiErg 4:57 4:36
Run 2 5:55 5:12
Sled push 3:09 4:30
Run 3 6:14 6:11
Sled pull 5:53 5:39
Run 4 6:16 5:36
Burpee broad jump 5:58 7:33
Run 5 6:24 6:16
Row 5:49 5:04
Run 6 6:33 6:15
Farmers carry 4:17 2:59
Run 7 6:46 6:27
Sandbag lunges 5:40 5:46
Run 8 6:59 6:39
Wall balls 6:22 8:07
Roxzone 8:04 8:40
Finish 1:39:21 1:39:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Curtis Carl Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:39:21 1:39:18 0:03 · Carl faster
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