Laura vs Michaela

GBR GBR · Open Women · 16 results

Laura Penny

1:46:37 best Pro Women time · Rimini 2025
83rd of 103 place in that race · 103 Pro Women finishers
GER GER · Pro Women · 6 results

Michaela Ressel

2:06:10 best Pro Women time · Berlin 2026
325th of 332 place in that race · 332 Pro Women finishers

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

Laura: Berlin 2025, Open Women · Michaela: Berlin 2026, Pro Women

Not the same division. Laura's race here is Open Women and Michaela's is Pro Women, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

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

This chart shows where Laura and Michaela sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Laura: strongest on Runs (faster than 49% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 8%).Michaela: strongest on Row (faster than 13% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 2%).

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Part Laura: faster than Michaela: faster than
Ski 17% 6%
Push 32% 8%
Pull 40% 2%
BBJ 36% 7%
Row 8% 13%
Carry 45% 11%
Lunges 32% 4%
Wall balls 21% 6%
Roxzone 39% no split
Runs 49% 2%

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

Part by part

Part Laura Michaela
SkiErg 17% 6%
Sled push 32% 8%
Sled pull 40% 2%
Burpee broad jump 36% 7%
Row 8% 13%
Farmers carry 45% 11%
Sandbag lunges 32% 4%
Wall balls 21% 6%
Roxzone (moving) 39% —
Runs (8 km) 49% 2%

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

Laura · Berlin 2025 · Open Women1:31:08
4:015:254:342:574:495:164:506:475:115:515:062:115:075:286:507:179:37
Michaela · Berlin 2026 · Pro Women2:06:10
4:365:235:195:515:268:295:487:435:375:315:453:495:598:0710:029:55
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.Laura · Berlin 2025 · Open Women: 40:28 running, 41:12 at the stations and 9:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:17).Below, Michaela · Berlin 2026 · Pro Women: 48:32 running and 54:49 at the stations; the longest station was the wall balls (9:55).

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Part Laura · Berlin 2025 · Open Women Michaela · Berlin 2026 · Pro Women
Run 1 4:01 4:36
SkiErg 5:25 5:23
Run 2 4:34 5:19
Sled push 2:57 5:51
Run 3 4:49 5:26
Sled pull 5:16 8:29
Run 4 4:50 5:48
Burpee broad jump 6:47 7:43
Run 5 5:11 5:37
Row 5:51 5:31
Run 6 5:06 5:45
Farmers carry 2:11 3:49
Run 7 5:07 5:59
Sandbag lunges 5:28 8:07
Run 8 6:50 10:02
Wall balls 7:17 9:55
Roxzone 9:37 —
Finish 1:31:08 2:06:10

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Laura Michaela Gap
Berlin 2026 Pro Women · 22 May 2026 2:07:05 2:06:10 0:55 · Michaela faster
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