Eric vs Graham

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Eric Shen

1:30:42 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
283rd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Graham Matthews

1:30:41 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
282nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Eric: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Graham: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
EricGrahamedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Eric and Graham sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Eric: strongest on Carry (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 33%).Graham: strongest on Runs (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 9%).

See the numbers
Part Eric: faster than Graham: faster than
Ski 60% 67%
Push 57% 14%
Pull 33% 60%
BBJ 70% 48%
Row 81% 59%
Carry 93% 48%
Lunges 51% 46%
Wall balls 50% 9%
Roxzone 48% 67%
Runs 52% 87%

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

Part by part

Part Eric Graham
SkiErg 60% 67%
Sled push 57% 14%
Sled pull 33% 60%
Burpee broad jump 70% 48%
Row 81% 59%
Farmers carry 93% 48%
Sandbag lunges 51% 46%
Wall balls 50% 9%
Roxzone (moving) 48% 67%
Runs (8 km) 52% 87%

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

Eric · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:30:42
3:324:278:192:455:295:295:295:065:504:375:431:425:455:556:197:386:46
Graham · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:30:41
5:144:244:423:504:364:374:346:174:524:514:422:244:416:115:0014:205:34
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.Eric · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 46:26 running, 37:39 at the stations and 6:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:38).Below, Graham · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 38:21 running, 46:53 at the stations and 5:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:20).

See the numbers
Part Eric · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Graham · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:32 5:14
SkiErg 4:27 4:24
Run 2 8:19 4:42
Sled push 2:45 3:50
Run 3 5:29 4:36
Sled pull 5:29 4:37
Run 4 5:29 4:34
Burpee broad jump 5:06 6:17
Run 5 5:50 4:52
Row 4:37 4:51
Run 6 5:43 4:42
Farmers carry 1:42 2:24
Run 7 5:45 4:41
Sandbag lunges 5:55 6:11
Run 8 6:19 5:00
Wall balls 7:38 14:20
Roxzone 6:46 5:34
Finish 1:30:42 1:30:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Eric Graham Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:30:42 1:30:41 0:01 · Graham faster
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