Frans vs Hedley

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Frans van der Merwe

1:15:50 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
82nd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Hedley Gerhardt

1:14:31 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2024
38th of 247 place in that race · 247 Open Men finishers

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

Frans: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Hedley: Cape Town 2024, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPull
no split
BBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
FransHedleyedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Frans and Hedley sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Frans: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 3%).Hedley: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 1%).

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Part Frans: faster than Hedley: faster than
Ski 99% 99%
Push 99% 1%
Pull 3% no split
BBJ 96% 90%
Row 56% 92%
Carry 76% 88%
Lunges 99% 84%
Wall balls 61% 99%
Roxzone 88% 77%
Runs 96% 84%

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

Part by part

Part Frans Hedley
SkiErg 99% 99%
Sled push 99% 1%
Sled pull 3% —
Burpee broad jump 96% 90%
Row 56% 92%
Farmers carry 76% 88%
Sandbag lunges 99% 84%
Wall balls 61% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 88% 77%
Runs (8 km) 96% 84%

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

Frans · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:15:50
2:323:533:481:454:579:244:263:365:134:584:441:524:213:194:487:105:14
Hedley · Cape Town 2024 · Open Men1:14:31
4:273:494:256:464:404:534:045:014:254:561:434:554:105:274:045:47
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.Frans · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 34:49 running, 35:58 at the stations and 5:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (9:24) and the shortest the sled push (1:45).Below, Hedley · Cape Town 2024 · Open Men: 38:44 running, 29:02 at the stations and 5:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled push (6:46).

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Part Frans · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Hedley · Cape Town 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 2:32 4:27
SkiErg 3:53 3:49
Run 2 3:48 4:25
Sled push 1:45 6:46
Run 3 4:57 4:40
Sled pull 9:24 —
Run 4 4:26 4:53
Burpee broad jump 3:36 4:04
Run 5 5:13 5:01
Row 4:58 4:25
Run 6 4:44 4:56
Farmers carry 1:52 1:43
Run 7 4:21 4:55
Sandbag lunges 3:19 4:10
Run 8 4:48 5:27
Wall balls 7:10 4:04
Roxzone 5:14 5:47
Finish 1:15:50 1:14:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Frans Hedley Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:15:50 1:15:17 0:33 · Hedley faster
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