Frans vs Vincent

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 · 5 results

Vincent Abendanon

1:15:57 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
83rd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Frans: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Vincent: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Frans and Vincent 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%).Vincent: strongest on Pull (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 64%).

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Part Frans: faster than Vincent: faster than
Ski 99% 78%
Push 99% 72%
Pull 3% 94%
BBJ 96% 83%
Row 56% 92%
Carry 76% 64%
Lunges 99% 81%
Wall balls 61% 82%
Roxzone 88% 77%
Runs 96% 87%

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

Part by part

Part Frans Vincent
SkiErg 99% 78%
Sled push 99% 72%
Sled pull 3% 94%
Burpee broad jump 96% 83%
Row 56% 92%
Farmers carry 76% 64%
Sandbag lunges 99% 81%
Wall balls 61% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 88% 77%
Runs (8 km) 96% 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

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
Vincent · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:15:57
3:244:134:352:404:523:445:014:265:134:294:562:014:504:295:415:435:49
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, Vincent · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 38:32 running, 31:45 at the stations and 5:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:43).

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Part Frans · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Vincent · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:32 3:24
SkiErg 3:53 4:13
Run 2 3:48 4:35
Sled push 1:45 2:40
Run 3 4:57 4:52
Sled pull 9:24 3:44
Run 4 4:26 5:01
Burpee broad jump 3:36 4:26
Run 5 5:13 5:13
Row 4:58 4:29
Run 6 4:44 4:56
Farmers carry 1:52 2:01
Run 7 4:21 4:50
Sandbag lunges 3:19 4:29
Run 8 4:48 5:41
Wall balls 7:10 5:43
Roxzone 5:14 5:49
Finish 1:15:50 1:15:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Frans Vincent Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:15:50 1:15:57 0:07 · Frans faster
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