Michelle vs Melanie

GBR GBR · Open Women · 1 result

Michelle Smith

1:51:37 best Open Women time · Birmingham 2024
1180th of 1,410 place in that race · 1,410 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Melanie Cox

1:38:45 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
1971st of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers

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

Michelle: Birmingham 2024, Open Women · Melanie: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Michelle and Melanie sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michelle: strongest on Pull (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 12%).Melanie: strongest on Carry (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 13%).

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Part Michelle: faster than Melanie: faster than
Ski 31% 45%
Push 24% 15%
Pull 71% 57%
BBJ 13% 33%
Row 51% 58%
Carry 34% 69%
Lunges 13% 41%
Wall balls 41% 13%
Roxzone 15% 45%
Runs 12% 35%

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

Part by part

Part Michelle Melanie
SkiErg 31% 45%
Sled push 24% 15%
Sled pull 71% 57%
Burpee broad jump 13% 33%
Row 51% 58%
Farmers carry 34% 69%
Sandbag lunges 13% 41%
Wall balls 41% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 45%
Runs (8 km) 12% 35%

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

Michelle · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women1:51:37
7:185:176:203:046:185:026:2410:147:215:256:482:267:106:587:497:1310:38
Melanie · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:38:45
4:025:364:363:264:525:225:007:424:565:294:472:014:545:207:0510:1613:30
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.Michelle · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women: 55:28 running, 45:39 at the stations and 10:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (10:14).Below, Melanie · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 40:11 running, 45:12 at the stations and 13:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:16).

See the numbers
Part Michelle · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women Melanie · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 7:18 4:02
SkiErg 5:17 5:36
Run 2 6:20 4:36
Sled push 3:04 3:26
Run 3 6:18 4:52
Sled pull 5:02 5:22
Run 4 6:24 5:00
Burpee broad jump 10:14 7:42
Run 5 7:21 4:56
Row 5:25 5:29
Run 6 6:48 4:47
Farmers carry 2:26 2:01
Run 7 7:10 4:54
Sandbag lunges 6:58 5:20
Run 8 7:49 7:05
Wall balls 7:13 10:16
Roxzone 10:38 13:30
Finish 1:51:37 1:38:45

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michelle Melanie Gap
Birmingham 2024 Open Women · 25 Oct 2024 1:51:37 1:51:43 0:06 · Michelle faster
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