Sam vs Matt

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Sam Cottrell

1:18:34 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
790th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Matt Pilling

1:16:28 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1724th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · Matt: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Lunges (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 5%).Matt: strongest on BBJ (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 16%).

See the numbers
Part Sam: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 5% 75%
Push 15% 60%
Pull 42% 84%
BBJ 80% 87%
Row 40% 67%
Carry 27% 16%
Lunges 92% 55%
Wall balls 33% 69%
Roxzone 71% 70%
Runs 70% 60%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Matt
SkiErg 5% 75%
Sled push 15% 60%
Sled pull 42% 84%
Burpee broad jump 80% 87%
Row 40% 67%
Farmers carry 27% 16%
Sandbag lunges 92% 55%
Wall balls 33% 69%
Roxzone (moving) 71% 70%
Runs (8 km) 70% 60%

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

Sam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:18:34
5:045:094:313:374:374:564:294:464:294:534:292:284:183:335:247:394:12
Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:16:28
2:474:373:282:414:033:563:553:564:004:464:032:384:064:595:486:1210:40
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.Sam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 37:21 running, 37:01 at the stations and 4:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:39).Below, Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 32:10 running, 33:44 at the stations and 10:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:12).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men Matt · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:04 2:47
SkiErg 5:09 4:37
Run 2 4:31 3:28
Sled push 3:37 2:41
Run 3 4:37 4:03
Sled pull 4:56 3:56
Run 4 4:29 3:55
Burpee broad jump 4:46 3:56
Run 5 4:29 4:00
Row 4:53 4:46
Run 6 4:29 4:03
Farmers carry 2:28 2:38
Run 7 4:18 4:06
Sandbag lunges 3:33 4:59
Run 8 5:24 5:48
Wall balls 7:39 6:12
Roxzone 4:12 10:40
Finish 1:18:34 1:16:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Matt Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 1:18:34 1:18:34 level
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