Sam vs Josh

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 · 3 results

Josh Bowyer

1:18:33 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
788th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: Cardiff 2025, Open Men · Josh: Cardiff 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Josh 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%).Josh: strongest on Runs (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 19%).

See the numbers
Part Sam: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 5% 73%
Push 15% 41%
Pull 42% 53%
BBJ 80% 59%
Row 40% 70%
Carry 27% 57%
Lunges 92% 41%
Wall balls 33% 19%
Roxzone 71% 70%
Runs 70% 80%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Josh
SkiErg 5% 73%
Sled push 15% 41%
Sled pull 42% 53%
Burpee broad jump 80% 59%
Row 40% 70%
Farmers carry 27% 57%
Sandbag lunges 92% 41%
Wall balls 33% 19%
Roxzone (moving) 71% 70%
Runs (8 km) 70% 80%

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
Josh · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:18:33
4:364:234:093:084:074:394:145:394:384:374:242:024:275:035:168:574:14
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, Josh · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 35:51 running, 38:28 at the stations and 4:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:57).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men Josh · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:04 4:36
SkiErg 5:09 4:23
Run 2 4:31 4:09
Sled push 3:37 3:08
Run 3 4:37 4:07
Sled pull 4:56 4:39
Run 4 4:29 4:14
Burpee broad jump 4:46 5:39
Run 5 4:29 4:38
Row 4:53 4:37
Run 6 4:29 4:24
Farmers carry 2:28 2:02
Run 7 4:18 4:27
Sandbag lunges 3:33 5:03
Run 8 5:24 5:16
Wall balls 7:39 8:57
Roxzone 4:12 4:14
Finish 1:18:34 1:18:33

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Josh Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 1:18:34 1:18:33 0:01 · Josh faster
The RoxHype app

Close the gap at your next race.

The RoxHype app is your training plan to race day: built from your splits, your kit and your race date, and adjusted every week.

  • A week-by-week plan that counts down to your race
  • Extra work on your slowest stations
  • Adjusts every week to what you actually did

Free to download. Used by more than 40,000 HYROX athletes.

RoxHype app home: days to your HYROX, your expected finish range and this week's sessions RoxHype workout player guiding a sled push, with the next exercise lined up