Paul vs Gareth

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Paul Taylor

1:27:58 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
1547th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Gareth Davies

1:13:49 best Open Men time · London 2025
479th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Birmingham 2024, Open Men · Gareth: London 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Gareth sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Pull (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 19%).Gareth: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 34%).

See the numbers
Part Paul: faster than Gareth: faster than
Ski 63% 60%
Push 39% 97%
Pull 86% 95%
BBJ 75% 34%
Row 84% 46%
Carry 53% 73%
Lunges 85% 78%
Wall balls 67% 74%
Roxzone 19% 80%
Runs 22% 70%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Gareth
SkiErg 63% 60%
Sled push 39% 97%
Sled pull 86% 95%
Burpee broad jump 75% 34%
Row 84% 46%
Farmers carry 53% 73%
Sandbag lunges 85% 78%
Wall balls 67% 74%
Roxzone (moving) 19% 80%
Runs (8 km) 22% 70%

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

Paul · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:27:58
5:484:185:043:015:313:545:314:475:584:265:472:055:463:576:405:569:37
Gareth · London 2025 · Open Men1:13:49
4:244:184:152:034:213:134:286:004:364:434:311:534:354:155:575:564:29
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.Paul · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 46:06 running, 32:23 at the stations and 9:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:56).Below, Gareth · London 2025 · Open Men: 37:07 running, 32:21 at the stations and 4:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:00).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men Gareth · London 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:48 4:24
SkiErg 4:18 4:18
Run 2 5:04 4:15
Sled push 3:01 2:03
Run 3 5:31 4:21
Sled pull 3:54 3:13
Run 4 5:31 4:28
Burpee broad jump 4:47 6:00
Run 5 5:58 4:36
Row 4:26 4:43
Run 6 5:47 4:31
Farmers carry 2:05 1:53
Run 7 5:46 4:35
Sandbag lunges 3:57 4:15
Run 8 6:40 5:57
Wall balls 5:56 5:56
Roxzone 9:37 4:29
Finish 1:27:58 1:13:49

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Paul Gareth Gap
Birmingham 2024 Open Men · 25 Oct 2024 1:27:58 1:27:57 0:01 · Gareth faster
Birmingham 2024 Open Men · 25 Oct 2024 1:41:11 1:27:57 13:14 · Gareth faster
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