Kyle vs Herman

ZIM ZIM · Open Men · 2 results

Kyle Nielsen

1:25:12 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2025
776th of 1,476 place in that race · 1,476 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 5 results

Herman Shao

1:22:53 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
838th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers

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

Kyle: Maastricht 2025, Open Men · Herman: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kyle and Herman sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kyle: strongest on Lunges (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 15%).Herman: strongest on BBJ (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 30%).

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Part Kyle: faster than Herman: faster than
Ski 78% 88%
Push 74% 65%
Pull 28% 64%
BBJ 43% 88%
Row 15% 71%
Carry 55% 40%
Lunges 82% 71%
Wall balls 50% 64%
Roxzone 35% 30%
Runs 48% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Kyle Herman
SkiErg 78% 88%
Sled push 74% 65%
Sled pull 28% 64%
Burpee broad jump 43% 88%
Row 15% 71%
Farmers carry 55% 40%
Sandbag lunges 82% 71%
Wall balls 50% 64%
Roxzone (moving) 35% 30%
Runs (8 km) 48% 34%

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

Kyle · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men1:25:12
6:334:136:212:205:164:585:265:505:125:101:552:443:575:045:527:49
Herman · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:22:53
4:424:104:432:345:123:515:134:045:204:355:142:095:414:156:236:058:52
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.Kyle · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men: 36:34 running, 34:17 at the stations and 7:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:52).Below, Herman · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 42:28 running, 31:43 at the stations and 8:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:05).

See the numbers
Part Kyle · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men Herman · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:33 4:42
SkiErg 4:13 4:10
Run 2 6:21 4:43
Sled push 2:20 2:34
Run 3 5:16 5:12
Sled pull 4:58 3:51
Run 4 5:26 5:13
Burpee broad jump 5:50 4:04
Run 5 — 5:20
Row 5:12 4:35
Run 6 5:10 5:14
Farmers carry 1:55 2:09
Run 7 2:44 5:41
Sandbag lunges 3:57 4:15
Run 8 5:04 6:23
Wall balls 5:52 6:05
Roxzone 7:49 8:52
Finish 1:25:12 1:22:53

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Kyle Herman Gap
Utrecht 2025 Open Men · 28 Nov 2025 1:25:53 1:25:53 level
Maastricht 2025 Open Men · 1 Feb 2025 1:25:12 1:26:39 1:27 · Kyle faster
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