Craig vs Matthew

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Craig Gardiner

58:40 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
29th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 12 results

Matthew Blackwell

1:00:38 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
29th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers

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

Craig: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Matthew: Manchester 2026, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
no split
CraigMatthewedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Craig and Matthew sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Craig: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 84%).Matthew: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 77%).

See the numbers
Part Craig: faster than Matthew: faster than
Ski 91% 98%
Push 84% 83%
Pull 97% 99%
BBJ 98% 91%
Row 97% 99%
Carry 94% 77%
Lunges 99% 84%
Wall balls 88% 97%
Roxzone 99% 99%
Runs no split 99%

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

Part by part

Part Craig Matthew
SkiErg 91% 98%
Sled push 84% 83%
Sled pull 97% 99%
Burpee broad jump 98% 91%
Row 97% 99%
Farmers carry 94% 77%
Sandbag lunges 99% 84%
Wall balls 88% 97%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 99%
Runs (8 km) — 99%

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

Craig · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men58:40
2:184:262:452:212:523:262:533:032:574:212:521:312:543:074:045:107:48
Matthew · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:00:38
2:493:573:522:183:572:544:023:274:084:064:071:514:114:103:244:093:22
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.Craig · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 23:35 running, 27:25 at the stations and 7:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:10).Below, Matthew · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 30:30 running, 26:52 at the stations and 3:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (4:10).

See the numbers
Part Craig · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Matthew · Manchester 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:18 2:49
SkiErg 4:26 3:57
Run 2 2:45 3:52
Sled push 2:21 2:18
Run 3 2:52 3:57
Sled pull 3:26 2:54
Run 4 2:53 4:02
Burpee broad jump 3:03 3:27
Run 5 2:57 4:08
Row 4:21 4:06
Run 6 2:52 4:07
Farmers carry 1:31 1:51
Run 7 2:54 4:11
Sandbag lunges 3:07 4:10
Run 8 4:04 3:24
Wall balls 5:10 4:09
Roxzone 7:48 3:22
Finish 58:40 1:00:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Craig Matthew Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:00:37 1:00:38 0:01 · Craig faster
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