Melissa vs Anneli

RSA RSA · Open Women · 1 result

Melissa Watkins

1:36:38 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2026
176th of 426 place in that race · 426 Open Women finishers
RSA RSA · Open Women · 2 results

Anneli Retief

1:36:54 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2026
178th of 426 place in that race · 426 Open Women finishers

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

Melissa: Cape Town 2026, Open Women · Anneli: Cape Town 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Melissa and Anneli sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melissa: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 32%).Anneli: strongest on Carry (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 52%).

See the numbers
Part Melissa: faster than Anneli: faster than
Ski 60% 71%
Push 35% 81%
Pull 32% 68%
BBJ 54% 64%
Row 66% 60%
Carry 36% 86%
Lunges 50% 63%
Wall balls 66% 52%
Roxzone 65% 54%
Runs 62% 52%

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

Part by part

Part Melissa Anneli
SkiErg 60% 71%
Sled push 35% 81%
Sled pull 32% 68%
Burpee broad jump 54% 64%
Row 66% 60%
Farmers carry 36% 86%
Sandbag lunges 50% 63%
Wall balls 66% 52%
Roxzone (moving) 65% 54%
Runs (8 km) 62% 52%

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

Melissa · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women1:36:38
4:115:116:092:576:176:446:227:066:305:226:212:366:215:366:296:286:04
Anneli · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women1:36:54
4:505:036:422:156:415:156:426:316:385:276:391:586:395:066:387:146:44
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.Melissa · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women: 48:40 running, 42:00 at the stations and 6:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:06).Below, Anneli · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women: 51:28 running, 38:49 at the stations and 6:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:14).

See the numbers
Part Melissa · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women Anneli · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:11 4:50
SkiErg 5:11 5:03
Run 2 6:09 6:42
Sled push 2:57 2:15
Run 3 6:17 6:41
Sled pull 6:44 5:15
Run 4 6:22 6:42
Burpee broad jump 7:06 6:31
Run 5 6:30 6:38
Row 5:22 5:27
Run 6 6:21 6:39
Farmers carry 2:36 1:58
Run 7 6:21 6:39
Sandbag lunges 5:36 5:06
Run 8 6:29 6:38
Wall balls 6:28 7:14
Roxzone 6:04 6:44
Finish 1:36:38 1:36:54

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Melissa Anneli Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Women · 15 Aug 2026 1:36:38 1:36:54 0:16 · Melissa faster
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