Chris vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Chris Hodgson

1:42:07 best Open Men time · London 2025
1675th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 3 results

Paul Shields

1:40:11 best Open Men time · Dublin 2025
2003rd of 2,325 place in that race · 2,325 Open Men finishers

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

Chris: London 2025, Open Men · Paul: Dublin 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Chris and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Chris: strongest on Carry (faster than 30% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 5%).Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Chris: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 10% 1%
Push 29% 74%
Pull 18% 43%
BBJ 22% 16%
Row 12% 7%
Carry 30% 14%
Lunges 16% 16%
Wall balls 5% 12%
Roxzone 13% 21%
Runs 17% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Chris Paul
SkiErg 10% 1%
Sled push 29% 74%
Sled pull 18% 43%
Burpee broad jump 22% 16%
Row 12% 7%
Farmers carry 30% 14%
Sandbag lunges 16% 16%
Wall balls 5% 12%
Roxzone (moving) 13% 21%
Runs (8 km) 17% 16%

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

Chris · London 2025 · Open Men1:42:07
5:264:515:193:085:435:215:506:435:585:125:432:275:356:547:3213:007:30
Paul · Dublin 2025 · Open Men1:40:11
3:565:316:032:186:124:466:257:286:555:326:342:456:426:414:5411:316:05
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.Chris · London 2025 · Open Men: 47:06 running, 47:36 at the stations and 7:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:00).Below, Paul · Dublin 2025 · Open Men: 47:41 running, 46:32 at the stations and 6:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:31) and the shortest the sled push (2:18).

See the numbers
Part Chris · London 2025 · Open Men Paul · Dublin 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:26 3:56
SkiErg 4:51 5:31
Run 2 5:19 6:03
Sled push 3:08 2:18
Run 3 5:43 6:12
Sled pull 5:21 4:46
Run 4 5:50 6:25
Burpee broad jump 6:43 7:28
Run 5 5:58 6:55
Row 5:12 5:32
Run 6 5:43 6:34
Farmers carry 2:27 2:45
Run 7 5:35 6:42
Sandbag lunges 6:54 6:41
Run 8 7:32 4:54
Wall balls 13:00 11:31
Roxzone 7:30 6:05
Finish 1:42:07 1:40:11

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Chris Paul Gap
Cardiff 2025 Open Men · 30 May 2025 1:54:27 1:54:33 0:06 · Chris faster
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