Crystal vs Ashley

RSA RSA · Open Women · 5 results

Crystal Espin

1:41:23 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2025
211th of 431 place in that race · 431 Open Women finishers
RSA RSA · Open Women · 2 results

Ashley Smithers

1:32:38 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2026
139th of 426 place in that race · 426 Open Women finishers

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

Crystal: Cape Town 2025, Open Women · Ashley: Cape Town 2026, Open Women

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
CrystalAshleyedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Crystal and Ashley sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Crystal: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 21%).Ashley: strongest on Row (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 15%).

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Part Crystal: faster than Ashley: faster than
Ski 47% 60%
Push 36% 77%
Pull 55% 72%
BBJ 65% 56%
Row 57% 87%
Carry 41% 15%
Lunges 21% 73%
Wall balls 70% 50%
Roxzone 59% 57%
Runs 44% 73%

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

Part by part

Part Crystal Ashley
SkiErg 47% 60%
Sled push 36% 77%
Sled pull 55% 72%
Burpee broad jump 65% 56%
Row 57% 87%
Farmers carry 41% 15%
Sandbag lunges 21% 73%
Wall balls 70% 50%
Roxzone (moving) 59% 57%
Runs (8 km) 44% 73%

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

Crystal · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women1:41:23
4:115:206:123:117:146:167:056:186:395:367:112:226:496:547:036:166:55
Ashley · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women1:32:38
3:555:115:342:216:115:076:076:585:595:046:023:106:054:466:177:296:31
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.Crystal · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women: 52:23 running, 42:13 at the stations and 6:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:54).Below, Ashley · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women: 46:10 running, 40:07 at the stations and 6:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:29) and the shortest the sled push (2:21).

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Part Crystal · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women Ashley · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:11 3:55
SkiErg 5:20 5:11
Run 2 6:12 5:34
Sled push 3:11 2:21
Run 3 7:14 6:11
Sled pull 6:16 5:07
Run 4 7:05 6:07
Burpee broad jump 6:18 6:58
Run 5 6:39 5:59
Row 5:36 5:04
Run 6 7:11 6:02
Farmers carry 2:22 3:10
Run 7 6:49 6:05
Sandbag lunges 6:54 4:46
Run 8 7:03 6:17
Wall balls 6:16 7:29
Roxzone 6:55 6:31
Finish 1:41:23 1:32:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Crystal Ashley Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Women · 4 Apr 2026 1:44:45 1:45:07 0:22 · Crystal faster
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