Rick vs Gota

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Rick Volker

1:26:01 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
201st of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
JPN JPN · Open Men · 2 results

Gota Sato

1:26:01 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
202nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Rick: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Gota: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Rick and Gota sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Rick: strongest on Push (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 53%).Gota: strongest on Runs (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 16%).

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Part Rick: faster than Gota: faster than
Ski 77% 31%
Push 95% 16%
Pull 70% 43%
BBJ 67% 80%
Row 85% 54%
Carry 81% 23%
Lunges 59% 64%
Wall balls 74% 55%
Roxzone 64% 37%
Runs 53% 82%

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

Part by part

Part Rick Gota
SkiErg 77% 31%
Sled push 95% 16%
Sled pull 70% 43%
Burpee broad jump 67% 80%
Row 85% 54%
Farmers carry 81% 23%
Sandbag lunges 59% 64%
Wall balls 74% 55%
Roxzone (moving) 64% 37%
Runs (8 km) 53% 82%

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

Rick · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:26:01
4:334:185:542:035:594:206:065:175:524:335:491:565:495:346:086:135:44
Gota · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:26:01
3:464:444:533:444:585:065:014:355:104:555:072:575:095:235:457:207:35
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.Rick · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 46:10 running, 34:14 at the stations and 5:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:13).Below, Gota · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 39:50 running, 38:43 at the stations and 7:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:20).

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Part Rick · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Gota · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:33 3:46
SkiErg 4:18 4:44
Run 2 5:54 4:53
Sled push 2:03 3:44
Run 3 5:59 4:58
Sled pull 4:20 5:06
Run 4 6:06 5:01
Burpee broad jump 5:17 4:35
Run 5 5:52 5:10
Row 4:33 4:55
Run 6 5:49 5:07
Farmers carry 1:56 2:57
Run 7 5:49 5:09
Sandbag lunges 5:34 5:23
Run 8 6:08 5:45
Wall balls 6:13 7:20
Roxzone 5:44 7:35
Finish 1:26:01 1:26:01

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Rick Gota Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:26:01 1:26:01 level
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