Zach vs David

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Zach Smargon

2:16:18 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
1822nd of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 9 results

David Arthur Brown

2:02:42 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
72nd of 88 place in that race · 88 Open Men finishers

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

Zach: Boston 2026, Open Men · David: Stockholm 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Zach and David sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Zach: strongest on Push (faster than 14% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 2%).David: strongest on Carry (faster than 26% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).

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Part Zach: faster than David: faster than
Ski 6% 1%
Push 14% 3%
Pull 4% 3%
BBJ 3% 7%
Row 3% 7%
Carry 2% 26%
Lunges 3% 8%
Wall balls 5% 8%
Roxzone 12% 16%
Runs 8% 10%

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

Part by part

Part Zach David
SkiErg 6% 1%
Sled push 14% 3%
Sled pull 4% 3%
Burpee broad jump 3% 7%
Row 3% 7%
Farmers carry 2% 26%
Sandbag lunges 3% 8%
Wall balls 5% 8%
Roxzone (moving) 12% 16%
Runs (8 km) 8% 10%

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

Zach · Boston 2026 · Open Men2:16:18
4:515:195:595:136:278:216:4611:597:566:077:363:567:5510:4111:4814:3810:55
David · Stockholm 2026 · Open Men2:11:05
4:175:556:406:197:108:457:249:367:196:176:592:367:479:298:2615:4710:29
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.Zach · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 59:18 running, 1:06:14 at the stations and 10:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:38).Below, David · Stockholm 2026 · Open Men: 56:02 running, 1:04:44 at the stations and 10:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:47).

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Part Zach · Boston 2026 · Open Men David · Stockholm 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:51 4:17
SkiErg 5:19 5:55
Run 2 5:59 6:40
Sled push 5:13 6:19
Run 3 6:27 7:10
Sled pull 8:21 8:45
Run 4 6:46 7:24
Burpee broad jump 11:59 9:36
Run 5 7:56 7:19
Row 6:07 6:17
Run 6 7:36 6:59
Farmers carry 3:56 2:36
Run 7 7:55 7:47
Sandbag lunges 10:41 9:29
Run 8 11:48 8:26
Wall balls 14:38 15:47
Roxzone 10:55 10:29
Finish 2:16:18 2:11:05

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Zach David Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 2:16:18 2:16:24 0:06 · Zach faster
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