John vs Saul

GBR GBR · Pro Men · 2 results

John Hickles

1:26:38 best Pro Men time · Anaheim 2025
156th of 265 place in that race · 265 Pro Men finishers
MEX MEX · Pro Men · 8 results

Saul Puerta

1:27:15 best Pro Men time · Anaheim 2025
158th of 265 place in that race · 265 Pro Men finishers

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

John: Houston 2025, Open Men · Saul: Mexico City 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where John and Saul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.John: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 20%).Saul: strongest on Pull (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 71%).

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Part John: faster than Saul: faster than
Ski 90% 71%
Push 20% 82%
Pull 85% 95%
BBJ 61% 84%
Row 66% 87%
Carry 75% 73%
Lunges 78% 72%
Wall balls 57% 72%
Roxzone 92% 95%
Runs 74% 90%

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

Part by part

Part John Saul
SkiErg 90% 71%
Sled push 20% 82%
Sled pull 85% 95%
Burpee broad jump 61% 84%
Row 66% 87%
Farmers carry 75% 73%
Sandbag lunges 78% 72%
Wall balls 57% 72%
Roxzone (moving) 92% 95%
Runs (8 km) 74% 90%

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

John · Houston 2025 · Open Men1:18:54
3:594:103:583:294:304:124:315:388:024:444:461:554:424:264:576:025:02
Saul · Mexico City 2024 · Open Men1:18:17
5:514:394:311:594:473:434:524:524:544:524:432:254:455:045:146:244:49
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.John · Houston 2025 · Open Men: 39:25 running, 34:35 at the stations and 5:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:02).Below, Saul · Mexico City 2024 · Open Men: 39:37 running, 33:59 at the stations and 4:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:24) and the shortest the sled push (1:59).

See the numbers
Part John · Houston 2025 · Open Men Saul · Mexico City 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 3:59 5:51
SkiErg 4:10 4:39
Run 2 3:58 4:31
Sled push 3:29 1:59
Run 3 4:30 4:47
Sled pull 4:12 3:43
Run 4 4:31 4:52
Burpee broad jump 5:38 4:52
Run 5 8:02 4:54
Row 4:44 4:52
Run 6 4:46 4:43
Farmers carry 1:55 2:25
Run 7 4:42 4:45
Sandbag lunges 4:26 5:04
Run 8 4:57 5:14
Wall balls 6:02 6:24
Roxzone 5:02 4:49
Finish 1:18:54 1:18:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race John Saul Gap
Anaheim 2025 Pro Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:26:38 1:27:15 0:37 · John faster
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