Melissa vs Tara
USA · Pro Women · 13 results Melissa Bauer
USA · Pro Women · 9 results Tara Craig
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Melissa: Washington DC 2026, Open Women · Tara: New York 2025, Pro Women
Not the same division. Melissa's race here is Open Women and Tara's is Pro Women, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.
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This chart shows where Melissa and Tara sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melissa: strongest on Lunges (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 38%).Tara: strongest on Push (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 18%).
See the numbers
| Part | Melissa: faster than | Tara: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 55% | 18% |
| Push | 56% | 66% |
| Pull | 54% | 39% |
| BBJ | 67% | 31% |
| Row | 66% | 20% |
| Carry | 43% | 60% |
| Lunges | 79% | 43% |
| Wall balls | 74% | 38% |
| Roxzone | 59% | no split |
| Runs | 38% | no split |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Melissa | Tara |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 55% | 18% |
| Sled push | 56% | 66% |
| Sled pull | 54% | 39% |
| Burpee broad jump | 67% | 31% |
| Row | 66% | 20% |
| Farmers carry | 43% | 60% |
| Sandbag lunges | 79% | 43% |
| Wall balls | 74% | 38% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 59% | — |
| Runs (8 km) | 38% | — |
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
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.Melissa · Washington DC 2026 · Open Women: 49:24 running, 35:46 at the stations and 7:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:28).Below, Tara · New York 2025 · Pro Women: 0:00 running and 39:49 at the stations; the longest station was the wall balls (6:59).
See the numbers
| Part | Melissa · Washington DC 2026 · Open Women | Tara · New York 2025 · Pro Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 7:40 | — |
| SkiErg | 5:11 | 5:11 |
| Run 2 | 5:47 | — |
| Sled push | 2:26 | 3:00 |
| Run 3 | 5:51 | — |
| Sled pull | 5:23 | 4:58 |
| Run 4 | 5:59 | — |
| Burpee broad jump | 5:28 | 5:53 |
| Run 5 | 6:14 | — |
| Row | 5:17 | 5:31 |
| Run 6 | 6:03 | — |
| Farmers carry | 2:22 | 2:27 |
| Run 7 | 6:10 | — |
| Sandbag lunges | 4:16 | 5:50 |
| Run 8 | 5:40 | — |
| Wall balls | 5:23 | 6:59 |
| Roxzone | 7:06 | — |
| Finish | 1:32:07 | 1:33:02 |
Head to head: 2 races they both ran
| Race | Melissa | Tara | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston 2026 Pro Women · 8 Oct 2026 | 1:50:21 | 1:50:47 | 0:26 · Melissa faster |
| New York 2026 Pro Women · 28 May 2026 | 1:57:58 | 1:51:19 | 6:39 · Tara faster |
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