Sam vs Mervin

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Sam Parsons

1:13:40 best Open Men time · London 2025
468th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Mervin Devar

1:27:42 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3474th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: London 2025, Open Men · Mervin: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Mervin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Carry (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 43%).Mervin: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 10%).

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Part Sam: faster than Mervin: faster than
Ski 53% 10%
Push 43% 19%
Pull 61% 29%
BBJ 68% 22%
Row 69% 18%
Carry 93% 65%
Lunges 61% 51%
Wall balls 87% 36%
Roxzone 74% 47%
Runs 70% 46%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Mervin
SkiErg 53% 10%
Sled push 43% 19%
Sled pull 61% 29%
Burpee broad jump 68% 22%
Row 69% 18%
Farmers carry 93% 65%
Sandbag lunges 61% 51%
Wall balls 87% 36%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 47%
Runs (8 km) 70% 46%

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

Sam · London 2025 · Open Men1:13:40
4:264:214:162:554:304:054:254:334:384:324:281:354:254:475:585:144:39
Mervin · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:27:42
3:295:204:003:223:465:263:557:064:015:214:221:544:175:096:068:1811:56
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.Sam · London 2025 · Open Men: 37:07 running, 32:01 at the stations and 4:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:14).Below, Mervin · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 33:56 running, 41:56 at the stations and 11:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:18).

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Part Sam · London 2025 · Open Men Mervin · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:26 3:29
SkiErg 4:21 5:20
Run 2 4:16 4:00
Sled push 2:55 3:22
Run 3 4:30 3:46
Sled pull 4:05 5:26
Run 4 4:25 3:55
Burpee broad jump 4:33 7:06
Run 5 4:38 4:01
Row 4:32 5:21
Run 6 4:28 4:22
Farmers carry 1:35 1:54
Run 7 4:25 4:17
Sandbag lunges 4:47 5:09
Run 8 5:58 6:06
Wall balls 5:14 8:18
Roxzone 4:39 11:56
Finish 1:13:40 1:27:42

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Sam Mervin Gap
Cardiff 2026 Doubles Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:03:38 1:21:04 17:26 · Sam faster
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:27:58 1:28:01 0:03 · Sam faster
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