Sam vs Paul

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 · 9 results

Paul Sheppard

1:27:27 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
1855th of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: London 2025, Open Men · Paul: Berlin 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Paul 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%).Paul: strongest on Ski (faster than 51% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 17%).

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Part Sam: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 53% 51%
Push 43% 24%
Pull 61% 22%
BBJ 68% 22%
Row 69% 17%
Carry 93% 25%
Lunges 61% 29%
Wall balls 87% 32%
Roxzone 74% 24%
Runs 70% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Paul
SkiErg 53% 51%
Sled push 43% 24%
Sled pull 61% 22%
Burpee broad jump 68% 22%
Row 69% 17%
Farmers carry 93% 25%
Sandbag lunges 61% 29%
Wall balls 87% 32%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 24%
Runs (8 km) 70% 34%

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
Paul · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:27:27
3:374:224:193:134:345:044:426:354:545:024:452:265:035:446:357:009:40
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, Paul · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 38:29 running, 39:26 at the stations and 9:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:00).

See the numbers
Part Sam · London 2025 · Open Men Paul · Berlin 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:26 3:37
SkiErg 4:21 4:22
Run 2 4:16 4:19
Sled push 2:55 3:13
Run 3 4:30 4:34
Sled pull 4:05 5:04
Run 4 4:25 4:42
Burpee broad jump 4:33 6:35
Run 5 4:38 4:54
Row 4:32 5:02
Run 6 4:28 4:45
Farmers carry 1:35 2:26
Run 7 4:25 5:03
Sandbag lunges 4:47 5:44
Run 8 5:58 6:35
Wall balls 5:14 7:00
Roxzone 4:39 9:40
Finish 1:13:40 1:27:27

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Paul Gap
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:27:58 1:27:56 0:02 · Paul faster
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