Stefan vs Knittel

GER GER · Pro Men · 5 results

Stefan Rühl

1:45:42 best Pro Men time · Cologne 2025
229th of 252 place in that race · 252 Pro Men finishers
GER GER · Pro Men · 2 results

Stefan Knittel

1:38:56 best Pro Men time · Hamburg 2025
300th of 327 place in that race · 327 Pro Men finishers

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

Stefan: Karlsruhe 2025, Open Men · Knittel: Hamburg 2025, Pro Men

Not the same division. Stefan's race here is Open Men and Knittel's is Pro Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

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

This chart shows where Stefan and Knittel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stefan: strongest on Lunges (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 2%).Knittel: strongest on Carry (faster than 51% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 4%).

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Part Stefan: faster than Knittel: faster than
Ski 2% 29%
Push 37% 44%
Pull 27% 43%
BBJ 5% 15%
Row 13% 6%
Carry 10% 51%
Lunges 54% 10%
Wall balls 30% 16%
Roxzone 19% 12%
Runs 28% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Stefan Knittel
SkiErg 2% 29%
Sled push 37% 44%
Sled pull 27% 43%
Burpee broad jump 5% 15%
Row 13% 6%
Farmers carry 10% 51%
Sandbag lunges 54% 10%
Wall balls 30% 16%
Roxzone (moving) 19% 12%
Runs (8 km) 28% 4%

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

Stefan · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men1:41:34
3:575:125:382:596:155:546:389:436:585:166:142:406:164:547:297:288:13
Knittel · Hamburg 2025 · Pro Men1:38:56
5:524:194:423:495:015:315:115:425:485:0910:082:005:326:516:218:478:22
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.Stefan · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men: 49:25 running, 44:07 at the stations and 8:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:43).Below, Knittel · Hamburg 2025 · Pro Men: 48:35 running, 42:08 at the stations and 8:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:47).

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Part Stefan · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men Knittel · Hamburg 2025 · Pro Men
Run 1 3:57 5:52
SkiErg 5:12 4:19
Run 2 5:38 4:42
Sled push 2:59 3:49
Run 3 6:15 5:01
Sled pull 5:54 5:31
Run 4 6:38 5:11
Burpee broad jump 9:43 5:42
Run 5 6:58 5:48
Row 5:16 5:09
Run 6 6:14 10:08
Farmers carry 2:40 2:00
Run 7 6:16 5:32
Sandbag lunges 4:54 6:51
Run 8 7:29 6:21
Wall balls 7:28 8:47
Roxzone 8:13 8:22
Finish 1:41:34 1:38:56

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stefan Knittel Gap
Cologne 2025 Pro Men · 10 Apr 2025 1:45:42 1:44:54 0:48 · Knittel faster
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