Ben vs Gareth

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Ben Dambok

1:35:32 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4310th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Gareth Shaw

1:36:57 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
1904th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Gareth: Manchester 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ben and Gareth sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ben: strongest on BBJ (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 11%).Gareth: strongest on Push (faster than 55% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 10%).

See the numbers
Part Ben: faster than Gareth: faster than
Ski 25% 11%
Push 37% 55%
Pull 16% 27%
BBJ 44% 10%
Row 32% 28%
Carry 17% 39%
Lunges 22% 30%
Wall balls 11% 26%
Roxzone 29% 34%
Runs 29% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Gareth
SkiErg 25% 11%
Sled push 37% 55%
Sled pull 16% 27%
Burpee broad jump 44% 10%
Row 32% 28%
Farmers carry 17% 39%
Sandbag lunges 22% 30%
Wall balls 11% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 29% 34%
Runs (8 km) 29% 26%

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

Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:35:32
3:485:054:113:004:196:044:305:454:295:084:272:374:276:276:2011:5213:12
Gareth · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:36:57
3:594:495:312:395:585:096:158:306:465:006:252:196:396:155:328:546:25
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.Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:31 running, 45:58 at the stations and 13:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:52).Below, Gareth · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 47:05 running, 43:35 at the stations and 6:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:54).

See the numbers
Part Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Gareth · Manchester 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:48 3:59
SkiErg 5:05 4:49
Run 2 4:11 5:31
Sled push 3:00 2:39
Run 3 4:19 5:58
Sled pull 6:04 5:09
Run 4 4:30 6:15
Burpee broad jump 5:45 8:30
Run 5 4:29 6:46
Row 5:08 5:00
Run 6 4:27 6:25
Farmers carry 2:37 2:19
Run 7 4:27 6:39
Sandbag lunges 6:27 6:15
Run 8 6:20 5:32
Wall balls 11:52 8:54
Roxzone 13:12 6:25
Finish 1:35:32 1:36:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ben Gareth Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:36:54 1:36:57 0:03 · Ben faster
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