Jens vs Niels

NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Jens Ruesink

1:19:05 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
639th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Niels Mahler

1:19:06 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
640th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers

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

Jens: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men · Niels: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Jens and Niels sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jens: strongest on Push (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 31%).Niels: strongest on Carry (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 23%).

See the numbers
Part Jens: faster than Niels: faster than
Ski 52% 52%
Push 88% 58%
Pull 31% 23%
BBJ 60% 41%
Row 60% 69%
Carry 86% 89%
Lunges 39% 47%
Wall balls 49% 50%
Roxzone 70% 65%
Runs 66% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Jens Niels
SkiErg 52% 52%
Sled push 88% 58%
Sled pull 31% 23%
Burpee broad jump 60% 41%
Row 60% 69%
Farmers carry 86% 89%
Sandbag lunges 39% 47%
Wall balls 49% 50%
Roxzone (moving) 70% 65%
Runs (8 km) 66% 72%

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

Jens · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:19:05
4:184:264:272:134:544:364:395:104:474:404:371:414:485:115:066:476:53
Niels · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:19:06
3:534:264:082:394:394:514:345:584:444:364:281:384:504:565:056:447:04
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.Jens · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 37:36 running, 34:44 at the stations and 6:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:47).Below, Niels · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 36:20 running, 35:47 at the stations and 7:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:44).

See the numbers
Part Jens · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men Niels · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:18 3:53
SkiErg 4:26 4:26
Run 2 4:27 4:08
Sled push 2:13 2:39
Run 3 4:54 4:39
Sled pull 4:36 4:51
Run 4 4:39 4:34
Burpee broad jump 5:10 5:58
Run 5 4:47 4:44
Row 4:40 4:36
Run 6 4:37 4:28
Farmers carry 1:41 1:38
Run 7 4:48 4:50
Sandbag lunges 5:11 4:56
Run 8 5:06 5:05
Wall balls 6:47 6:44
Roxzone 6:53 7:04
Finish 1:19:05 1:19:06

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Jens Niels Gap
Heerenveen 2026 Open Men · 17 May 2026 1:19:05 1:19:06 0:01 · Jens faster
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