Kate vs Cathy

NZL NZL · Open Women · 2 results

Kate Merson

1:23:33 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
828th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers
IRL IRL · Open Women · 7 results

Cathy McCarthy

1:23:34 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
830th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers

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

Kate: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women · Cathy: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Kate and Cathy sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kate: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 32%).Cathy: strongest on Push (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 45%).

See the numbers
Part Kate: faster than Cathy: faster than
Ski 68% 57%
Push 32% 98%
Pull 65% 81%
BBJ 43% 56%
Row 41% 57%
Carry 56% 84%
Lunges 65% 66%
Wall balls 50% 45%
Roxzone 85% 74%
Runs 82% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Kate Cathy
SkiErg 68% 57%
Sled push 32% 98%
Sled pull 65% 81%
Burpee broad jump 43% 56%
Row 41% 57%
Farmers carry 56% 84%
Sandbag lunges 65% 66%
Wall balls 50% 45%
Roxzone (moving) 85% 74%
Runs (8 km) 82% 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

Kate · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:23:33
3:005:223:453:023:565:104:067:044:035:414:012:083:594:355:596:5011:01
Cathy · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:23:34
3:545:294:111:544:134:424:126:274:075:304:081:514:034:345:347:0911:45
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.Kate · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 32:49 running, 39:52 at the stations and 11:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:04).Below, Cathy · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 34:22 running, 37:36 at the stations and 11:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:09).

See the numbers
Part Kate · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women Cathy · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 3:00 3:54
SkiErg 5:22 5:29
Run 2 3:45 4:11
Sled push 3:02 1:54
Run 3 3:56 4:13
Sled pull 5:10 4:42
Run 4 4:06 4:12
Burpee broad jump 7:04 6:27
Run 5 4:03 4:07
Row 5:41 5:30
Run 6 4:01 4:08
Farmers carry 2:08 1:51
Run 7 3:59 4:03
Sandbag lunges 4:35 4:34
Run 8 5:59 5:34
Wall balls 6:50 7:09
Roxzone 11:01 11:45
Finish 1:23:33 1:23:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kate Cathy Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Women · 4 Dec 2025 1:23:33 1:23:34 0:01 · Kate faster
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