Joshua vs Liam

RSA RSA · Pro Men · 4 results

Joshua Botha

1:20:37 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
90th of 178 place in that race · 178 Pro Men finishers
RSA RSA · Pro Men · 1 result

Liam O Connell

1:20:59 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
92nd of 178 place in that race · 178 Pro Men finishers

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

Joshua: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men · Liam: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men

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

This chart shows where Joshua and Liam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joshua: strongest on Row (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 30%).Liam: strongest on Ski (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 33%).

See the numbers
Part Joshua: faster than Liam: faster than
Ski 61% 97%
Push 44% 82%
Pull 60% 61%
BBJ 43% 52%
Row 98% 85%
Carry 30% 85%
Lunges 93% 36%
Wall balls 44% 60%
Roxzone 45% 47%
Runs 40% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Joshua Liam
SkiErg 61% 97%
Sled push 44% 82%
Sled pull 60% 61%
Burpee broad jump 43% 52%
Row 98% 85%
Farmers carry 30% 85%
Sandbag lunges 93% 36%
Wall balls 44% 60%
Roxzone (moving) 45% 47%
Runs (8 km) 40% 33%

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

Joshua · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:20:37
3:354:084:453:324:574:535:274:355:334:015:202:335:183:475:527:275:01
Liam · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:20:59
3:283:505:022:515:174:515:214:155:394:125:401:435:475:386:076:284:59
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.Joshua · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 40:47 running, 34:55 at the stations and 5:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:27).Below, Liam · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 42:21 running, 33:48 at the stations and 4:59 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:28).

See the numbers
Part Joshua · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men Liam · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men
Run 1 3:35 3:28
SkiErg 4:08 3:50
Run 2 4:45 5:02
Sled push 3:32 2:51
Run 3 4:57 5:17
Sled pull 4:53 4:51
Run 4 5:27 5:21
Burpee broad jump 4:35 4:15
Run 5 5:33 5:39
Row 4:01 4:12
Run 6 5:20 5:40
Farmers carry 2:33 1:43
Run 7 5:18 5:47
Sandbag lunges 3:47 5:38
Run 8 5:52 6:07
Wall balls 7:27 6:28
Roxzone 5:01 4:59
Finish 1:20:37 1:20:59

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joshua Liam Gap
Cape Town 2026 Pro Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:20:37 1:20:59 0:22 · Joshua faster
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