Paul vs George

IRL IRL · Pro Men · 4 results

Paul Metcalfe

1:30:41 best Open Men time · Dublin 2024
1201st of 1,766 place in that race · 1,766 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

George Barker

1:08:29 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
453rd of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Pro Men · George: Birmingham Birm, Open Men

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

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

This chart shows where Paul and George sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Ski (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 8%).George: strongest on Pull (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 65%).

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Part Paul: faster than George: faster than
Ski 44% 79%
Push 25% 65%
Pull 29% 94%
BBJ 25% 78%
Row 8% 70%
Carry 26% 79%
Lunges 24% 80%
Wall balls 20% 69%
Roxzone 18% 89%
Runs 16% 92%

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

Part by part

Part Paul George
SkiErg 44% 79%
Sled push 25% 65%
Sled pull 29% 94%
Burpee broad jump 25% 78%
Row 8% 70%
Farmers carry 26% 79%
Sandbag lunges 24% 80%
Wall balls 20% 69%
Roxzone (moving) 18% 89%
Runs (8 km) 16% 92%

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

Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Pro Men1:28:21
3:024:343:263:443:546:193:565:164:335:083:582:234:145:477:258:5012:01
George · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:08:29
4:134:203:463:064:013:224:014:214:034:374:041:473:584:113:536:024:53
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.Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Pro Men: 34:28 running, 42:01 at the stations and 12:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:50).Below, George · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 32:00 running, 31:46 at the stations and 4:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:02).

See the numbers
Part Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Pro Men George · Birmingham Birm · Open Men
Run 1 3:02 4:13
SkiErg 4:34 4:20
Run 2 3:26 3:46
Sled push 3:44 3:06
Run 3 3:54 4:01
Sled pull 6:19 3:22
Run 4 3:56 4:01
Burpee broad jump 5:16 4:21
Run 5 4:33 4:03
Row 5:08 4:37
Run 6 3:58 4:04
Farmers carry 2:23 1:47
Run 7 4:14 3:58
Sandbag lunges 5:47 4:11
Run 8 7:25 3:53
Wall balls 8:50 6:02
Roxzone 12:01 4:53
Finish 1:28:21 1:08:29

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul George Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Pro Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:28:21 1:28:21 level
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