Herbert vs Matisse

NED NED · Open Men · 5 results

Herbert Bruinenberg

1:26:53 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
843rd of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers
BEL BEL · Open Men · 2 results

Matisse Kestemont

1:18:02 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2026
872nd of 2,802 place in that race · 2,802 Open Men finishers

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

Herbert: Ghent 2025, Open Men · Matisse: Amsterdam 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Herbert and Matisse sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Herbert: strongest on Push (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 16%).Matisse: strongest on Runs (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 9%).

See the numbers
Part Herbert: faster than Matisse: faster than
Ski 65% 71%
Push 70% 9%
Pull 37% 19%
BBJ 19% 31%
Row 41% 69%
Carry 29% 69%
Lunges 58% 56%
Wall balls 16% 69%
Roxzone 31% 74%
Runs 63% 84%

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

Part by part

Part Herbert Matisse
SkiErg 65% 71%
Sled push 70% 9%
Sled pull 37% 19%
Burpee broad jump 19% 31%
Row 41% 69%
Farmers carry 29% 69%
Sandbag lunges 58% 56%
Wall balls 16% 69%
Roxzone (moving) 31% 74%
Runs (8 km) 63% 84%

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

Herbert · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:26:53
5:054:244:432:484:425:224:417:014:424:514:432:164:404:414:529:527:39
Matisse · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men1:18:02
3:134:184:033:534:145:444:316:114:424:354:451:504:304:575:016:005:47
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.Herbert · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 38:08 running, 41:16 at the stations and 7:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:52).Below, Matisse · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men: 34:59 running, 37:27 at the stations and 5:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:11).

See the numbers
Part Herbert · Ghent 2025 · Open Men Matisse · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:05 3:13
SkiErg 4:24 4:18
Run 2 4:43 4:03
Sled push 2:48 3:53
Run 3 4:42 4:14
Sled pull 5:22 5:44
Run 4 4:41 4:31
Burpee broad jump 7:01 6:11
Run 5 4:42 4:42
Row 4:51 4:35
Run 6 4:43 4:45
Farmers carry 2:16 1:50
Run 7 4:40 4:30
Sandbag lunges 4:41 4:57
Run 8 4:52 5:01
Wall balls 9:52 6:00
Roxzone 7:39 5:47
Finish 1:26:53 1:18:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Herbert Matisse Gap
Ghent 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:26:53 1:26:52 0:01 · Matisse faster
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