Michael vs Karabo

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Djan

1:58:56 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
551st of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Karabo Phalagae Tlabakoe Ntjie

1:58:41 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
550th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Karabo: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Karabo sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Pull (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 5%).Karabo: strongest on BBJ (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).

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Part Michael: faster than Karabo: faster than
Ski 29% 3%
Push 11% 19%
Pull 67% 16%
BBJ 10% 69%
Row 5% 4%
Carry 24% 27%
Lunges 17% 31%
Wall balls 30% 1%
Roxzone 13% 40%
Runs 13% 37%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Karabo
SkiErg 29% 3%
Sled push 11% 19%
Sled pull 67% 16%
Burpee broad jump 10% 69%
Row 5% 4%
Farmers carry 24% 27%
Sandbag lunges 17% 31%
Wall balls 30% 1%
Roxzone (moving) 13% 40%
Runs (8 km) 13% 37%

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

Michael · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:58:56
4:274:456:554:047:024:277:299:348:296:037:482:557:558:059:339:1810:13
Karabo · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:58:41
4:145:305:583:356:436:276:455:087:066:136:452:485:077:017:0925:027:18
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.Michael · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 59:38 running, 49:11 at the stations and 10:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:34).Below, Karabo · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 49:47 running, 1:01:44 at the stations and 7:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (25:02).

See the numbers
Part Michael · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Karabo · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:27 4:14
SkiErg 4:45 5:30
Run 2 6:55 5:58
Sled push 4:04 3:35
Run 3 7:02 6:43
Sled pull 4:27 6:27
Run 4 7:29 6:45
Burpee broad jump 9:34 5:08
Run 5 8:29 7:06
Row 6:03 6:13
Run 6 7:48 6:45
Farmers carry 2:55 2:48
Run 7 7:55 5:07
Sandbag lunges 8:05 7:01
Run 8 9:33 7:09
Wall balls 9:18 25:02
Roxzone 10:13 7:18
Finish 1:58:56 1:58:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Karabo Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:58:56 1:58:41 0:15 · Karabo faster
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