Ivo vs Merlin

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Ivo Pietschmann

2:15:25 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
1865th of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 5 results

Merlin Moelter

1:44:21 best Open Men time · Cologne 2026
1196th of 1,452 place in that race · 1,452 Open Men finishers

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

Ivo: Hamburg 2025, Open Men · Merlin: Cologne 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ivo and Merlin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ivo: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 18% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 0%).Merlin: strongest on Runs (faster than 47% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 7%).

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Part Ivo: faster than Merlin: faster than
Ski 6% 18%
Push 13% 16%
Pull 2% 14%
BBJ 13% 12%
Row 0% 19%
Carry 2% 7%
Lunges 10% 8%
Wall balls 18% 7%
Roxzone 1% 20%
Runs 1% 47%

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

Part by part

Part Ivo Merlin
SkiErg 6% 18%
Sled push 13% 16%
Sled pull 2% 14%
Burpee broad jump 13% 12%
Row 0% 19%
Farmers carry 2% 7%
Sandbag lunges 10% 8%
Wall balls 18% 7%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 20%
Runs (8 km) 1% 47%

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

Ivo · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men2:15:25
8:095:018:013:588:387:578:527:559:156:346:583:488:287:579:2710:1014:24
Merlin · Cologne 2026 · Open Men1:44:21
3:354:495:204:016:205:496:028:176:095:205:202:495:458:065:0613:288:12
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.Ivo · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 1:07:49 running, 53:21 at the stations and 14:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:10).Below, Merlin · Cologne 2026 · Open Men: 43:36 running, 52:40 at the stations and 8:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:28).

See the numbers
Part Ivo · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men Merlin · Cologne 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 8:09 3:35
SkiErg 5:01 4:49
Run 2 8:01 5:20
Sled push 3:58 4:01
Run 3 8:38 6:20
Sled pull 7:57 5:49
Run 4 8:52 6:02
Burpee broad jump 7:55 8:17
Run 5 9:15 6:09
Row 6:34 5:20
Run 6 6:58 5:20
Farmers carry 3:48 2:49
Run 7 8:28 5:45
Sandbag lunges 7:57 8:06
Run 8 9:27 5:06
Wall balls 10:10 13:28
Roxzone 14:24 8:12
Finish 2:15:25 1:44:21

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ivo Merlin Gap
Hamburg 2025 Open Men · 3 Oct 2025 2:15:25 2:14:37 0:48 · Merlin faster
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