Gary vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Gary Hamilton

1:14:15 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
823rd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 2 results

Paul O Connor

1:14:14 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
821st of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Gary: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Paul: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Gary and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gary: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 48%).Paul: strongest on Runs (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 34%).

See the numbers
Part Gary: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 64% 69%
Push 48% 45%
Pull 69% 55%
BBJ 86% 55%
Row 59% 62%
Carry 61% 75%
Lunges 60% 34%
Wall balls 92% 73%
Roxzone 71% 75%
Runs 76% 92%

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

Part by part

Part Gary Paul
SkiErg 64% 69%
Sled push 48% 45%
Sled pull 69% 55%
Burpee broad jump 86% 55%
Row 59% 62%
Farmers carry 61% 75%
Sandbag lunges 60% 34%
Wall balls 92% 73%
Roxzone (moving) 71% 75%
Runs (8 km) 76% 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

Gary · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:14:15
4:454:244:113:194:204:314:214:074:394:444:332:014:274:514:304:525:47
Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:14:14
4:354:223:493:233:594:533:585:243:584:423:521:514:015:484:095:585:40
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.Gary · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 35:46 running, 32:50 at the stations and 5:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:52).Below, Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 32:22 running, 36:21 at the stations and 5:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:58).

See the numbers
Part Gary · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:45 4:35
SkiErg 4:24 4:22
Run 2 4:11 3:49
Sled push 3:19 3:23
Run 3 4:20 3:59
Sled pull 4:31 4:53
Run 4 4:21 3:58
Burpee broad jump 4:07 5:24
Run 5 4:39 3:58
Row 4:44 4:42
Run 6 4:33 3:52
Farmers carry 2:01 1:51
Run 7 4:27 4:01
Sandbag lunges 4:51 5:48
Run 8 4:30 4:09
Wall balls 4:52 5:58
Roxzone 5:47 5:40
Finish 1:14:15 1:14:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gary Paul Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:14:15 1:14:14 0:01 · Paul faster
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