James vs Chris

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

James Hicks

1:18:39 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
732nd of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Chris Copping

1:21:36 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
1019th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers

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

James: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Chris: Sydney 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Lunges (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 37%).Chris: strongest on Push (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 10%).

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Part James: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 74% 70%
Push 37% 82%
Pull 62% 10%
BBJ 54% 38%
Row 64% 54%
Carry 45% 13%
Lunges 86% 60%
Wall balls 71% 42%
Roxzone 64% 63%
Runs 73% 60%

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

Part by part

Part James Chris
SkiErg 74% 70%
Sled push 37% 82%
Sled pull 62% 10%
Burpee broad jump 54% 38%
Row 64% 54%
Farmers carry 45% 13%
Sandbag lunges 86% 60%
Wall balls 71% 42%
Roxzone (moving) 64% 63%
Runs (8 km) 73% 60%

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

James · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:18:39
2:454:114:442:285:014:295:065:185:124:425:022:114:584:135:395:197:30
Chris · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:21:36
3:314:123:551:574:336:134:295:514:394:384:402:524:354:576:096:427:50
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.James · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 38:27 running, 32:51 at the stations and 7:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:19).Below, Chris · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 36:31 running, 37:22 at the stations and 7:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:42) and the shortest the sled push (1:57).

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Part James · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Chris · Sydney 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:45 3:31
SkiErg 4:11 4:12
Run 2 4:44 3:55
Sled push 2:28 1:57
Run 3 5:01 4:33
Sled pull 4:29 6:13
Run 4 5:06 4:29
Burpee broad jump 5:18 5:51
Run 5 5:12 4:39
Row 4:42 4:38
Run 6 5:02 4:40
Farmers carry 2:11 2:52
Run 7 4:58 4:35
Sandbag lunges 4:13 4:57
Run 8 5:39 6:09
Wall balls 5:19 6:42
Roxzone 7:30 7:50
Finish 1:18:39 1:21:36

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Chris Gap
Sydney 2025 Open Men · 4 Jul 2025 1:21:39 1:21:36 0:03 · Chris faster
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