Kai vs Manfred

GER GER · Open Men · 4 results

Kai Ermel

1:55:37 best Open Men time · Karlsruhe 2026
1544th of 1,725 place in that race · 1,725 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

Manfred Düsing

1:51:22 best Open Men time · Frankfurt 2024
1377th of 1,480 place in that race · 1,480 Open Men finishers

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

Kai: Karlsruhe 2026, Open Men · Manfred: Frankfurt 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kai and Manfred sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kai: strongest on Ski (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 3%).Manfred: strongest on Carry (faster than 61% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 2%).

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Part Kai: faster than Manfred: faster than
Ski 67% 24%
Push 51% 10%
Pull 34% 3%
BBJ 9% 2%
Row 26% 28%
Carry 17% 61%
Lunges 4% 8%
Wall balls 8% 14%
Roxzone 3% 22%
Runs 20% 9%

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

Part by part

Part Kai Manfred
SkiErg 67% 24%
Sled push 51% 10%
Sled pull 34% 3%
Burpee broad jump 9% 2%
Row 26% 28%
Farmers carry 17% 61%
Sandbag lunges 4% 8%
Wall balls 8% 14%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 22%
Runs (8 km) 20% 9%

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

Kai · Karlsruhe 2026 · Open Men1:55:37
4:244:216:053:136:465:196:369:097:045:126:482:566:4510:017:0713:2710:33
Manfred · Frankfurt 2024 · Open Men1:51:22
4:354:555:373:395:477:555:4911:236:194:566:311:506:117:1910:489:258:30
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.Kai · Karlsruhe 2026 · Open Men: 51:35 running, 53:38 at the stations and 10:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:27).Below, Manfred · Frankfurt 2024 · Open Men: 51:37 running, 51:22 at the stations and 8:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (11:23).

See the numbers
Part Kai · Karlsruhe 2026 · Open Men Manfred · Frankfurt 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:24 4:35
SkiErg 4:21 4:55
Run 2 6:05 5:37
Sled push 3:13 3:39
Run 3 6:46 5:47
Sled pull 5:19 7:55
Run 4 6:36 5:49
Burpee broad jump 9:09 11:23
Run 5 7:04 6:19
Row 5:12 4:56
Run 6 6:48 6:31
Farmers carry 2:56 1:50
Run 7 6:45 6:11
Sandbag lunges 10:01 7:19
Run 8 7:07 10:48
Wall balls 13:27 9:25
Roxzone 10:33 8:30
Finish 1:55:37 1:51:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kai Manfred Gap
Karlsruhe 2026 Open Men · 1 Oct 2026 1:55:37 1:55:24 0:13 · Manfred faster
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