Volker vs Roman

GER GER · Open Men · 6 results

Volker Nitzsche

1:07:09 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2025
50th of 1,171 place in that race · 1,171 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 34 results

Roman Hopp

1:00:50 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2024
6th of 1,248 place in that race · 1,248 Open Men finishers

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

Volker: Stuttgart 2025, Open Men · Roman: Hamburg 2024, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
VolkerRomanedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Volker and Roman sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Volker: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 67%).Roman: strongest on Lunges (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 86%).

See the numbers
Part Volker: faster than Roman: faster than
Ski 90% 93%
Push 81% 86%
Pull 76% 99%
BBJ 84% 99%
Row 93% 95%
Carry 67% 94%
Lunges 95% 99%
Wall balls 84% 94%
Roxzone 98% 99%
Runs 96% 99%

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

Part by part

Part Volker Roman
SkiErg 90% 93%
Sled push 81% 86%
Sled pull 76% 99%
Burpee broad jump 84% 99%
Row 93% 95%
Farmers carry 67% 94%
Sandbag lunges 95% 99%
Wall balls 84% 94%
Roxzone (moving) 98% 99%
Runs (8 km) 96% 99%

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

Volker · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men1:07:09
4:074:103:322:243:414:073:404:143:474:213:441:553:473:364:025:336:37
Roman · Hamburg 2024 · Open Men1:00:50
3:294:023:391:553:552:433:513:084:014:163:541:313:482:564:174:285:07
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.Volker · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men: 30:19 running, 30:20 at the stations and 6:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:33).Below, Roman · Hamburg 2024 · Open Men: 30:54 running, 24:59 at the stations and 5:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:28).

See the numbers
Part Volker · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men Roman · Hamburg 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:07 3:29
SkiErg 4:10 4:02
Run 2 3:32 3:39
Sled push 2:24 1:55
Run 3 3:41 3:55
Sled pull 4:07 2:43
Run 4 3:40 3:51
Burpee broad jump 4:14 3:08
Run 5 3:47 4:01
Row 4:21 4:16
Run 6 3:44 3:54
Farmers carry 1:55 1:31
Run 7 3:47 3:48
Sandbag lunges 3:36 2:56
Run 8 4:02 4:17
Wall balls 5:33 4:28
Roxzone 6:37 5:07
Finish 1:07:09 1:00:50

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Volker Roman Gap
St. Gallen 2026 Pro Doubles Men · 16 Jan 2026 1:00:50 1:01:15 0:25 · Volker faster
Stuttgart 2025 Open Men · 1 Nov 2025 1:07:09 1:07:08 0:01 · Roman faster
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