Joel vs Sam

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Joel Anderson

1:27:22 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
1439th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 6 results

Sam Heairfield

1:15:19 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
695th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Joel: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Sam: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Joel and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joel: strongest on Pull (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 14%).Sam: strongest on BBJ (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 37%).

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Part Joel: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 48% 44%
Push 89% 37%
Pull 97% 47%
BBJ 81% 88%
Row 47% 84%
Carry 56% 79%
Lunges 81% 72%
Wall balls 71% 65%
Roxzone 14% 87%
Runs 27% 71%

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

Part by part

Part Joel Sam
SkiErg 48% 44%
Sled push 89% 37%
Sled pull 97% 47%
Burpee broad jump 81% 88%
Row 47% 84%
Farmers carry 56% 79%
Sandbag lunges 81% 72%
Wall balls 71% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 87%
Runs (8 km) 27% 71%

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

Joel · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:27:22
3:024:225:161:445:483:096:014:156:214:516:112:056:194:247:155:2011:06
Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:15:19
2:344:304:252:544:334:554:413:514:374:274:521:474:274:325:145:507:18
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.Joel · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 46:13 running, 30:10 at the stations and 11:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:20) and the shortest the sled push (1:44).Below, Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 35:23 running, 32:46 at the stations and 7:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:50).

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Part Joel · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:02 2:34
SkiErg 4:22 4:30
Run 2 5:16 4:25
Sled push 1:44 2:54
Run 3 5:48 4:33
Sled pull 3:09 4:55
Run 4 6:01 4:41
Burpee broad jump 4:15 3:51
Run 5 6:21 4:37
Row 4:51 4:27
Run 6 6:11 4:52
Farmers carry 2:05 1:47
Run 7 6:19 4:27
Sandbag lunges 4:24 4:32
Run 8 7:15 5:14
Wall balls 5:20 5:50
Roxzone 11:06 7:18
Finish 1:27:22 1:15:19

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joel Sam Gap
Melbourne 2024 Open Men · 28 Jun 2024 1:27:22 1:27:20 0:02 · Sam faster
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