Alex vs Richard

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Alex Tang

1:28:38 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
786th of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 13 results

Richard Smith

1:17:48 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1952nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Manchester 2025, Open Men · Richard: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Richard sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on Row (faster than 69% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 20%).Richard: strongest on Ski (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 11%).

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Part Alex: faster than Richard: faster than
Ski 56% 93%
Push 30% 11%
Pull 20% 55%
BBJ 40% 74%
Row 69% 67%
Carry 41% 44%
Lunges 66% 28%
Wall balls 43% 85%
Roxzone 22% 65%
Runs 32% 65%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Richard
SkiErg 56% 93%
Sled push 30% 11%
Sled pull 20% 55%
Burpee broad jump 40% 74%
Row 69% 67%
Farmers carry 41% 44%
Sandbag lunges 66% 28%
Wall balls 43% 85%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 65%
Runs (8 km) 32% 65%

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

Alex · Manchester 2025 · Open Men1:28:38
3:264:165:092:576:015:306:105:376:014:305:432:115:324:345:516:548:14
Richard · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:17:48
2:464:253:353:393:414:403:474:333:554:464:012:074:016:055:415:1910:54
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.Alex · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 43:53 running, 36:29 at the stations and 8:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:54).Below, Richard · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 31:27 running, 35:35 at the stations and 10:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:05).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Manchester 2025 · Open Men Richard · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:26 2:46
SkiErg 4:16 4:25
Run 2 5:09 3:35
Sled push 2:57 3:39
Run 3 6:01 3:41
Sled pull 5:30 4:40
Run 4 6:10 3:47
Burpee broad jump 5:37 4:33
Run 5 6:01 3:55
Row 4:30 4:46
Run 6 5:43 4:01
Farmers carry 2:11 2:07
Run 7 5:32 4:01
Sandbag lunges 4:34 6:05
Run 8 5:51 5:41
Wall balls 6:54 5:19
Roxzone 8:14 10:54
Finish 1:28:38 1:17:48

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Richard Gap
Manchester 2025 Open Men · 24 Jan 2025 1:28:38 1:28:32 0:06 · Richard faster
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