Francois vs Stefan

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Francois du Plessis

2:08:17 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
360th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Stefan Steyn

2:07:03 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
359th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers

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

Francois: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men · Stefan: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Francois and Stefan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Francois: strongest on Carry (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 7%).Stefan: strongest on Row (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 7%).

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Part Francois: faster than Stefan: faster than
Ski 55% 13%
Push 51% 13%
Pull 46% 7%
BBJ 17% 17%
Row 32% 38%
Carry 77% 10%
Lunges 15% 23%
Wall balls 30% 29%
Roxzone 23% 16%
Runs 7% 15%

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

Part by part

Part Francois Stefan
SkiErg 55% 13%
Sled push 51% 13%
Sled pull 46% 7%
Burpee broad jump 17% 17%
Row 32% 38%
Farmers carry 77% 10%
Sandbag lunges 15% 23%
Wall balls 30% 29%
Roxzone (moving) 23% 16%
Runs (8 km) 7% 15%

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

Francois · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men2:08:17
4:154:317:193:0010:275:198:219:3011:185:288:062:037:487:4212:2910:2010:29
Stefan · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men2:07:03
7:075:066:573:577:328:087:369:248:365:238:023:188:026:519:3110:2511:15
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.Francois · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 1:10:03 running, 47:53 at the stations and 10:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:20).Below, Stefan · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 1:03:23 running, 52:32 at the stations and 11:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:25).

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Part Francois · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men Stefan · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:15 7:07
SkiErg 4:31 5:06
Run 2 7:19 6:57
Sled push 3:00 3:57
Run 3 10:27 7:32
Sled pull 5:19 8:08
Run 4 8:21 7:36
Burpee broad jump 9:30 9:24
Run 5 11:18 8:36
Row 5:28 5:23
Run 6 8:06 8:02
Farmers carry 2:03 3:18
Run 7 7:48 8:02
Sandbag lunges 7:42 6:51
Run 8 12:29 9:31
Wall balls 10:20 10:25
Roxzone 10:29 11:15
Finish 2:08:17 2:07:03

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Francois Stefan Gap
Johannesburg (I) 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 2:08:17 2:07:03 1:14 · Stefan faster
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