Dean vs Romero

CAN CAN · Open Men · 10 results

Dean Novick

1:46:51 best Open Men time · Miami Beach 2025
793rd of 972 place in that race · 972 Open Men finishers
CAN CAN · Open Men · 1 result

Romero Newell

2:21:28 best Open Men time · Toronto 2026
1846th of 1,927 place in that race · 1,927 Open Men finishers

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

Dean: Miami Beach 2025, Open Men · Romero: Toronto 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Dean and Romero sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Dean: strongest on Pull (faster than 56% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 13%).Romero: strongest on Carry (faster than 35% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 0%).

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Part Dean: faster than Romero: faster than
Ski 41% 0%
Push 28% 1%
Pull 56% 1%
BBJ 18% 5%
Row 19% 9%
Carry 36% 35%
Lunges 13% 8%
Wall balls 25% 13%
Roxzone 29% 13%
Runs 13% 6%

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

Part by part

Part Dean Romero
SkiErg 41% 0%
Sled push 28% 1%
Sled pull 56% 1%
Burpee broad jump 18% 5%
Row 19% 9%
Farmers carry 36% 35%
Sandbag lunges 13% 8%
Wall balls 25% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 29% 13%
Runs (8 km) 13% 6%

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

Dean · Miami Beach 2025 · Open Men1:46:51
4:084:415:553:396:115:406:297:357:015:306:462:276:457:338:089:149:17
Romero · Toronto 2026 · Open Men2:21:28
7:346:247:076:497:4910:427:4210:438:175:487:392:258:3310:0111:4113:398:44
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.Dean · Miami Beach 2025 · Open Men: 51:23 running, 46:19 at the stations and 9:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:14).Below, Romero · Toronto 2026 · Open Men: 1:06:22 running, 1:06:32 at the stations and 8:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:39).

See the numbers
Part Dean · Miami Beach 2025 · Open Men Romero · Toronto 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:08 7:34
SkiErg 4:41 6:24
Run 2 5:55 7:07
Sled push 3:39 6:49
Run 3 6:11 7:49
Sled pull 5:40 10:42
Run 4 6:29 7:42
Burpee broad jump 7:35 10:43
Run 5 7:01 8:17
Row 5:30 5:48
Run 6 6:46 7:39
Farmers carry 2:27 2:25
Run 7 6:45 8:33
Sandbag lunges 7:33 10:01
Run 8 8:08 11:41
Wall balls 9:14 13:39
Roxzone 9:17 8:44
Finish 1:46:51 2:21:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Dean Romero Gap
Toronto 2026 Open Men · 1 Oct 2026 2:21:11 2:21:28 0:17 · Dean faster
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