Sam vs Merle

NED NED · Open Women · 1 result

Sam Schellekens

2:02:19 best Open Women time · Rotterdam 2026
1661st of 1,879 place in that race · 1,879 Open Women finishers
NED NED · Open Women · 1 result

Merle van de Koppel

2:02:10 best Open Women time · Rotterdam 2026
1659th of 1,879 place in that race · 1,879 Open Women finishers

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

Sam: Rotterdam 2026, Open Women · Merle: Rotterdam 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Sam and Merle sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Runs (faster than 48% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 0%).Merle: strongest on Push (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).

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Part Sam: faster than Merle: faster than
Ski 7% 3%
Push 0% 44%
Pull 36% 7%
BBJ 2% 24%
Row 7% 23%
Carry 12% 6%
Lunges 39% 9%
Wall balls 4% 26%
Roxzone 36% 1%
Runs 48% 18%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Merle
SkiErg 7% 3%
Sled push 0% 44%
Sled pull 36% 7%
Burpee broad jump 2% 24%
Row 7% 23%
Farmers carry 12% 6%
Sandbag lunges 39% 9%
Wall balls 4% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 36% 1%
Runs (8 km) 48% 18%

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

Sam · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Women2:02:19
5:106:155:3210:105:565:415:5514:476:206:266:033:106:115:317:0713:278:46
Merle · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Women2:02:10
6:036:366:182:468:237:376:268:536:105:536:203:327:067:338:508:3815:14
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.Sam · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Women: 48:14 running, 1:05:27 at the stations and 8:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (14:47).Below, Merle · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Women: 55:35 running, 51:28 at the stations and 15:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:53) and the shortest the sled push (2:46).

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Part Sam · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Women Merle · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 5:10 6:03
SkiErg 6:15 6:36
Run 2 5:32 6:18
Sled push 10:10 2:46
Run 3 5:56 8:23
Sled pull 5:41 7:37
Run 4 5:55 6:26
Burpee broad jump 14:47 8:53
Run 5 6:20 6:10
Row 6:26 5:53
Run 6 6:03 6:20
Farmers carry 3:10 3:32
Run 7 6:11 7:06
Sandbag lunges 5:31 7:33
Run 8 7:07 8:50
Wall balls 13:27 8:38
Roxzone 8:46 15:14
Finish 2:02:19 2:02:10

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Merle Gap
Rotterdam 2026 Open Women · 15 Apr 2026 2:02:19 2:02:10 0:09 · Merle faster
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