Sam vs Jakob

AUS AUS · Pro Men · 11 results

Sam Shepherd

58:20 best Pro Men time · Perth 2026
8th of 293 place in that race · 293 Pro Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 20 results

Jakob Cerneka

58:32 best Pro Men time · Perth 2026
9th of 293 place in that race · 293 Pro Men finishers

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

Sam: Perth 2026, Open Men · Jakob: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
SamJakobedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Sam and Jakob sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Lunges (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 88%).Jakob: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 93%).

See the numbers
Part Sam: faster than Jakob: faster than
Ski 88% 93%
Push 96% 97%
Pull 97% 99%
BBJ 99% 99%
Row 99% 96%
Carry 99% 97%
Lunges 99% 99%
Wall balls 99% 99%
Roxzone 99% 99%
Runs 99% 99%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Jakob
SkiErg 88% 93%
Sled push 96% 97%
Sled pull 97% 99%
Burpee broad jump 99% 99%
Row 99% 96%
Farmers carry 99% 97%
Sandbag lunges 99% 99%
Wall balls 99% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 99%
Runs (8 km) 99% 99%

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 · Perth 2026 · Open Men55:39
2:534:063:422:023:533:033:522:223:544:063:531:413:332:453:213:223:15
Jakob · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men55:26
2:004:043:211:483:242:433:272:483:304:153:231:293:252:543:563:145:51
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 · Perth 2026 · Open Men: 29:01 running, 23:27 at the stations and 3:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:06).Below, Jakob · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 26:26 running, 23:15 at the stations and 5:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:15).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Perth 2026 · Open Men Jakob · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:53 2:00
SkiErg 4:06 4:04
Run 2 3:42 3:21
Sled push 2:02 1:48
Run 3 3:53 3:24
Sled pull 3:03 2:43
Run 4 3:52 3:27
Burpee broad jump 2:22 2:48
Run 5 3:54 3:30
Row 4:06 4:15
Run 6 3:53 3:23
Farmers carry 1:41 1:29
Run 7 3:33 3:25
Sandbag lunges 2:45 2:54
Run 8 3:21 3:56
Wall balls 3:22 3:14
Roxzone 3:15 5:51
Finish 55:39 55:26

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Jakob Gap
Perth 2026 Pro Men · 21 Aug 2026 58:20 58:32 0:12 · Sam faster
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