Paul vs James

NZL NZL · Open Men · 2 results

Paul Bucknell

1:51:31 best Open Men time · Auckland 2026
955th of 1,138 place in that race · 1,138 Open Men finishers
NZL NZL · Open Men · 4 results

James Macken

1:51:39 best Open Men time · Auckland 2026
957th of 1,138 place in that race · 1,138 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Auckland 2026, Open Men · James: Auckland 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Carry (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 5%).James: strongest on Pull (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 6%).

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Part Paul: faster than James: faster than
Ski 71% 61%
Push 27% 70%
Pull 43% 71%
BBJ 23% 6%
Row 5% 24%
Carry 87% 51%
Lunges 8% 15%
Wall balls 28% 46%
Roxzone 25% 22%
Runs 11% 8%

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

Part by part

Part Paul James
SkiErg 71% 61%
Sled push 27% 70%
Sled pull 43% 71%
Burpee broad jump 23% 6%
Row 5% 24%
Farmers carry 87% 51%
Sandbag lunges 8% 15%
Wall balls 28% 46%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 22%
Runs (8 km) 11% 8%

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

Paul · Auckland 2026 · Open Men1:51:31
5:524:146:123:537:455:187:157:307:305:487:091:387:359:068:568:347:26
James · Auckland 2026 · Open Men1:51:39
6:344:186:042:596:284:266:529:417:505:167:122:018:297:5310:497:137:43
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.Paul · Auckland 2026 · Open Men: 58:14 running, 46:01 at the stations and 7:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (9:06).Below, James · Auckland 2026 · Open Men: 1:00:19 running, 43:47 at the stations and 7:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:41).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Auckland 2026 · Open Men James · Auckland 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:52 6:34
SkiErg 4:14 4:18
Run 2 6:12 6:04
Sled push 3:53 2:59
Run 3 7:45 6:28
Sled pull 5:18 4:26
Run 4 7:15 6:52
Burpee broad jump 7:30 9:41
Run 5 7:30 7:50
Row 5:48 5:16
Run 6 7:09 7:12
Farmers carry 1:38 2:01
Run 7 7:35 8:29
Sandbag lunges 9:06 7:53
Run 8 8:56 10:49
Wall balls 8:34 7:13
Roxzone 7:26 7:43
Finish 1:51:31 1:51:39

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul James Gap
Auckland 2026 Open Men · 29 Jan 2026 1:51:31 1:51:39 0:08 · Paul faster
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