Alan vs Shane

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Alan Olivier

1:38:35 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
385th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Shane van der Merwe

1:38:42 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
386th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Alan: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Shane: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alan and Shane sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alan: strongest on Pull (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 29%).Shane: strongest on Push (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 26%).

See the numbers
Part Alan: faster than Shane: faster than
Ski 29% 56%
Push 37% 78%
Pull 81% 62%
BBJ 31% 59%
Row 45% 39%
Carry 41% 63%
Lunges 56% 74%
Wall balls 60% 28%
Roxzone 46% 53%
Runs 31% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Alan Shane
SkiErg 29% 56%
Sled push 37% 78%
Sled pull 81% 62%
Burpee broad jump 31% 59%
Row 45% 39%
Farmers carry 41% 63%
Sandbag lunges 56% 74%
Wall balls 60% 28%
Roxzone (moving) 46% 53%
Runs (8 km) 31% 26%

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

Alan · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:38:35
4:184:455:563:086:224:016:507:157:065:007:032:317:105:427:397:046:52
Shane · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:38:42
4:174:306:072:266:434:356:585:397:085:077:102:136:594:578:019:356:27
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.Alan · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 52:24 running, 39:26 at the stations and 6:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:15).Below, Shane · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 53:23 running, 39:02 at the stations and 6:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:35).

See the numbers
Part Alan · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Shane · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:18 4:17
SkiErg 4:45 4:30
Run 2 5:56 6:07
Sled push 3:08 2:26
Run 3 6:22 6:43
Sled pull 4:01 4:35
Run 4 6:50 6:58
Burpee broad jump 7:15 5:39
Run 5 7:06 7:08
Row 5:00 5:07
Run 6 7:03 7:10
Farmers carry 2:31 2:13
Run 7 7:10 6:59
Sandbag lunges 5:42 4:57
Run 8 7:39 8:01
Wall balls 7:04 9:35
Roxzone 6:52 6:27
Finish 1:38:35 1:38:42

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alan Shane Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:38:35 1:38:42 0:07 · Alan faster
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