Merlin vs Jonathan

BEL BEL · Open Men · 3 results

Merlin Roggeman

1:21:35 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
621st of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 1 result

Jonathan Planel

1:21:34 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
619th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers

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

Merlin: Ghent 2025, Open Men · Jonathan: Ghent 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Merlin and Jonathan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Merlin: strongest on Runs (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 7%).Jonathan: strongest on Push (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 30%).

See the numbers
Part Merlin: faster than Jonathan: faster than
Ski 54% 83%
Push 42% 93%
Pull 7% 69%
BBJ 53% 62%
Row 42% 88%
Carry 18% 68%
Lunges 71% 69%
Wall balls 23% 30%
Roxzone 58% 61%
Runs 84% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Merlin Jonathan
SkiErg 54% 83%
Sled push 42% 93%
Sled pull 7% 69%
Burpee broad jump 53% 62%
Row 42% 88%
Farmers carry 18% 68%
Sandbag lunges 71% 69%
Wall balls 23% 30%
Roxzone (moving) 58% 61%
Runs (8 km) 84% 48%

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

Merlin · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:21:35
4:134:294:023:095:026:594:295:174:254:504:132:294:114:194:188:546:24
Jonathan · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:21:34
4:524:164:462:205:024:315:014:545:114:265:051:515:124:235:208:126:19
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.Merlin · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 34:53 running, 40:25 at the stations and 6:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:54).Below, Jonathan · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 40:29 running, 34:53 at the stations and 6:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:12).

See the numbers
Part Merlin · Ghent 2025 · Open Men Jonathan · Ghent 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:13 4:52
SkiErg 4:29 4:16
Run 2 4:02 4:46
Sled push 3:09 2:20
Run 3 5:02 5:02
Sled pull 6:59 4:31
Run 4 4:29 5:01
Burpee broad jump 5:17 4:54
Run 5 4:25 5:11
Row 4:50 4:26
Run 6 4:13 5:05
Farmers carry 2:29 1:51
Run 7 4:11 5:12
Sandbag lunges 4:19 4:23
Run 8 4:18 5:20
Wall balls 8:54 8:12
Roxzone 6:24 6:19
Finish 1:21:35 1:21:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merlin Jonathan Gap
Ghent 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:21:35 1:21:34 0:01 · Jonathan faster
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