Byron vs Willem

RSA RSA · Open Men · 7 results

Byron Louw

1:23:23 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
174th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Willem Louw

1:23:32 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
175th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Byron: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Willem: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Byron and Willem sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Byron: strongest on Carry (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 28%).Willem: strongest on Carry (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 39%).

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Part Byron: faster than Willem: faster than
Ski 78% 70%
Push 28% 73%
Pull 42% 61%
BBJ 45% 65%
Row 41% 41%
Carry 80% 90%
Lunges 61% 53%
Wall balls 76% 39%
Roxzone 70% 57%
Runs 79% 83%

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

Part by part

Part Byron Willem
SkiErg 78% 70%
Sled push 28% 73%
Sled pull 42% 61%
Burpee broad jump 45% 65%
Row 41% 41%
Farmers carry 80% 90%
Sandbag lunges 61% 53%
Wall balls 76% 39%
Roxzone (moving) 70% 57%
Runs (8 km) 79% 83%

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

Byron · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:23:23
3:214:174:453:215:185:095:076:275:325:045:001:575:155:265:586:065:27
Willem · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:23:32
3:404:224:532:304:594:365:095:255:125:044:541:475:025:485:428:306:08
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.Byron · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 40:16 running, 37:47 at the stations and 5:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:27).Below, Willem · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 39:31 running, 38:02 at the stations and 6:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:30).

See the numbers
Part Byron · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Willem · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:21 3:40
SkiErg 4:17 4:22
Run 2 4:45 4:53
Sled push 3:21 2:30
Run 3 5:18 4:59
Sled pull 5:09 4:36
Run 4 5:07 5:09
Burpee broad jump 6:27 5:25
Run 5 5:32 5:12
Row 5:04 5:04
Run 6 5:00 4:54
Farmers carry 1:57 1:47
Run 7 5:15 5:02
Sandbag lunges 5:26 5:48
Run 8 5:58 5:42
Wall balls 6:06 8:30
Roxzone 5:27 6:08
Finish 1:23:23 1:23:32

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Byron Willem Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:23:23 1:23:32 0:09 · Byron faster
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:30:11 1:32:49 2:38 · Byron faster
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