Josh vs Ben

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Josh Cook

1:06:28 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
117th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Ben Smith

1:04:42 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
125th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Josh: Birmingham 2024, Open Men · Ben: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Josh and Ben sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Josh: strongest on Runs (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 66%).Ben: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 63%).

See the numbers
Part Josh: faster than Ben: faster than
Ski 95% 96%
Push 93% 81%
Pull 96% 72%
BBJ 83% 84%
Row 87% 95%
Carry 66% 99%
Lunges 90% 99%
Wall balls 95% 89%
Roxzone 86% 63%
Runs 97% 97%

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

Part by part

Part Josh Ben
SkiErg 95% 96%
Sled push 93% 81%
Sled pull 96% 72%
Burpee broad jump 83% 84%
Row 87% 95%
Farmers carry 66% 99%
Sandbag lunges 90% 99%
Wall balls 95% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 86% 63%
Runs (8 km) 97% 97%

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

Josh · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:06:28
4:244:013:432:104:003:273:564:244:044:243:571:573:493:464:124:245:56
Ben · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:04:42
4:194:073:552:354:113:523:574:224:004:204:051:463:382:584:264:423:32
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.Josh · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 32:05 running, 28:34 at the stations and 5:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (4:24).Below, Ben · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 32:31 running, 28:43 at the stations and 3:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:42).

See the numbers
Part Josh · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men Ben · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:24 4:19
SkiErg 4:01 4:07
Run 2 3:43 3:55
Sled push 2:10 2:35
Run 3 4:00 4:11
Sled pull 3:27 3:52
Run 4 3:56 3:57
Burpee broad jump 4:24 4:22
Run 5 4:04 4:00
Row 4:24 4:20
Run 6 3:57 4:05
Farmers carry 1:57 1:46
Run 7 3:49 3:38
Sandbag lunges 3:46 2:58
Run 8 4:12 4:26
Wall balls 4:24 4:42
Roxzone 5:56 3:32
Finish 1:06:28 1:04:42

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Josh Ben Gap
Dublin 2025 Open Men · 12 Nov 2025 1:20:58 1:20:58 level
Glasgow 2025 Open Men · 12 Mar 2025 1:34:31 1:35:42 1:11 · Josh faster
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