Brendan vs John

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Brendan O'Brien

1:29:56 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
2027th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

John Mackenzie

1:29:55 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
2026th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Brendan: Sydney 2026, Open Men · John: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Brendan and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brendan: strongest on Runs (faster than 55% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 18%).John: strongest on Ski (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part Brendan: faster than John: faster than
Ski 27% 73%
Push 53% 59%
Pull 49% 18%
BBJ 27% 71%
Row 18% 52%
Carry 18% 65%
Lunges 32% 67%
Wall balls 35% 13%
Roxzone 24% 35%
Runs 55% 42%

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

Part by part

Part Brendan John
SkiErg 27% 73%
Sled push 53% 59%
Sled pull 49% 18%
Burpee broad jump 27% 71%
Row 18% 52%
Farmers carry 18% 65%
Sandbag lunges 32% 67%
Wall balls 35% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 35%
Runs (8 km) 55% 42%

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

Brendan · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:29:56
3:494:394:032:354:114:294:256:594:575:125:042:395:066:267:168:0110:13
John · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:29:55
4:074:164:322:305:065:434:504:535:114:445:021:545:234:556:4310:509:25
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.Brendan · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 38:52 running, 40:59 at the stations and 10:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:01) and the shortest the sled push (2:35).Below, John · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 40:53 running, 39:45 at the stations and 9:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:50).

See the numbers
Part Brendan · Sydney 2026 · Open Men John · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:49 4:07
SkiErg 4:39 4:16
Run 2 4:03 4:32
Sled push 2:35 2:30
Run 3 4:11 5:06
Sled pull 4:29 5:43
Run 4 4:25 4:50
Burpee broad jump 6:59 4:53
Run 5 4:57 5:11
Row 5:12 4:44
Run 6 5:04 5:02
Farmers carry 2:39 1:54
Run 7 5:06 5:23
Sandbag lunges 6:26 4:55
Run 8 7:16 6:43
Wall balls 8:01 10:50
Roxzone 10:13 9:25
Finish 1:29:56 1:29:55

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brendan John Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 1:29:56 1:29:55 0:01 · John faster
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