Chris vs Ryan

GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Chris Strong

1:11:16 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
434th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 9 results

Ryan Dempsey

1:08:18 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
255th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Chris: Cardiff 2026, Open Men · Ryan: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Chris and Ryan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Chris: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 37%).Ryan: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 67%).

See the numbers
Part Chris: faster than Ryan: faster than
Ski 37% 67%
Push 41% 87%
Pull 63% 90%
BBJ 79% 90%
Row 54% 93%
Carry 90% 75%
Lunges 68% 91%
Wall balls 87% 98%
Roxzone 92% 87%
Runs 86% 80%

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

Part by part

Part Chris Ryan
SkiErg 37% 67%
Sled push 41% 87%
Sled pull 63% 90%
Burpee broad jump 79% 90%
Row 54% 93%
Farmers carry 90% 75%
Sandbag lunges 68% 91%
Wall balls 87% 98%
Roxzone (moving) 92% 87%
Runs (8 km) 86% 80%

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

Chris · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:11:16
4:304:414:003:154:174:034:214:374:324:474:382:044:134:275:194:492:45
Ryan · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:08:18
4:444:274:132:284:233:224:284:014:454:224:502:204:163:395:193:512:54
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.Chris · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 35:50 running, 32:43 at the stations and 2:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:49).Below, Ryan · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 36:58 running, 28:31 at the stations and 2:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:27).

See the numbers
Part Chris · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men Ryan · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:30 4:44
SkiErg 4:41 4:27
Run 2 4:00 4:13
Sled push 3:15 2:28
Run 3 4:17 4:23
Sled pull 4:03 3:22
Run 4 4:21 4:28
Burpee broad jump 4:37 4:01
Run 5 4:32 4:45
Row 4:47 4:22
Run 6 4:38 4:50
Farmers carry 2:04 2:20
Run 7 4:13 4:16
Sandbag lunges 4:27 3:39
Run 8 5:19 5:19
Wall balls 4:49 3:51
Roxzone 2:45 2:54
Finish 1:11:16 1:08:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Chris Ryan Gap
Cardiff 2026 Open Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:11:16 1:11:17 0:01 · Chris faster
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