Vainon vs Chad

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Vainon Willis

1:36:20 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
403rd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Chad Thomas

1:36:27 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
404th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Vainon: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Chad: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
VainonChadedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Vainon and Chad sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Vainon: strongest on Pull (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 2%).Chad: strongest on Ski (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 9%).

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Part Vainon: faster than Chad: faster than
Ski 51% 74%
Push 69% 30%
Pull 72% 58%
BBJ 55% 53%
Row 2% 73%
Carry 67% 50%
Lunges 63% 9%
Wall balls 32% 31%
Roxzone 47% 64%
Runs 54% 56%

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

Part by part

Part Vainon Chad
SkiErg 51% 74%
Sled push 69% 30%
Sled pull 72% 58%
Burpee broad jump 55% 53%
Row 2% 73%
Farmers carry 67% 50%
Sandbag lunges 63% 9%
Wall balls 32% 31%
Roxzone (moving) 47% 64%
Runs (8 km) 54% 56%

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

Vainon · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:36:20
3:304:275:152:425:594:336:065:436:018:086:231:596:105:067:189:317:38
Chad · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:36:27
3:124:155:193:356:045:045:395:526:214:476:082:106:068:177:319:396:36
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.Vainon · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 46:42 running, 42:09 at the stations and 7:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:31).Below, Chad · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 46:20 running, 43:39 at the stations and 6:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:39).

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Part Vainon · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Chad · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:30 3:12
SkiErg 4:27 4:15
Run 2 5:15 5:19
Sled push 2:42 3:35
Run 3 5:59 6:04
Sled pull 4:33 5:04
Run 4 6:06 5:39
Burpee broad jump 5:43 5:52
Run 5 6:01 6:21
Row 8:08 4:47
Run 6 6:23 6:08
Farmers carry 1:59 2:10
Run 7 6:10 6:06
Sandbag lunges 5:06 8:17
Run 8 7:18 7:31
Wall balls 9:31 9:39
Roxzone 7:38 6:36
Finish 1:36:20 1:36:27

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Vainon Chad Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:36:20 1:36:27 0:07 · Vainon faster
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