Michael vs Liam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Difford

2:08:41 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3827th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
SHN · Open Men · 1 result

Liam Fenn

2:08:47 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3829th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Liam: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Liam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).Liam: strongest on Push (faster than 16% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 0%).

See the numbers
Part Michael: faster than Liam: faster than
Ski 2% 0%
Push 3% 16%
Pull 7% 4%
BBJ 3% 3%
Row 8% 1%
Carry 75% 8%
Lunges 5% 14%
Wall balls 6% 5%
Roxzone 1% 2%
Runs 4% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Liam
SkiErg 2% 0%
Sled push 3% 16%
Sled pull 7% 4%
Burpee broad jump 3% 3%
Row 8% 1%
Farmers carry 75% 8%
Sandbag lunges 5% 14%
Wall balls 6% 5%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 2%
Runs (8 km) 4% 4%

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

Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:08:41
7:135:236:115:556:507:317:0510:337:095:326:461:517:228:498:4413:1312:43
Liam · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:08:47
7:285:506:084:257:488:116:4310:587:036:236:213:136:347:148:4313:5212:00
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.Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 57:20 running, 58:47 at the stations and 12:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:13).Below, Liam · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 56:49 running, 1:00:06 at the stations and 12:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:52).

See the numbers
Part Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Liam · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:13 7:28
SkiErg 5:23 5:50
Run 2 6:11 6:08
Sled push 5:55 4:25
Run 3 6:50 7:48
Sled pull 7:31 8:11
Run 4 7:05 6:43
Burpee broad jump 10:33 10:58
Run 5 7:09 7:03
Row 5:32 6:23
Run 6 6:46 6:21
Farmers carry 1:51 3:13
Run 7 7:22 6:34
Sandbag lunges 8:49 7:14
Run 8 8:44 8:43
Wall balls 13:13 13:52
Roxzone 12:43 12:00
Finish 2:08:41 2:08:47

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Liam Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:08:41 2:08:47 0:06 · Michael faster
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