Gordon vs David

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Gordon Lishman

2:15:31 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
611th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

David Thompson

2:14:13 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
609th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Gordon: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · David: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJ
no split
RowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
GordonDavidedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Gordon and David sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gordon: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 1%).David: strongest on Ski (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).

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Part Gordon: faster than David: faster than
Ski 5% 38%
Push 29% 26%
Pull 34% 26%
BBJ 19% no split
Row 1% 26%
Carry 99% 4%
Lunges 2% 22%
Wall balls 14% 22%
Roxzone 8% 0%
Runs 5% 7%

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

Part by part

Part Gordon David
SkiErg 5% 38%
Sled push 29% 26%
Sled pull 34% 26%
Burpee broad jump 19% —
Row 1% 26%
Farmers carry 99% 4%
Sandbag lunges 2% 22%
Wall balls 14% 22%
Roxzone (moving) 8% 0%
Runs (8 km) 5% 7%

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

Gordon · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men2:15:31
4:575:246:483:189:365:279:108:148:366:328:211:1010:5113:279:4812:1811:37
David · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men2:14:13
4:464:396:413:229:425:548:268:425:228:574:098:367:399:4910:4526:26
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.Gordon · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 1:08:07 running, 55:50 at the stations and 11:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (13:27).Below, David · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 1:05:39 running, 41:50 at the stations and 26:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:45) and the shortest the sled push (3:22).

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Part Gordon · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men David · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:57 4:46
SkiErg 5:24 4:39
Run 2 6:48 6:41
Sled push 3:18 3:22
Run 3 9:36 9:42
Sled pull 5:27 5:54
Run 4 9:10 8:26
Burpee broad jump 8:14 —
Run 5 8:36 8:42
Row 6:32 5:22
Run 6 8:21 8:57
Farmers carry 1:10 4:09
Run 7 10:51 8:36
Sandbag lunges 13:27 7:39
Run 8 9:48 9:49
Wall balls 12:18 10:45
Roxzone 11:37 26:26
Finish 2:15:31 2:14:13

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gordon David Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 2:15:31 2:14:13 1:18 · David faster
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