Laurens vs Niels
Laurens Raes
Niels Bönker
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Laurens: Utrecht 2025, Pro Men · Niels: Berlin 2026, Open Men
Not the same division. Laurens's race here is Pro Men and Niels's is Open Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.
This chart shows where Laurens and Niels sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Laurens: strongest on Row (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 12%).Niels: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 40%).
See the numbers
| Part | Laurens: faster than | Niels: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 51% | 76% |
| Push | 42% | 40% |
| Pull | 44% | 64% |
| BBJ | 23% | 55% |
| Row | 83% | 82% |
| Carry | 28% | 68% |
| Lunges | 48% | 76% |
| Wall balls | 14% | 95% |
| Roxzone | 27% | 86% |
| Runs | 12% | 83% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Laurens | Niels |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 51% | 76% |
| Sled push | 42% | 40% |
| Sled pull | 44% | 64% |
| Burpee broad jump | 23% | 55% |
| Row | 83% | 82% |
| Farmers carry | 28% | 68% |
| Sandbag lunges | 48% | 76% |
| Wall balls | 14% | 95% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 27% | 86% |
| Runs (8 km) | 12% | 83% |
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
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.Laurens · Utrecht 2025 · Pro Men: 47:27 running, 44:50 at the stations and 5:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:40).Below, Niels · Berlin 2026 · Open Men: 29:31 running, 32:51 at the stations and 11:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:29).
See the numbers
| Part | Laurens · Utrecht 2025 · Pro Men | Niels · Berlin 2026 · Open Men |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 5:17 | 3:10 |
| SkiErg | 4:16 | 4:20 |
| Run 2 | 5:43 | 3:22 |
| Sled push | 5:08 | 3:32 |
| Run 3 | 6:08 | 3:27 |
| Sled pull | 6:43 | 4:01 |
| Run 4 | 6:03 | 3:27 |
| Burpee broad jump | 5:53 | 5:29 |
| Run 5 | 6:09 | 3:32 |
| Row | 4:19 | 4:31 |
| Run 6 | 6:55 | 3:31 |
| Farmers carry | 2:45 | 2:03 |
| Run 7 | 6:27 | 3:36 |
| Sandbag lunges | 5:06 | 4:28 |
| Run 8 | 4:45 | 5:25 |
| Wall balls | 10:40 | 4:27 |
| Roxzone | 5:51 | 11:20 |
| Finish | 1:37:59 | 1:13:32 |
Head to head: 3 races they both ran
| Race | Laurens | Niels | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utrecht 2025 Pro Men · 28 Nov 2025 | 1:37:59 | 1:38:14 | 0:15 · Laurens faster |
| Maastricht 2025 Doubles Men · 19 Sep 2025 | 1:27:35 | 1:02:19 | 25:16 · Niels faster |
| Mechelen 2025 Doubles Men · 4 Apr 2025 | 1:25:27 | 1:11:06 | 14:21 · Niels faster |
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