Max vs Gert

NED NED · Open Men · 16 results

Max Niessen

1:09:20 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2025
117th of 1,541 place in that race · 1,541 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 6 results

Gert Jan de Jong

1:12:19 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2026
340th of 2,721 place in that race · 2,721 Open Men finishers

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

Max: Heerenveen 2025, Open Men · Gert: Rotterdam 2026, Open Men

50% top Ski
no split
PushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MaxGertedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Max and Gert sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Max: strongest on Carry (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 36%).Gert: strongest on Pull (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 61%).

See the numbers
Part Max: faster than Gert: faster than
Ski no split 90%
Push 36% 61%
Pull 94% 94%
BBJ 88% 84%
Row 72% 62%
Carry 98% 85%
Lunges 86% 88%
Wall balls 87% 89%
Roxzone 52% 84%
Runs 90% 78%

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

Part by part

Part Max Gert
SkiErg — 90%
Sled push 36% 61%
Sled pull 94% 94%
Burpee broad jump 88% 84%
Row 72% 62%
Farmers carry 98% 85%
Sandbag lunges 86% 88%
Wall balls 87% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 52% 84%
Runs (8 km) 90% 78%

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

Max · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men1:09:20
3:533:572:594:133:294:084:154:254:374:081:244:234:024:344:468:05
Gert · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Men1:12:19
4:274:224:192:364:213:184:284:174:434:444:321:464:443:555:235:055:29
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.Max · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men: 33:41 running, 25:32 at the stations and 8:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:46).Below, Gert · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Men: 36:57 running, 30:03 at the stations and 5:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:05).

See the numbers
Part Max · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men Gert · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:53 4:27
SkiErg — 4:22
Run 2 3:57 4:19
Sled push 2:59 2:36
Run 3 4:13 4:21
Sled pull 3:29 3:18
Run 4 4:08 4:28
Burpee broad jump 4:15 4:17
Run 5 4:25 4:43
Row 4:37 4:44
Run 6 4:08 4:32
Farmers carry 1:24 1:46
Run 7 4:23 4:44
Sandbag lunges 4:02 3:55
Run 8 4:34 5:23
Wall balls 4:46 5:05
Roxzone 8:05 5:29
Finish 1:09:20 1:12:19

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Max Gert Gap
Amsterdam 2026 Pro Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:20:40 1:20:36 0:04 · Gert faster
Heerenveen 2025 Open Men · 10 May 2025 1:09:20 1:19:22 10:02 · Max faster
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