Liam vs Franco

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Liam Barnwell

2:21:03 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
743rd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Franco Smit

2:21:35 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
745th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Liam: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Franco: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Liam and Franco sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Liam: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 22% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).Franco: strongest on BBJ (faster than 21% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 1%).

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Part Liam: faster than Franco: faster than
Ski 1% 9%
Push 5% 15%
Pull 5% 1%
BBJ 17% 21%
Row 4% 5%
Carry 3% 8%
Lunges 3% 7%
Wall balls 22% 8%
Roxzone 12% 5%
Runs 6% 6%

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

Part by part

Part Liam Franco
SkiErg 1% 9%
Sled push 5% 15%
Sled pull 5% 1%
Burpee broad jump 17% 21%
Row 4% 5%
Farmers carry 3% 8%
Sandbag lunges 3% 7%
Wall balls 22% 8%
Roxzone (moving) 12% 5%
Runs (8 km) 6% 6%

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

Liam · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men2:21:03
6:345:417:035:1412:148:528:478:259:107:447:483:407:4410:409:4010:4111:16
Franco · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men2:21:35
3:535:028:574:1211:1311:019:457:577:526:567:243:056:378:3811:4814:1613:07
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.Liam · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 1:09:00 running, 1:00:57 at the stations and 11:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:41).Below, Franco · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 1:07:29 running, 1:01:07 at the stations and 13:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:16).

See the numbers
Part Liam · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Franco · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:34 3:53
SkiErg 5:41 5:02
Run 2 7:03 8:57
Sled push 5:14 4:12
Run 3 12:14 11:13
Sled pull 8:52 11:01
Run 4 8:47 9:45
Burpee broad jump 8:25 7:57
Run 5 9:10 7:52
Row 7:44 6:56
Run 6 7:48 7:24
Farmers carry 3:40 3:05
Run 7 7:44 6:37
Sandbag lunges 10:40 8:38
Run 8 9:40 11:48
Wall balls 10:41 14:16
Roxzone 11:16 13:07
Finish 2:21:03 2:21:35

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Liam Franco Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 2:21:03 2:21:35 0:32 · Liam faster
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