Michel vs Shah

NED NED · Open Men · 6 results

Michel Dobber

1:29:23 best Open Men time · Stockholm 2025
1101st of 1,805 place in that race · 1,805 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Shah Akhtar

1:28:45 best Open Men time · Istanbul 2026
311th of 609 place in that race · 609 Open Men finishers

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

Michel: Stockholm 2025, Open Men · Shah: Istanbul 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michel and Shah sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michel: strongest on Pull (faster than 59% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 23%).Shah: strongest on Runs (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 10%).

See the numbers
Part Michel: faster than Shah: faster than
Ski 26% 43%
Push 30% 16%
Pull 59% 10%
BBJ 55% 26%
Row 48% 40%
Carry 23% 46%
Lunges 44% 50%
Wall balls 50% 53%
Roxzone 41% 61%
Runs 28% 63%

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

Part by part

Part Michel Shah
SkiErg 26% 43%
Sled push 30% 16%
Sled pull 59% 10%
Burpee broad jump 55% 26%
Row 48% 40%
Farmers carry 23% 46%
Sandbag lunges 44% 50%
Wall balls 50% 53%
Roxzone (moving) 41% 61%
Runs (8 km) 28% 63%

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

Michel · Stockholm 2025 · Open Men1:29:23
5:144:395:203:025:284:245:235:245:304:445:242:205:405:276:097:158:08
Shah · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men1:28:45
4:514:374:093:494:317:044:386:414:464:544:422:234:565:205:276:559:11
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.Michel · Stockholm 2025 · Open Men: 44:08 running, 37:14 at the stations and 8:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:15).Below, Shah · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men: 38:00 running, 41:43 at the stations and 9:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (7:04).

See the numbers
Part Michel · Stockholm 2025 · Open Men Shah · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:14 4:51
SkiErg 4:39 4:37
Run 2 5:20 4:09
Sled push 3:02 3:49
Run 3 5:28 4:31
Sled pull 4:24 7:04
Run 4 5:23 4:38
Burpee broad jump 5:24 6:41
Run 5 5:30 4:46
Row 4:44 4:54
Run 6 5:24 4:42
Farmers carry 2:20 2:23
Run 7 5:40 4:56
Sandbag lunges 5:27 5:20
Run 8 6:09 5:27
Wall balls 7:15 6:55
Roxzone 8:08 9:11
Finish 1:29:23 1:28:45

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michel Shah Gap
Amsterdam 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:30:54 1:30:56 0:02 · Michel faster
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