Kevin vs Zak

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Kevin Anger

1:38:16 best Open Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
579th of 814 place in that race · 814 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Zak Kessler

1:46:41 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
1255th of 1,622 place in that race · 1,622 Open Men finishers

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

Kevin: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men · Zak: Chicago 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kevin and Zak sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kevin: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 17%).Zak: strongest on Push (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 12%).

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Part Kevin: faster than Zak: faster than
Ski 28% 24%
Push 19% 74%
Pull 17% 21%
BBJ 28% 60%
Row 30% 12%
Carry 65% 30%
Lunges 45% 18%
Wall balls 67% 26%
Roxzone 28% 39%
Runs 24% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Kevin Zak
SkiErg 28% 24%
Sled push 19% 74%
Sled pull 17% 21%
Burpee broad jump 28% 60%
Row 30% 12%
Farmers carry 65% 30%
Sandbag lunges 45% 18%
Wall balls 67% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 28% 39%
Runs (8 km) 24% 16%

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

Kevin · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men1:38:16
4:194:415:413:396:396:126:426:586:255:056:341:566:085:307:295:338:53
Zak · Chicago 2025 · Open Men1:46:41
4:244:466:132:137:066:206:595:477:135:306:472:247:087:019:469:427:31
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.Kevin · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 49:57 running, 39:34 at the stations and 8:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:58).Below, Zak · Chicago 2025 · Open Men: 55:36 running, 43:43 at the stations and 7:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:42) and the shortest the sled push (2:13).

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Part Kevin · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men Zak · Chicago 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:19 4:24
SkiErg 4:41 4:46
Run 2 5:41 6:13
Sled push 3:39 2:13
Run 3 6:39 7:06
Sled pull 6:12 6:20
Run 4 6:42 6:59
Burpee broad jump 6:58 5:47
Run 5 6:25 7:13
Row 5:05 5:30
Run 6 6:34 6:47
Farmers carry 1:56 2:24
Run 7 6:08 7:08
Sandbag lunges 5:30 7:01
Run 8 7:29 9:46
Wall balls 5:33 9:42
Roxzone 8:53 7:31
Finish 1:38:16 1:46:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kevin Zak Gap
Chicago 2025 Open Men · 14 Nov 2025 1:46:45 1:46:41 0:04 · Zak faster
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