Mel vs Alexandra

NZL NZL · Open Women · 2 results

Mel O'Brien

1:19:01 best Open Women time · Auckland 2026
60th of 929 place in that race · 929 Open Women finishers
AUS AUS · Open Women · 4 results

Alexandra Smiroldo

1:08:04 best Open Women time · Sydney 2025
12th of 1,507 place in that race · 1,507 Open Women finishers

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

Mel: Auckland 2026, Open Women · Alexandra: Sydney 2025, Open Women

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MelAlexandraedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Mel and Alexandra sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mel: strongest on Runs (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 45%).Alexandra: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 86%).

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Part Mel: faster than Alexandra: faster than
Ski 66% 99%
Push 85% 86%
Pull 45% 98%
BBJ 94% 98%
Row 51% 99%
Carry 81% 88%
Lunges 87% 93%
Wall balls 64% 95%
Roxzone 84% 99%
Runs 97% 98%

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

Part by part

Part Mel Alexandra
SkiErg 66% 99%
Sled push 85% 86%
Sled pull 45% 98%
Burpee broad jump 94% 98%
Row 51% 99%
Farmers carry 81% 88%
Sandbag lunges 87% 93%
Wall balls 64% 95%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 99%
Runs (8 km) 97% 98%

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

Mel · Auckland 2026 · Open Women1:19:01
4:484:544:152:364:426:194:404:564:365:344:381:534:424:195:235:564:59
Alexandra · Sydney 2025 · Open Women1:08:04
3:254:173:521:543:593:534:034:034:094:344:081:564:023:415:264:116:31
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.Mel · Auckland 2026 · Open Women: 37:44 running, 36:27 at the stations and 4:59 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:19).Below, Alexandra · Sydney 2025 · Open Women: 33:04 running, 28:28 at the stations and 6:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:34) and the shortest the sled push (1:54).

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Part Mel · Auckland 2026 · Open Women Alexandra · Sydney 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 4:48 3:25
SkiErg 4:54 4:17
Run 2 4:15 3:52
Sled push 2:36 1:54
Run 3 4:42 3:59
Sled pull 6:19 3:53
Run 4 4:40 4:03
Burpee broad jump 4:56 4:03
Run 5 4:36 4:09
Row 5:34 4:34
Run 6 4:38 4:08
Farmers carry 1:53 1:56
Run 7 4:42 4:02
Sandbag lunges 4:19 3:41
Run 8 5:23 5:26
Wall balls 5:56 4:11
Roxzone 4:59 6:31
Finish 1:19:01 1:08:04

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mel Alexandra Gap
Auckland 2026 Open Women · 29 Jan 2026 1:19:01 1:18:59 0:02 · Alexandra faster
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