Matthew vs Joel

GBR GBR · Pro Men · 2 results

Matthew Shiel

1:58:01 best Pro Men time · Madrid 2025
487th of 496 place in that race · 496 Pro Men finishers
GBR GBR · Pro Men · 2 results

Joel Thomas

1:31:05 best Pro Men time · Birmingham 2024
261st of 343 place in that race · 343 Pro Men finishers

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

Matthew: Madrid 2025, Pro Men · Joel: Birmingham 2024, Pro Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Joel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Push (faster than 60% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 1%).Joel: strongest on Ski (faster than 55% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 7%).

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Part Matthew: faster than Joel: faster than
Ski 5% 55%
Push 60% 7%
Pull 5% 49%
BBJ 9% 10%
Row 1% 23%
Carry 7% 32%
Lunges 32% 7%
Wall balls 1% 36%
Roxzone 3% 20%
Runs 2% 36%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Joel
SkiErg 5% 55%
Sled push 60% 7%
Sled pull 5% 49%
Burpee broad jump 9% 10%
Row 1% 23%
Farmers carry 7% 32%
Sandbag lunges 32% 7%
Wall balls 1% 36%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 20%
Runs (8 km) 2% 36%

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

Matthew · Madrid 2025 · Pro Men1:58:01
5:524:556:073:466:378:327:006:196:515:426:273:496:375:208:2115:4410:13
Joel · Birmingham 2024 · Pro Men1:31:05
4:564:094:174:324:355:554:437:174:474:474:502:295:007:315:387:318:15
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.Matthew · Madrid 2025 · Pro Men: 53:53 running, 54:07 at the stations and 10:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:44) and the shortest the sled push (3:46).Below, Joel · Birmingham 2024 · Pro Men: 38:45 running, 44:11 at the stations and 8:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (7:31).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Madrid 2025 · Pro Men Joel · Birmingham 2024 · Pro Men
Run 1 5:52 4:56
SkiErg 4:55 4:09
Run 2 6:07 4:17
Sled push 3:46 4:32
Run 3 6:37 4:35
Sled pull 8:32 5:55
Run 4 7:00 4:43
Burpee broad jump 6:19 7:17
Run 5 6:51 4:47
Row 5:42 4:47
Run 6 6:27 4:50
Farmers carry 3:49 2:29
Run 7 6:37 5:00
Sandbag lunges 5:20 7:31
Run 8 8:21 5:38
Wall balls 15:44 7:31
Roxzone 10:13 8:15
Finish 1:58:01 1:31:05

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Joel Gap
Madrid 2025 Pro Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:58:01 1:57:42 0:19 · Joel faster
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