Paul vs Sander

NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Paul van Hees

1:33:18 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
1327th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 4 results

Sander Windeij

1:26:01 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2025
807th of 1,541 place in that race · 1,541 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men · Sander: Heerenveen 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Sander sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 40% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 16%).Sander: strongest on Push (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 14%).

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Part Paul: faster than Sander: faster than
Ski 24% 14%
Push 20% 79%
Pull 29% 46%
BBJ 30% 63%
Row 28% 32%
Carry 16% 57%
Lunges 39% 61%
Wall balls 16% 64%
Roxzone 40% 55%
Runs 28% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Sander
SkiErg 24% 14%
Sled push 20% 79%
Sled pull 29% 46%
Burpee broad jump 30% 63%
Row 28% 32%
Farmers carry 16% 57%
Sandbag lunges 39% 61%
Wall balls 16% 64%
Roxzone (moving) 40% 55%
Runs (8 km) 28% 33%

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

Paul · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:33:18
4:544:404:563:175:294:405:356:295:384:595:252:365:235:116:189:378:18
Sander · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men1:26:01
5:054:474:532:265:214:545:175:125:375:005:202:025:194:506:225:457:58
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.Paul · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 43:37 running, 41:29 at the stations and 8:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:37).Below, Sander · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men: 43:14 running, 34:55 at the stations and 7:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:45).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men Sander · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:54 5:05
SkiErg 4:40 4:47
Run 2 4:56 4:53
Sled push 3:17 2:26
Run 3 5:29 5:21
Sled pull 4:40 4:54
Run 4 5:35 5:17
Burpee broad jump 6:29 5:12
Run 5 5:38 5:37
Row 4:59 5:00
Run 6 5:25 5:20
Farmers carry 2:36 2:02
Run 7 5:23 5:19
Sandbag lunges 5:11 4:50
Run 8 6:18 6:22
Wall balls 9:37 5:45
Roxzone 8:18 7:58
Finish 1:33:18 1:26:01

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Sander Gap
Heerenveen 2026 Open Men · 17 May 2026 1:33:18 1:33:17 0:01 · Sander faster
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