Steven vs Brandon

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Steven Defontes

1:27:42 best Open Men time · Washington DC 2026
1103rd of 2,855 place in that race · 2,855 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 6 results

Brandon Paris

1:27:29 best Open Men time · Houston 2026
803rd of 2,230 place in that race · 2,230 Open Men finishers

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

Steven: Washington DC 2026, Open Men · Brandon: Houston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Steven and Brandon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Steven: strongest on Row (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 27%).Brandon: strongest on Pull (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 16%).

See the numbers
Part Steven: faster than Brandon: faster than
Ski 54% 16%
Push 57% 76%
Pull 63% 89%
BBJ 51% 44%
Row 84% 75%
Carry 51% 77%
Lunges 27% 24%
Wall balls 63% 37%
Roxzone 62% 88%
Runs 61% 65%

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

Part by part

Part Steven Brandon
SkiErg 54% 16%
Sled push 57% 76%
Sled pull 63% 89%
Burpee broad jump 51% 44%
Row 84% 75%
Farmers carry 51% 77%
Sandbag lunges 27% 24%
Wall balls 63% 37%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 88%
Runs (8 km) 61% 65%

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

Steven · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men1:27:42
3:374:425:033:015:524:395:265:565:164:385:292:075:276:524:557:007:50
Brandon · Houston 2026 · Open Men1:27:29
5:315:064:542:455:064:205:016:105:004:445:041:575:126:555:168:475:52
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.Steven · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men: 41:05 running, 38:55 at the stations and 7:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:00).Below, Brandon · Houston 2026 · Open Men: 41:05 running, 40:44 at the stations and 5:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:47).

See the numbers
Part Steven · Washington DC 2026 · Open Men Brandon · Houston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:37 5:31
SkiErg 4:42 5:06
Run 2 5:03 4:54
Sled push 3:01 2:45
Run 3 5:52 5:06
Sled pull 4:39 4:20
Run 4 5:26 5:01
Burpee broad jump 5:56 6:10
Run 5 5:16 5:00
Row 4:38 4:44
Run 6 5:29 5:04
Farmers carry 2:07 1:57
Run 7 5:27 5:12
Sandbag lunges 6:52 6:55
Run 8 4:55 5:16
Wall balls 7:00 8:47
Roxzone 7:50 5:52
Finish 1:27:42 1:27:29

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Steven Brandon Gap
Washington DC 2026 Open Men · 3 Sep 2026 1:27:42 1:27:43 0:01 · Steven faster
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