Melf vs Kolja

GER GER · Open Men · 1 result

Melf Gerthsen

1:27:01 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
891st of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

Kolja Friedel

1:24:51 best Open Men time · Berlin 2026
1937th of 4,143 place in that race · 4,143 Open Men finishers

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

Melf: Hamburg 2025, Open Men · Kolja: Berlin 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Melf and Kolja sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melf: strongest on Carry (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 35%).Kolja: strongest on Row (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 27%).

See the numbers
Part Melf: faster than Kolja: faster than
Ski 70% 54%
Push 75% 37%
Pull 73% 53%
BBJ 41% 66%
Row 75% 77%
Carry 80% 35%
Lunges 56% 27%
Wall balls 69% 49%
Roxzone 52% 46%
Runs 35% 60%

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

Part by part

Part Melf Kolja
SkiErg 70% 54%
Sled push 75% 37%
Sled pull 73% 53%
Burpee broad jump 41% 66%
Row 75% 77%
Farmers carry 80% 35%
Sandbag lunges 56% 27%
Wall balls 69% 49%
Roxzone (moving) 52% 46%
Runs (8 km) 35% 60%

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

Melf · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men1:27:01
5:544:175:012:405:304:125:356:045:394:365:211:455:175:146:036:167:46
Kolja · Berlin 2026 · Open Men1:24:51
3:094:303:413:353:534:173:525:024:324:344:002:324:066:205:337:0514:18
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.Melf · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 44:20 running, 35:04 at the stations and 7:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:16).Below, Kolja · Berlin 2026 · Open Men: 32:46 running, 37:54 at the stations and 14:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:05).

See the numbers
Part Melf · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men Kolja · Berlin 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:54 3:09
SkiErg 4:17 4:30
Run 2 5:01 3:41
Sled push 2:40 3:35
Run 3 5:30 3:53
Sled pull 4:12 4:17
Run 4 5:35 3:52
Burpee broad jump 6:04 5:02
Run 5 5:39 4:32
Row 4:36 4:34
Run 6 5:21 4:00
Farmers carry 1:45 2:32
Run 7 5:17 4:06
Sandbag lunges 5:14 6:20
Run 8 6:03 5:33
Wall balls 6:16 7:05
Roxzone 7:46 14:18
Finish 1:27:01 1:24:51

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Melf Kolja Gap
Hamburg 2025 Open Men · 3 Oct 2025 1:27:01 1:27:01 level
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