Paul vs James

AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

Paul Scells

1:28:47 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
1438th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

James Wu

1:23:47 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
1492nd of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Sydney 2025, Open Men · James: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Row (faster than 62% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 10%).James: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 25%).

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Part Paul: faster than James: faster than
Ski 26% 44%
Push 31% 46%
Pull 39% 61%
BBJ 27% 83%
Row 62% 38%
Carry 34% 70%
Lunges 34% 85%
Wall balls 10% 93%
Roxzone 54% 25%
Runs 40% 35%

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

Part by part

Part Paul James
SkiErg 26% 44%
Sled push 31% 46%
Sled pull 39% 61%
Burpee broad jump 27% 83%
Row 62% 38%
Farmers carry 34% 70%
Sandbag lunges 34% 85%
Wall balls 10% 93%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 25%
Runs (8 km) 40% 35%

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 · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:28:47
4:114:324:162:344:434:504:406:254:464:344:552:224:505:537:189:538:15
James · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:23:47
4:084:294:232:404:344:114:374:254:484:526:411:515:484:147:264:3710:12
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 · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 39:40 running, 41:03 at the stations and 8:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:53).Below, James · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 42:25 running, 31:19 at the stations and 10:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:52).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Sydney 2025 · Open Men James · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:11 4:08
SkiErg 4:32 4:29
Run 2 4:16 4:23
Sled push 2:34 2:40
Run 3 4:43 4:34
Sled pull 4:50 4:11
Run 4 4:40 4:37
Burpee broad jump 6:25 4:25
Run 5 4:46 4:48
Row 4:34 4:52
Run 6 4:55 6:41
Farmers carry 2:22 1:51
Run 7 4:50 5:48
Sandbag lunges 5:53 4:14
Run 8 7:18 7:26
Wall balls 9:53 4:37
Roxzone 8:15 10:12
Finish 1:28:47 1:23:47

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul James Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:32:12 1:32:13 0:01 · Paul faster
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