Oliver vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Oliver Hickson

2:17:48 best Open Men time · London 2025
1895th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 15 results

James Scales

1:58:31 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5316th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Oliver: London 2025, Open Men · James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Oliver and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Oliver: strongest on Ski (faster than 16% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 0%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 25% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 1%).

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Part Oliver: faster than James: faster than
Ski 16% 2%
Push 7% 25%
Pull 4% 23%
BBJ 0% 11%
Row 16% 3%
Carry 0% 13%
Lunges 1% 19%
Wall balls 0% 18%
Roxzone 14% 3%
Runs 4% 1%

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

Part by part

Part Oliver James
SkiErg 16% 2%
Sled push 7% 25%
Sled pull 4% 23%
Burpee broad jump 0% 11%
Row 16% 3%
Farmers carry 0% 13%
Sandbag lunges 1% 19%
Wall balls 0% 18%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 3%
Runs (8 km) 4% 1%

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

Oliver · London 2025 · Open Men2:17:48
6:154:436:073:586:196:506:5413:526:495:076:495:016:4113:209:4622:027:21
James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:58:31
4:315:466:013:136:085:416:188:196:165:566:352:456:466:429:2910:2617:47
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.Oliver · London 2025 · Open Men: 55:41 running, 1:14:53 at the stations and 7:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (22:02) and the shortest the sled push (3:58).Below, James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 52:04 running, 48:48 at the stations and 17:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:26).

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Part Oliver · London 2025 · Open Men James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:15 4:31
SkiErg 4:43 5:46
Run 2 6:07 6:01
Sled push 3:58 3:13
Run 3 6:19 6:08
Sled pull 6:50 5:41
Run 4 6:54 6:18
Burpee broad jump 13:52 8:19
Run 5 6:49 6:16
Row 5:07 5:56
Run 6 6:49 6:35
Farmers carry 5:01 2:45
Run 7 6:41 6:46
Sandbag lunges 13:20 6:42
Run 8 9:46 9:29
Wall balls 22:02 10:26
Roxzone 7:21 17:47
Finish 2:17:48 1:58:31

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Oliver James Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Doubles Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:33:37 1:27:28 6:09 · James faster
London 2025 Open Men · 3 May 2025 2:17:48 2:17:12 0:36 · James faster
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