Nicholas vs Craig

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Nicholas Hughes

1:21:07 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
153rd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Craig Stewart

1:21:37 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
129th of 717 place in that race · 717 Open Men finishers

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

Nicholas: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Craig: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nicholas and Craig sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nicholas: strongest on Runs (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 35%).Craig: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 28%).

See the numbers
Part Nicholas: faster than Craig: faster than
Ski 62% 82%
Push 35% 59%
Pull 69% 65%
BBJ 45% 74%
Row 82% 75%
Carry 48% 28%
Lunges 77% 77%
Wall balls 52% 81%
Roxzone 84% 92%
Runs 89% 78%

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

Part by part

Part Nicholas Craig
SkiErg 62% 82%
Sled push 35% 59%
Sled pull 69% 65%
Burpee broad jump 45% 74%
Row 82% 75%
Farmers carry 48% 28%
Sandbag lunges 77% 77%
Wall balls 52% 81%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 92%
Runs (8 km) 89% 78%

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

Nicholas · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:21:07
2:544:214:353:265:014:394:446:145:154:395:142:114:474:385:207:455:32
Craig · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:21:37
5:194:145:103:015:144:555:155:135:194:475:122:425:124:415:226:004:08
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.Nicholas · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 37:49 running, 37:52 at the stations and 5:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:45).Below, Craig · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 42:04 running, 35:33 at the stations and 4:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:00).

See the numbers
Part Nicholas · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Craig · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:54 5:19
SkiErg 4:21 4:14
Run 2 4:35 5:10
Sled push 3:26 3:01
Run 3 5:01 5:14
Sled pull 4:39 4:55
Run 4 4:44 5:15
Burpee broad jump 6:14 5:13
Run 5 5:15 5:19
Row 4:39 4:47
Run 6 5:14 5:12
Farmers carry 2:11 2:42
Run 7 4:47 5:12
Sandbag lunges 4:38 4:41
Run 8 5:20 5:22
Wall balls 7:45 6:00
Roxzone 5:32 4:08
Finish 1:21:07 1:21:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nicholas Craig Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:21:36 1:21:37 0:01 · Nicholas faster
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