Nicholas vs Andisa

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 · 4 results

Andisa Gqobo

1:21:20 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
126th 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 · Andisa: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nicholas and Andisa 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%).Andisa: strongest on Lunges (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 43%).

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Part Nicholas: faster than Andisa: faster than
Ski 62% 87%
Push 35% 43%
Pull 69% 94%
BBJ 45% 69%
Row 82% 70%
Carry 48% 80%
Lunges 77% 96%
Wall balls 52% 93%
Roxzone 84% 79%
Runs 89% 68%

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

Part by part

Part Nicholas Andisa
SkiErg 62% 87%
Sled push 35% 43%
Sled pull 69% 94%
Burpee broad jump 45% 69%
Row 82% 70%
Farmers carry 48% 80%
Sandbag lunges 77% 96%
Wall balls 52% 93%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 79%
Runs (8 km) 89% 68%

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
Andisa · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:21:20
3:254:114:553:225:123:475:215:277:544:515:371:555:393:425:545:145:02
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, Andisa · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 43:58 running, 32:29 at the stations and 5:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:27).

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Part Nicholas · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Andisa · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:54 3:25
SkiErg 4:21 4:11
Run 2 4:35 4:55
Sled push 3:26 3:22
Run 3 5:01 5:12
Sled pull 4:39 3:47
Run 4 4:44 5:21
Burpee broad jump 6:14 5:27
Run 5 5:15 7:54
Row 4:39 4:51
Run 6 5:14 5:37
Farmers carry 2:11 1:55
Run 7 4:47 5:39
Sandbag lunges 4:38 3:42
Run 8 5:20 5:54
Wall balls 7:45 5:14
Roxzone 5:32 5:02
Finish 1:21:07 1:21:20

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nicholas Andisa Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:21:36 1:21:20 0:16 · Andisa faster
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