Nicholas vs Deen

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 · 6 results

Deen Woodman

1:21:30 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
127th 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 · Deen: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men

Not the same division. Nicholas's race here is Open Men and Deen's is Pro Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

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

This chart shows where Nicholas and Deen 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%).Deen: strongest on Pull (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 35%).

See the numbers
Part Nicholas: faster than Deen: faster than
Ski 62% 67%
Push 35% 35%
Pull 69% 72%
BBJ 45% 42%
Row 82% 69%
Carry 48% 63%
Lunges 77% 37%
Wall balls 52% 70%
Roxzone 84% 62%
Runs 89% 56%

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

Part by part

Part Nicholas Deen
SkiErg 62% 67%
Sled push 35% 35%
Sled pull 69% 72%
Burpee broad jump 45% 42%
Row 82% 69%
Farmers carry 48% 63%
Sandbag lunges 77% 37%
Wall balls 52% 70%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 62%
Runs (8 km) 89% 56%

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
Deen · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:17:02
2:534:064:433:435:164:274:594:385:004:204:562:015:115:334:596:034:24
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, Deen · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 37:56 running, 34:51 at the stations and 4:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:03).

See the numbers
Part Nicholas · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Deen · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men
Run 1 2:54 2:53
SkiErg 4:21 4:06
Run 2 4:35 4:43
Sled push 3:26 3:43
Run 3 5:01 5:16
Sled pull 4:39 4:27
Run 4 4:44 4:59
Burpee broad jump 6:14 4:38
Run 5 5:15 5:00
Row 4:39 4:20
Run 6 5:14 4:56
Farmers carry 2:11 2:01
Run 7 4:47 5:11
Sandbag lunges 4:38 5:33
Run 8 5:20 4:59
Wall balls 7:45 6:03
Roxzone 5:32 4:24
Finish 1:21:07 1:17:02

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nicholas Deen Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:21:36 1:21:30 0:06 · Deen faster
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