James vs Francis

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

James Phipps

1:27:00 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3365th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Francis McKernqn

1:27:01 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3367th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

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

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

This chart shows where James and Francis sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Carry (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 19%).Francis: strongest on Lunges (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 13%).

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Part James: faster than Francis: faster than
Ski 54% 13%
Push 19% 51%
Pull 61% 81%
BBJ 23% 71%
Row 57% 25%
Carry 70% 58%
Lunges 55% 89%
Wall balls 31% 51%
Roxzone 38% 31%
Runs 41% 18%

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

Part by part

Part James Francis
SkiErg 54% 13%
Sled push 19% 51%
Sled pull 61% 81%
Burpee broad jump 23% 71%
Row 57% 25%
Farmers carry 70% 58%
Sandbag lunges 55% 89%
Wall balls 31% 51%
Roxzone (moving) 38% 31%
Runs (8 km) 41% 18%

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

James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:27:00
3:244:483:533:224:004:304:047:004:244:524:161:504:254:596:118:4512:26
Francis · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:27:01
3:565:174:182:484:314:014:364:425:105:144:471:584:513:516:577:1712:57
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.James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 34:37 running, 40:06 at the stations and 12:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:45).Below, Francis · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 39:06 running, 35:08 at the stations and 12:57 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:17).

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Part James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Francis · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:24 3:56
SkiErg 4:48 5:17
Run 2 3:53 4:18
Sled push 3:22 2:48
Run 3 4:00 4:31
Sled pull 4:30 4:01
Run 4 4:04 4:36
Burpee broad jump 7:00 4:42
Run 5 4:24 5:10
Row 4:52 5:14
Run 6 4:16 4:47
Farmers carry 1:50 1:58
Run 7 4:25 4:51
Sandbag lunges 4:59 3:51
Run 8 6:11 6:57
Wall balls 8:45 7:17
Roxzone 12:26 12:57
Finish 1:27:00 1:27:01

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Francis Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:27:00 1:27:01 0:01 · James faster
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