James vs Sam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

James Goolnik

1:34:27 best Open Men time · London 2024
1675th of 2,324 place in that race · 2,324 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 9 results

Sam Carter

1:24:43 best Open Men time · Málaga 2025
874th of 1,501 place in that race · 1,501 Open Men finishers

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

James: London 2024, Open Men · Sam: Málaga 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Row (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 4%).Sam: strongest on Lunges (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 28%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 4% 35%
Push 11% 36%
Pull 24% 42%
BBJ 40% 32%
Row 46% 40%
Carry 29% 53%
Lunges 43% 70%
Wall balls 36% 47%
Roxzone 31% 28%
Runs 26% 40%

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

Part by part

Part James Sam
SkiErg 4% 35%
Sled push 11% 36%
Sled pull 24% 42%
Burpee broad jump 40% 32%
Row 46% 40%
Farmers carry 29% 53%
Sandbag lunges 43% 70%
Wall balls 36% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 31% 28%
Runs (8 km) 26% 40%

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 2024 · Open Men1:34:27
6:175:064:484:175:206:095:086:185:354:505:142:265:175:166:197:368:39
Sam · Málaga 2025 · Open Men1:24:43
4:224:304:393:205:024:455:195:555:305:005:252:035:234:275:506:037:19
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 2024 · Open Men: 43:57 running, 41:58 at the stations and 8:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:36).Below, Sam · Málaga 2025 · Open Men: 41:30 running, 36:03 at the stations and 7:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:03).

See the numbers
Part James · London 2024 · Open Men Sam · Málaga 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:17 4:22
SkiErg 5:06 4:30
Run 2 4:48 4:39
Sled push 4:17 3:20
Run 3 5:20 5:02
Sled pull 6:09 4:45
Run 4 5:08 5:19
Burpee broad jump 6:18 5:55
Run 5 5:35 5:30
Row 4:50 5:00
Run 6 5:14 5:25
Farmers carry 2:26 2:03
Run 7 5:17 5:23
Sandbag lunges 5:16 4:27
Run 8 6:19 5:50
Wall balls 7:36 6:03
Roxzone 8:39 7:19
Finish 1:34:27 1:24:43

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Sam Gap
London 2024 Open Men · 1 Dec 2024 1:34:27 1:34:28 0:01 · James faster
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