Joan vs Shelby

ZIM ZIM · Open Women · 2 results

Joan Burumu

1:46:53 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2025
254th of 431 place in that race · 431 Open Women finishers
RSA RSA · Open Women · 1 result

Shelby Bruce

1:56:51 best Open Women time · Johannesburg 2025
281st of 550 place in that race · 550 Open Women finishers

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

Joan: Cape Town 2025, Open Women · Shelby: Johannesburg 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Joan and Shelby sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joan: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 59% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 13%).Shelby: strongest on Row (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 27%).

See the numbers
Part Joan: faster than Shelby: faster than
Ski 16% 49%
Push 18% 50%
Pull 29% 56%
BBJ 47% 46%
Row 27% 89%
Carry 13% 52%
Lunges 24% 27%
Wall balls 53% 30%
Roxzone 59% 27%
Runs 42% 62%

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

Part by part

Part Joan Shelby
SkiErg 16% 49%
Sled push 18% 50%
Sled pull 29% 56%
Burpee broad jump 47% 46%
Row 27% 89%
Farmers carry 13% 52%
Sandbag lunges 24% 27%
Wall balls 53% 30%
Roxzone (moving) 59% 27%
Runs (8 km) 42% 62%

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

Joan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women1:46:53
3:415:486:263:417:077:226:457:266:556:097:042:587:056:407:547:066:54
Shelby · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Women1:56:51
4:455:515:573:426:346:426:179:057:395:177:122:296:437:008:4110:2712:37
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.Joan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women: 52:57 running, 47:10 at the stations and 6:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:26).Below, Shelby · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Women: 53:48 running, 50:32 at the stations and 12:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:27).

See the numbers
Part Joan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women Shelby · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 3:41 4:45
SkiErg 5:48 5:51
Run 2 6:26 5:57
Sled push 3:41 3:42
Run 3 7:07 6:34
Sled pull 7:22 6:42
Run 4 6:45 6:17
Burpee broad jump 7:26 9:05
Run 5 6:55 7:39
Row 6:09 5:17
Run 6 7:04 7:12
Farmers carry 2:58 2:29
Run 7 7:05 6:43
Sandbag lunges 6:40 7:00
Run 8 7:54 8:41
Wall balls 7:06 10:27
Roxzone 6:54 12:37
Finish 1:46:53 1:56:51

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joan Shelby Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Women · 29 Nov 2025 1:57:00 1:56:51 0:09 · Shelby faster
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