Merlin vs Christoph

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Merlin Bittlinger

2:01:33 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
1761st of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

Christoph Hilgert

2:00:38 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2025
1127th of 1,171 place in that race · 1,171 Open Men finishers

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

Merlin: Cologne 2025, Open Men · Christoph: Stuttgart 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Merlin and Christoph sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Merlin: strongest on Row (faster than 51% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).Christoph: strongest on Pull (faster than 34% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).

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Part Merlin: faster than Christoph: faster than
Ski 23% 4%
Push 21% 10%
Pull 13% 34%
BBJ 39% 20%
Row 51% 2%
Carry 7% 6%
Lunges 19% 2%
Wall balls 1% 1%
Roxzone 1% 27%
Runs 15% 6%

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

Part by part

Part Merlin Christoph
SkiErg 23% 4%
Sled push 21% 10%
Sled pull 13% 34%
Burpee broad jump 39% 20%
Row 51% 2%
Farmers carry 7% 6%
Sandbag lunges 19% 2%
Wall balls 1% 1%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 27%
Runs (8 km) 15% 6%

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

Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men2:01:33
5:144:385:183:245:525:456:085:546:084:455:573:015:456:308:4017:4820:46
Christoph · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men2:00:38
6:215:085:383:436:115:146:166:596:425:406:103:076:179:587:2518:4911:08
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.Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 49:02 running, 51:45 at the stations and 20:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (17:48).Below, Christoph · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men: 51:00 running, 58:38 at the stations and 11:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (18:49).

See the numbers
Part Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men Christoph · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:14 6:21
SkiErg 4:38 5:08
Run 2 5:18 5:38
Sled push 3:24 3:43
Run 3 5:52 6:11
Sled pull 5:45 5:14
Run 4 6:08 6:16
Burpee broad jump 5:54 6:59
Run 5 6:08 6:42
Row 4:45 5:40
Run 6 5:57 6:10
Farmers carry 3:01 3:07
Run 7 5:45 6:17
Sandbag lunges 6:30 9:58
Run 8 8:40 7:25
Wall balls 17:48 18:49
Roxzone 20:46 11:08
Finish 2:01:33 2:00:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merlin Christoph Gap
Stuttgart 2025 Open Men · 1 Nov 2025 2:02:01 2:00:38 1:23 · Christoph faster
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