Merlin vs Gianluca

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
SUI SUI · Open Men · 3 results

Gianluca Silletti

1:52:11 best Open Men time · St. Gallen 2025
917th of 988 place in that race · 988 Open Men finishers

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

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

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

This chart shows where Merlin and Gianluca 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%).Gianluca: strongest on Lunges (faster than 61% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).

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Part Merlin: faster than Gianluca: faster than
Ski 23% 28%
Push 21% 13%
Pull 13% 11%
BBJ 39% 11%
Row 51% 15%
Carry 7% 18%
Lunges 19% 61%
Wall balls 1% 13%
Roxzone 1% 0%
Runs 15% 2%

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

Part by part

Part Merlin Gianluca
SkiErg 23% 28%
Sled push 21% 13%
Sled pull 13% 11%
Burpee broad jump 39% 11%
Row 51% 15%
Farmers carry 7% 18%
Sandbag lunges 19% 61%
Wall balls 1% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 0%
Runs (8 km) 15% 2%

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
Gianluca · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men2:02:07
6:304:395:493:346:196:196:457:576:245:126:322:386:264:5110:5511:1820:06
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, Gianluca · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men: 55:40 running, 46:28 at the stations and 20:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:18).

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Part Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men Gianluca · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:14 6:30
SkiErg 4:38 4:39
Run 2 5:18 5:49
Sled push 3:24 3:34
Run 3 5:52 6:19
Sled pull 5:45 6:19
Run 4 6:08 6:45
Burpee broad jump 5:54 7:57
Run 5 6:08 6:24
Row 4:45 5:12
Run 6 5:57 6:32
Farmers carry 3:01 2:38
Run 7 5:45 6:26
Sandbag lunges 6:30 4:51
Run 8 8:40 10:55
Wall balls 17:48 11:18
Roxzone 20:46 20:06
Finish 2:01:33 2:02:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merlin Gianluca Gap
Stuttgart 2025 Open Men · 1 Nov 2025 2:02:01 2:02:07 0:06 · Merlin faster
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