Gareth vs Ian

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Gareth Richardson

1:57:33 best Open Men time · London 2025
1833rd of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Ian Shapiro

1:40:31 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
2225th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers

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

Gareth: London 2025, Open Men · Ian: Birmingham 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Gareth and Ian sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gareth: strongest on Ski (faster than 39% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 2%).Ian: strongest on Carry (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 7%).

See the numbers
Part Gareth: faster than Ian: faster than
Ski 39% 65%
Push 17% 9%
Pull 5% 7%
BBJ 3% 15%
Row 14% 36%
Carry 9% 74%
Lunges 2% 45%
Wall balls 22% 21%
Roxzone 6% 8%
Runs 5% 25%

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

Part by part

Part Gareth Ian
SkiErg 39% 65%
Sled push 17% 9%
Sled pull 5% 7%
Burpee broad jump 3% 15%
Row 14% 36%
Farmers carry 9% 74%
Sandbag lunges 2% 45%
Wall balls 22% 21%
Roxzone (moving) 6% 8%
Runs (8 km) 5% 25%

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

Gareth · London 2025 · Open Men1:57:33
6:014:276:093:246:346:306:4110:276:515:106:493:086:5011:069:439:128:40
Ian · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:40:31
5:534:175:213:515:327:135:318:095:374:565:321:525:325:156:168:4511:07
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.Gareth · London 2025 · Open Men: 55:38 running, 53:24 at the stations and 8:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (11:06).Below, Ian · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 45:14 running, 44:18 at the stations and 11:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:45).

See the numbers
Part Gareth · London 2025 · Open Men Ian · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 6:01 5:53
SkiErg 4:27 4:17
Run 2 6:09 5:21
Sled push 3:24 3:51
Run 3 6:34 5:32
Sled pull 6:30 7:13
Run 4 6:41 5:31
Burpee broad jump 10:27 8:09
Run 5 6:51 5:37
Row 5:10 4:56
Run 6 6:49 5:32
Farmers carry 3:08 1:52
Run 7 6:50 5:32
Sandbag lunges 11:06 5:15
Run 8 9:43 6:16
Wall balls 9:12 8:45
Roxzone 8:40 11:07
Finish 1:57:33 1:40:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gareth Ian Gap
Glasgow 2026 Open Men · 11 Mar 2026 2:04:56 2:04:43 0:13 · Ian faster
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