Matthew vs Nicholas

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Matthew Gray

1:17:48 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
663rd of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 4 results

Nicholas Orpwood

1:18:32 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
962nd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Melbourne 2024, Open Men · Nicholas: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Nicholas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 35%).Nicholas: strongest on BBJ (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 23%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Nicholas: faster than
Ski 58% 76%
Push 35% 56%
Pull 40% 41%
BBJ 85% 89%
Row 66% 62%
Carry 59% 23%
Lunges 81% 86%
Wall balls 99% 72%
Roxzone 81% 69%
Runs 55% 55%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Nicholas
SkiErg 58% 76%
Sled push 35% 56%
Sled pull 40% 41%
Burpee broad jump 85% 89%
Row 66% 62%
Farmers carry 59% 23%
Sandbag lunges 81% 86%
Wall balls 99% 72%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 69%
Runs (8 km) 55% 55%

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

Matthew · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:17:48
4:484:184:552:305:045:095:104:035:154:415:162:035:114:245:223:116:38
Nicholas · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:18:32
2:474:154:222:344:415:055:163:495:434:404:422:334:504:025:345:328:16
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.Matthew · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 41:02 running, 30:19 at the stations and 6:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (5:09).Below, Nicholas · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 37:55 running, 32:30 at the stations and 8:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:32).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men Nicholas · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:48 2:47
SkiErg 4:18 4:15
Run 2 4:55 4:22
Sled push 2:30 2:34
Run 3 5:04 4:41
Sled pull 5:09 5:05
Run 4 5:10 5:16
Burpee broad jump 4:03 3:49
Run 5 5:15 5:43
Row 4:41 4:40
Run 6 5:16 4:42
Farmers carry 2:03 2:33
Run 7 5:11 4:50
Sandbag lunges 4:24 4:02
Run 8 5:22 5:34
Wall balls 3:11 5:32
Roxzone 6:38 8:16
Finish 1:17:48 1:18:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Nicholas Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:18:34 1:18:32 0:02 · Nicholas faster
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