Russ vs Malakai

NZL NZL · Open Men · 1 result

Russ Lightfoot

1:38:24 best Open Men time · Auckland 2025
555th of 848 place in that race · 848 Open Men finishers
NZL NZL · Open Men · 1 result

Malakai Otutaha

1:38:21 best Open Men time · Auckland 2025
554th of 848 place in that race · 848 Open Men finishers

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

Russ: Auckland 2025, Open Men · Malakai: Auckland 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Russ and Malakai sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Russ: strongest on BBJ (faster than 58% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 11%).Malakai: strongest on Lunges (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 7%).

See the numbers
Part Russ: faster than Malakai: faster than
Ski 11% 7%
Push 56% 20%
Pull 53% 35%
BBJ 58% 60%
Row 56% 11%
Carry 42% 50%
Lunges 39% 79%
Wall balls 50% 60%
Roxzone 31% 17%
Runs 23% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Russ Malakai
SkiErg 11% 7%
Sled push 56% 20%
Sled pull 53% 35%
Burpee broad jump 58% 60%
Row 56% 11%
Farmers carry 42% 50%
Sandbag lunges 39% 79%
Wall balls 50% 60%
Roxzone (moving) 31% 17%
Runs (8 km) 23% 26%

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

Russ · Auckland 2025 · Open Men1:38:24
6:294:435:482:426:035:046:405:496:434:526:192:156:476:066:316:588:35
Malakai · Auckland 2025 · Open Men1:38:21
5:464:505:233:326:245:466:405:426:565:316:142:106:024:326:516:249:38
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.Russ · Auckland 2025 · Open Men: 51:20 running, 38:30 at the stations and 8:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:58).Below, Malakai · Auckland 2025 · Open Men: 50:16 running, 38:27 at the stations and 9:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:24).

See the numbers
Part Russ · Auckland 2025 · Open Men Malakai · Auckland 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:29 5:46
SkiErg 4:43 4:50
Run 2 5:48 5:23
Sled push 2:42 3:32
Run 3 6:03 6:24
Sled pull 5:04 5:46
Run 4 6:40 6:40
Burpee broad jump 5:49 5:42
Run 5 6:43 6:56
Row 4:52 5:31
Run 6 6:19 6:14
Farmers carry 2:15 2:10
Run 7 6:47 6:02
Sandbag lunges 6:06 4:32
Run 8 6:31 6:51
Wall balls 6:58 6:24
Roxzone 8:35 9:38
Finish 1:38:24 1:38:21

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Russ Malakai Gap
Auckland 2025 Open Men · 1 Feb 2025 1:38:24 1:38:21 0:03 · Malakai faster
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