James vs Ben

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

James Thompson

1:13:34 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1281st of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Ben Swain

1:13:33 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1279th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Ben: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Ben sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Push (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 54%).Ben: strongest on Ski (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 48%).

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Part James: faster than Ben: faster than
Ski 90% 95%
Push 94% 48%
Pull 71% 88%
BBJ 82% 57%
Row 93% 69%
Carry 84% 82%
Lunges 84% 56%
Wall balls 92% 85%
Roxzone 71% 74%
Runs 54% 74%

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

Part by part

Part James Ben
SkiErg 90% 95%
Sled push 94% 48%
Sled pull 71% 88%
Burpee broad jump 82% 57%
Row 93% 69%
Farmers carry 84% 82%
Sandbag lunges 84% 56%
Wall balls 92% 85%
Roxzone (moving) 71% 74%
Runs (8 km) 54% 74%

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

James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:13:34
2:474:273:372:094:054:174:144:134:254:274:141:403:584:045:384:5110:36
Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:13:33
2:584:223:312:503:393:503:385:143:434:453:411:423:434:585:225:1910:25
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.James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 32:58 running, 30:08 at the stations and 10:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:51).Below, Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 30:16 running, 33:00 at the stations and 10:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:19).

See the numbers
Part James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Ben · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:47 2:58
SkiErg 4:27 4:22
Run 2 3:37 3:31
Sled push 2:09 2:50
Run 3 4:05 3:39
Sled pull 4:17 3:50
Run 4 4:14 3:38
Burpee broad jump 4:13 5:14
Run 5 4:25 3:43
Row 4:27 4:45
Run 6 4:14 3:41
Farmers carry 1:40 1:42
Run 7 3:58 3:43
Sandbag lunges 4:04 4:58
Run 8 5:38 5:22
Wall balls 4:51 5:19
Roxzone 10:36 10:25
Finish 1:13:34 1:13:33

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Ben Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:13:34 1:13:33 0:01 · Ben faster
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