Marcel vs Michael

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Marcel Black

1:56:11 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2024
714th of 770 place in that race · 770 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Pro Men · 6 results

Michael Kist

1:42:23 best Open Men time · Karlsruhe 2025
956th of 1,207 place in that race · 1,207 Open Men finishers

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

Marcel: Stuttgart 2024, Open Men · Michael: Karlsruhe 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Marcel and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Marcel: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 1%).Michael: strongest on BBJ (faster than 30% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 11%).

See the numbers
Part Marcel: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 28% 11%
Push 56% 23%
Pull 15% 26%
BBJ 1% 30%
Row 26% 24%
Carry 75% 22%
Lunges 4% 27%
Wall balls 3% 24%
Roxzone 15% 23%
Runs 14% 20%

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

Part by part

Part Marcel Michael
SkiErg 28% 11%
Sled push 56% 23%
Sled pull 15% 26%
Burpee broad jump 1% 30%
Row 26% 24%
Farmers carry 75% 22%
Sandbag lunges 4% 27%
Wall balls 3% 24%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 23%
Runs (8 km) 14% 20%

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

Marcel · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men1:56:11
5:304:435:382:425:457:146:1211:326:245:046:111:486:129:328:1313:2110:17
Michael · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men1:42:23
4:164:536:183:157:015:566:536:346:565:056:442:236:405:587:537:547:52
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.Marcel · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men: 50:05 running, 55:56 at the stations and 10:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:21).Below, Michael · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men: 52:41 running, 41:58 at the stations and 7:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:54).

See the numbers
Part Marcel · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men Michael · Karlsruhe 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:30 4:16
SkiErg 4:43 4:53
Run 2 5:38 6:18
Sled push 2:42 3:15
Run 3 5:45 7:01
Sled pull 7:14 5:56
Run 4 6:12 6:53
Burpee broad jump 11:32 6:34
Run 5 6:24 6:56
Row 5:04 5:05
Run 6 6:11 6:44
Farmers carry 1:48 2:23
Run 7 6:12 6:40
Sandbag lunges 9:32 5:58
Run 8 8:13 7:53
Wall balls 13:21 7:54
Roxzone 10:17 7:52
Finish 1:56:11 1:42:23

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Marcel Michael Gap
Stuttgart 2024 Open Men · 28 Sep 2024 1:56:11 1:56:15 0:04 · Marcel faster
The RoxHype app

Close the gap at your next race.

The RoxHype app is your training plan to race day: built from your splits, your kit and your race date, and adjusted every week.

  • A week-by-week plan that counts down to your race
  • Extra work on your slowest stations
  • Adjusts every week to what you actually did

Free to download. Used by more than 40,000 HYROX athletes.

RoxHype app home: days to your HYROX, your expected finish range and this week's sessions RoxHype workout player guiding a sled push, with the next exercise lined up