Jay vs Michael

AUS AUS · Open Men · 5 results

Jay Orlovsky

1:13:53 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
596th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Nicholas

1:18:00 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2026
263rd of 852 place in that race · 852 Open Men finishers

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

Jay: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Michael: Brisbane 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Jay and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Jay: strongest on Runs (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 30%).Michael: strongest on Push (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 23%).

See the numbers
Part Jay: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 38% 23%
Push 35% 80%
Pull 36% 34%
BBJ 77% 55%
Row 30% 58%
Carry 52% 52%
Lunges 51% 67%
Wall balls 73% 36%
Roxzone 83% 77%
Runs 90% 80%

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

Part by part

Part Jay Michael
SkiErg 38% 23%
Sled push 35% 80%
Sled pull 36% 34%
Burpee broad jump 77% 55%
Row 30% 58%
Farmers carry 52% 52%
Sandbag lunges 51% 67%
Wall balls 73% 36%
Roxzone (moving) 83% 77%
Runs (8 km) 90% 80%

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

Jay · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:13:53
2:134:333:412:563:595:134:084:194:245:014:092:044:185:154:485:297:33
Michael · Brisbane 2026 · Open Men1:18:00
3:474:394:182:364:245:154:325:204:404:404:322:044:304:274:217:446:17
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.Jay · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 31:40 running, 34:50 at the stations and 7:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:29).Below, Michael · Brisbane 2026 · Open Men: 35:04 running, 36:45 at the stations and 6:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:44).

See the numbers
Part Jay · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Michael · Brisbane 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:13 3:47
SkiErg 4:33 4:39
Run 2 3:41 4:18
Sled push 2:56 2:36
Run 3 3:59 4:24
Sled pull 5:13 5:15
Run 4 4:08 4:32
Burpee broad jump 4:19 5:20
Run 5 4:24 4:40
Row 5:01 4:40
Run 6 4:09 4:32
Farmers carry 2:04 2:04
Run 7 4:18 4:30
Sandbag lunges 5:15 4:27
Run 8 4:48 4:21
Wall balls 5:29 7:44
Roxzone 7:33 6:17
Finish 1:13:53 1:18:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Jay Michael Gap
Brisbane 2026 Open Men · 9 Apr 2026 1:17:55 1:18:00 0:05 · Jay faster
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