Alex vs Jacques

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Alex Biaya

1:23:02 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2024
91st of 247 place in that race · 247 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Jacques Volkwyn

1:43:48 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
500th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Alex: Cape Town 2024, Open Men · Jacques: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alex and Jacques sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alex: strongest on BBJ (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 15%).Jacques: strongest on Lunges (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 8%).

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Part Alex: faster than Jacques: faster than
Ski 39% 60%
Push 35% 55%
Pull 26% 58%
BBJ 86% 35%
Row 28% 18%
Carry 33% 60%
Lunges 67% 65%
Wall balls 15% 47%
Roxzone 59% 8%
Runs 83% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Alex Jacques
SkiErg 39% 60%
Sled push 35% 55%
Sled pull 26% 58%
Burpee broad jump 86% 35%
Row 28% 18%
Farmers carry 33% 60%
Sandbag lunges 67% 65%
Wall balls 15% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 59% 8%
Runs (8 km) 83% 34%

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

Alex · Cape Town 2024 · Open Men1:23:02
4:074:244:372:185:125:274:414:125:265:104:362:264:404:455:299:006:41
Jacques · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:43:48
4:014:225:542:596:435:036:416:536:485:406:512:036:195:038:118:1212:13
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.Alex · Cape Town 2024 · Open Men: 38:48 running, 37:42 at the stations and 6:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:00) and the shortest the sled push (2:18).Below, Jacques · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 51:28 running, 40:15 at the stations and 12:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:12).

See the numbers
Part Alex · Cape Town 2024 · Open Men Jacques · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:07 4:01
SkiErg 4:24 4:22
Run 2 4:37 5:54
Sled push 2:18 2:59
Run 3 5:12 6:43
Sled pull 5:27 5:03
Run 4 4:41 6:41
Burpee broad jump 4:12 6:53
Run 5 5:26 6:48
Row 5:10 5:40
Run 6 4:36 6:51
Farmers carry 2:26 2:03
Run 7 4:40 6:19
Sandbag lunges 4:45 5:03
Run 8 5:29 8:11
Wall balls 9:00 8:12
Roxzone 6:41 12:13
Finish 1:23:02 1:43:48

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alex Jacques Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:43:46 1:43:48 0:02 · Alex faster
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