Mark vs Ben

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Mark Dowley

1:18:17 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
939th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 6 results

Ben Curley

1:17:58 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2024
134th of 595 place in that race · 595 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Ben: Brisbane 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and Ben sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on Carry (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 15%).Ben: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 30%).

See the numbers
Part Mark: faster than Ben: faster than
Ski 15% 53%
Push 30% 30%
Pull 57% 68%
BBJ 76% 71%
Row 64% 71%
Carry 96% 88%
Lunges 61% 78%
Wall balls 72% 93%
Roxzone 81% 73%
Runs 59% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Mark Ben
SkiErg 15% 53%
Sled push 30% 30%
Sled pull 57% 68%
Burpee broad jump 76% 71%
Row 64% 71%
Farmers carry 96% 88%
Sandbag lunges 61% 78%
Wall balls 72% 93%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 73%
Runs (8 km) 59% 72%

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

Mark · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:18:17
2:554:514:413:044:464:364:534:224:514:394:421:314:504:565:375:327:40
Ben · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men1:17:58
3:114:184:433:035:054:285:254:545:004:335:121:515:274:395:534:405:41
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.Mark · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 37:15 running, 33:31 at the stations and 7:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:32).Below, Ben · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men: 39:56 running, 32:26 at the stations and 5:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (4:54).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Ben · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 2:55 3:11
SkiErg 4:51 4:18
Run 2 4:41 4:43
Sled push 3:04 3:03
Run 3 4:46 5:05
Sled pull 4:36 4:28
Run 4 4:53 5:25
Burpee broad jump 4:22 4:54
Run 5 4:51 5:00
Row 4:39 4:33
Run 6 4:42 5:12
Farmers carry 1:31 1:51
Run 7 4:50 5:27
Sandbag lunges 4:56 4:39
Run 8 5:37 5:53
Wall balls 5:32 4:40
Roxzone 7:40 5:41
Finish 1:18:17 1:17:58

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark Ben Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:18:17 1:18:16 0:01 · Ben faster
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