Thor vs Sipho

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Thor Ottesen

1:20:02 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
59th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 4 results

Sipho Lunga

1:09:32 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
22nd of 717 place in that race · 717 Open Men finishers

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

Thor: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men · Sipho: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Thor and Sipho sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Thor: strongest on Carry (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 70%).Sipho: strongest on BBJ (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 73%).

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Part Thor: faster than Sipho: faster than
Ski 77% 73%
Push 71% 81%
Pull 73% 88%
BBJ 84% 98%
Row 76% 77%
Carry 98% 78%
Lunges 98% 96%
Wall balls 98% 74%
Roxzone 70% 98%
Runs 88% 97%

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

Part by part

Part Thor Sipho
SkiErg 77% 73%
Sled push 71% 81%
Sled pull 73% 88%
Burpee broad jump 84% 98%
Row 76% 77%
Farmers carry 98% 78%
Sandbag lunges 98% 96%
Wall balls 98% 74%
Roxzone (moving) 70% 98%
Runs (8 km) 88% 97%

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

Thor · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:20:02
3:294:324:523:195:105:075:045:055:144:475:111:325:083:305:434:407:48
Sipho · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:09:32
3:304:194:282:364:364:064:223:134:214:464:231:574:313:404:506:253:36
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.Thor · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 39:51 running, 32:32 at the stations and 7:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (5:07).Below, Sipho · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 35:01 running, 31:03 at the stations and 3:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:25).

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Part Thor · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men Sipho · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:29 3:30
SkiErg 4:32 4:19
Run 2 4:52 4:28
Sled push 3:19 2:36
Run 3 5:10 4:36
Sled pull 5:07 4:06
Run 4 5:04 4:22
Burpee broad jump 5:05 3:13
Run 5 5:14 4:21
Row 4:47 4:46
Run 6 5:11 4:23
Farmers carry 1:32 1:57
Run 7 5:08 4:31
Sandbag lunges 3:30 3:40
Run 8 5:43 4:50
Wall balls 4:40 6:25
Roxzone 7:48 3:36
Finish 1:20:02 1:09:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Thor Sipho Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:20:02 1:20:02 level
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