Sam vs Paolo

FRA FRA · Open Men · 1 result

Sam Bencherif

1:22:34 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
1526th of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers
ITA ITA · Open Men · 5 results

Paolo Semeraro

1:21:24 best Open Men time · Bologna 2026
864th of 1,805 place in that race · 1,805 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: Berlin 2025, Open Men · Paolo: Bologna 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Paolo sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Carry (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 4%).Paolo: strongest on Push (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 19%).

See the numbers
Part Sam: faster than Paolo: faster than
Ski 4% 19%
Push 55% 86%
Pull 26% 36%
BBJ 43% 57%
Row 12% 31%
Carry 85% 35%
Lunges 32% 56%
Wall balls 49% 46%
Roxzone 46% 51%
Runs 42% 51%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Paolo
SkiErg 4% 19%
Sled push 55% 86%
Sled pull 26% 36%
Burpee broad jump 43% 57%
Row 12% 31%
Farmers carry 85% 35%
Sandbag lunges 32% 56%
Wall balls 49% 46%
Roxzone (moving) 46% 51%
Runs (8 km) 42% 51%

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

Sam · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:22:34
4:044:584:222:464:264:564:165:354:325:104:381:384:345:366:276:098:36
Paolo · Bologna 2026 · Open Men1:21:24
4:464:524:462:274:554:444:594:504:544:584:462:224:414:575:126:406:43
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.Sam · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 37:19 running, 36:48 at the stations and 8:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:09).Below, Paolo · Bologna 2026 · Open Men: 38:59 running, 35:50 at the stations and 6:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:40).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Berlin 2025 · Open Men Paolo · Bologna 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:04 4:46
SkiErg 4:58 4:52
Run 2 4:22 4:46
Sled push 2:46 2:27
Run 3 4:26 4:55
Sled pull 4:56 4:44
Run 4 4:16 4:59
Burpee broad jump 5:35 4:50
Run 5 4:32 4:54
Row 5:10 4:58
Run 6 4:38 4:46
Farmers carry 1:38 2:22
Run 7 4:34 4:41
Sandbag lunges 5:36 4:57
Run 8 6:27 5:12
Wall balls 6:09 6:40
Roxzone 8:36 6:43
Finish 1:22:34 1:21:24

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Paolo Gap
Berlin 2025 Open Men · 16 May 2025 1:22:34 1:22:33 0:01 · Paolo faster
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