Samuel vs Zaakir

KEN KEN · Open Men · 1 result

Samuel Ngotho

1:25:51 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
234th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 4 results

Zaakir Bhikha

1:25:54 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
235th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Samuel: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Zaakir: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Samuel and Zaakir sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Samuel: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 17%).Zaakir: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 21%).

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Part Samuel: faster than Zaakir: faster than
Ski 55% 28%
Push 25% 28%
Pull 26% 64%
BBJ 63% 63%
Row 32% 44%
Carry 17% 21%
Lunges 40% 68%
Wall balls 87% 43%
Roxzone 54% 90%
Runs 84% 77%

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

Part by part

Part Samuel Zaakir
SkiErg 55% 28%
Sled push 25% 28%
Sled pull 26% 64%
Burpee broad jump 63% 63%
Row 32% 44%
Farmers carry 17% 21%
Sandbag lunges 40% 68%
Wall balls 87% 43%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 90%
Runs (8 km) 84% 77%

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

Samuel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:25:51
5:064:254:413:444:506:254:435:255:035:204:422:474:495:565:285:257:10
Zaakir · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:25:54
3:174:415:003:385:284:485:225:255:225:075:212:405:214:575:538:365:06
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.Samuel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 39:22 running, 39:27 at the stations and 7:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:25).Below, Zaakir · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 41:04 running, 39:52 at the stations and 5:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:36).

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Part Samuel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Zaakir · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:06 3:17
SkiErg 4:25 4:41
Run 2 4:41 5:00
Sled push 3:44 3:38
Run 3 4:50 5:28
Sled pull 6:25 4:48
Run 4 4:43 5:22
Burpee broad jump 5:25 5:25
Run 5 5:03 5:22
Row 5:20 5:07
Run 6 4:42 5:21
Farmers carry 2:47 2:40
Run 7 4:49 5:21
Sandbag lunges 5:56 4:57
Run 8 5:28 5:53
Wall balls 5:25 8:36
Roxzone 7:10 5:06
Finish 1:25:51 1:25:54

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Samuel Zaakir Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:25:51 1:25:54 0:03 · Samuel faster
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