Vishaal vs John

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Vishaal Patel

1:42:12 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
431st of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

John Henry van der Westhuizen

1:42:13 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
432nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Vishaal: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · John: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Vishaal and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Vishaal: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 15%).John: strongest on Push (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 26%).

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Part Vishaal: faster than John: faster than
Ski 32% 35%
Push 43% 65%
Pull 15% 65%
BBJ 20% 54%
Row 36% 65%
Carry 65% 38%
Lunges 36% 32%
Wall balls 72% 39%
Roxzone 15% 28%
Runs 37% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Vishaal John
SkiErg 32% 35%
Sled push 43% 65%
Sled pull 15% 65%
Burpee broad jump 20% 54%
Row 36% 65%
Farmers carry 65% 38%
Sandbag lunges 36% 32%
Wall balls 72% 39%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 28%
Runs (8 km) 37% 26%

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

Vishaal · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:42:12
4:144:435:353:016:306:296:318:096:365:096:242:126:246:417:386:189:48
John · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:42:13
5:074:416:532:397:054:306:576:016:454:476:252:345:456:568:278:318:17
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.Vishaal · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 49:52 running, 42:42 at the stations and 9:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:09).Below, John · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 53:24 running, 40:39 at the stations and 8:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:31).

See the numbers
Part Vishaal · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men John · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:14 5:07
SkiErg 4:43 4:41
Run 2 5:35 6:53
Sled push 3:01 2:39
Run 3 6:30 7:05
Sled pull 6:29 4:30
Run 4 6:31 6:57
Burpee broad jump 8:09 6:01
Run 5 6:36 6:45
Row 5:09 4:47
Run 6 6:24 6:25
Farmers carry 2:12 2:34
Run 7 6:24 5:45
Sandbag lunges 6:41 6:56
Run 8 7:38 8:27
Wall balls 6:18 8:31
Roxzone 9:48 8:17
Finish 1:42:12 1:42:13

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Vishaal John Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:42:12 1:42:13 0:01 · Vishaal faster
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