Matt vs Yousef

USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Matt Palumbo

2:11:07 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
1544th of 1,622 place in that race · 1,622 Open Men finishers
PLE PLE · Open Men · 2 results

Yousef Alsaleh

1:42:08 best Open Men time · Dallas 2024
649th of 929 place in that race · 929 Open Men finishers

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

Matt: Chicago 2025, Open Men · Yousef: Dallas 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matt and Yousef sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matt: strongest on Ski (faster than 39% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 4%).Yousef: strongest on Push (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 12%).

See the numbers
Part Matt: faster than Yousef: faster than
Ski 39% 45%
Push 25% 63%
Pull 8% 30%
BBJ 5% 25%
Row 5% 12%
Carry 32% 38%
Lunges 6% 53%
Wall balls 15% 37%
Roxzone 8% 28%
Runs 4% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Matt Yousef
SkiErg 39% 45%
Sled push 25% 63%
Sled pull 8% 30%
Burpee broad jump 5% 25%
Row 5% 12%
Farmers carry 32% 38%
Sandbag lunges 6% 53%
Wall balls 15% 37%
Roxzone (moving) 8% 28%
Runs (8 km) 4% 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

Matt · Chicago 2025 · Open Men2:11:07
4:594:356:443:038:057:278:1210:499:045:559:182:228:418:4610:5711:1711:02
Yousef · Dallas 2024 · Open Men1:42:08
5:534:385:272:545:435:516:276:437:165:417:102:156:595:097:296:549:47
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.Matt · Chicago 2025 · Open Men: 1:05:59 running, 54:14 at the stations and 11:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:17).Below, Yousef · Dallas 2024 · Open Men: 52:24 running, 40:05 at the stations and 9:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:54).

See the numbers
Part Matt · Chicago 2025 · Open Men Yousef · Dallas 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:59 5:53
SkiErg 4:35 4:38
Run 2 6:44 5:27
Sled push 3:03 2:54
Run 3 8:05 5:43
Sled pull 7:27 5:51
Run 4 8:12 6:27
Burpee broad jump 10:49 6:43
Run 5 9:04 7:16
Row 5:55 5:41
Run 6 9:18 7:10
Farmers carry 2:22 2:15
Run 7 8:41 6:59
Sandbag lunges 8:46 5:09
Run 8 10:57 7:29
Wall balls 11:17 6:54
Roxzone 11:02 9:47
Finish 2:11:07 1:42:08

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matt Yousef Gap
Chicago 2025 Open Men · 14 Nov 2025 2:11:07 2:11:15 0:08 · Matt faster
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