Helen vs Michelle

GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Helen Nicol

1:57:00 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
2609th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 11 results

Michelle Briggs

1:56:49 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
2607th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers

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

Helen: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women · Michelle: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Helen and Michelle sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Helen: strongest on Ski (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 7%).Michelle: strongest on Carry (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 9%).

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Part Helen: faster than Michelle: faster than
Ski 44% 24%
Push 18% 11%
Pull 17% 30%
BBJ 7% 14%
Row 14% 34%
Carry 20% 44%
Lunges 10% 10%
Wall balls 13% 9%
Roxzone 14% 12%
Runs 11% 9%

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

Part by part

Part Helen Michelle
SkiErg 44% 24%
Sled push 18% 11%
Sled pull 17% 30%
Burpee broad jump 7% 14%
Row 14% 34%
Farmers carry 20% 44%
Sandbag lunges 10% 10%
Wall balls 13% 9%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 12%
Runs (8 km) 11% 9%

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

Helen · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:57:00
4:365:375:163:215:296:575:4111:105:416:125:482:415:507:228:2510:2616:37
Michelle · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:56:49
4:245:525:323:365:376:145:529:295:565:465:522:155:577:258:4611:2117:03
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.Helen · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 46:46 running, 53:46 at the stations and 16:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (11:10).Below, Michelle · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 47:56 running, 51:58 at the stations and 17:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:21).

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Part Helen · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women Michelle · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 4:36 4:24
SkiErg 5:37 5:52
Run 2 5:16 5:32
Sled push 3:21 3:36
Run 3 5:29 5:37
Sled pull 6:57 6:14
Run 4 5:41 5:52
Burpee broad jump 11:10 9:29
Run 5 5:41 5:56
Row 6:12 5:46
Run 6 5:48 5:52
Farmers carry 2:41 2:15
Run 7 5:50 5:57
Sandbag lunges 7:22 7:25
Run 8 8:25 8:46
Wall balls 10:26 11:21
Roxzone 16:37 17:03
Finish 1:57:00 1:56:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Helen Michelle Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Women · 4 Dec 2025 1:57:00 1:56:49 0:11 · Michelle faster
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