Nikolai vs Ed

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Nikolai Eroshenko

2:21:39 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
1846th of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Ed Zhang

2:21:31 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
1844th of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers

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

Nikolai: Boston 2026, Open Men · Ed: Boston 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nikolai and Ed sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nikolai: strongest on Pull (faster than 41% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 2%).Ed: strongest on Push (faster than 49% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 1%).

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Part Nikolai: faster than Ed: faster than
Ski 15% 4%
Push 33% 49%
Pull 41% 6%
BBJ 6% 3%
Row 3% 1%
Carry 15% 37%
Lunges 9% 2%
Wall balls 3% 4%
Roxzone 5% 3%
Runs 2% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Nikolai Ed
SkiErg 15% 4%
Sled push 33% 49%
Sled pull 41% 6%
Burpee broad jump 6% 3%
Row 3% 1%
Farmers carry 15% 37%
Sandbag lunges 9% 2%
Wall balls 3% 4%
Roxzone (moving) 5% 3%
Runs (8 km) 2% 4%

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

Nikolai · Boston 2026 · Open Men2:21:39
4:315:056:234:157:415:337:2610:378:456:118:272:568:288:3618:1016:0212:42
Ed · Boston 2026 · Open Men2:21:31
5:255:256:393:467:567:567:3912:138:266:297:572:259:1911:139:5815:2013:33
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.Nikolai · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 1:09:51 running, 59:14 at the stations and 12:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:02).Below, Ed · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 1:03:19 running, 1:04:47 at the stations and 13:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:20).

See the numbers
Part Nikolai · Boston 2026 · Open Men Ed · Boston 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:31 5:25
SkiErg 5:05 5:25
Run 2 6:23 6:39
Sled push 4:15 3:46
Run 3 7:41 7:56
Sled pull 5:33 7:56
Run 4 7:26 7:39
Burpee broad jump 10:37 12:13
Run 5 8:45 8:26
Row 6:11 6:29
Run 6 8:27 7:57
Farmers carry 2:56 2:25
Run 7 8:28 9:19
Sandbag lunges 8:36 11:13
Run 8 18:10 9:58
Wall balls 16:02 15:20
Roxzone 12:42 13:33
Finish 2:21:39 2:21:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nikolai Ed Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 2:21:39 2:21:31 0:08 · Ed faster
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