Simon vs Thomas

NZL NZL · Open Men · 6 results

Simon Carwell-Cooke

1:15:59 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
685th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Thomas Bessell

1:16:17 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
843rd of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: Sydney 2025, Open Men · Thomas: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and Thomas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Ski (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 43%).Thomas: strongest on Push (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 57%).

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Part Simon: faster than Thomas: faster than
Ski 94% 93%
Push 46% 96%
Pull 79% 69%
BBJ 73% 87%
Row 66% 83%
Carry 70% 73%
Lunges 73% 86%
Wall balls 84% 83%
Roxzone 43% 57%
Runs 59% 58%

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

Part by part

Part Simon Thomas
SkiErg 94% 93%
Sled push 46% 96%
Sled pull 79% 69%
Burpee broad jump 73% 87%
Row 66% 83%
Farmers carry 70% 73%
Sandbag lunges 73% 86%
Wall balls 84% 83%
Roxzone (moving) 43% 57%
Runs (8 km) 59% 58%

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

Simon · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:15:59
3:433:584:082:224:143:534:334:344:344:324:301:574:414:326:214:498:47
Thomas · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:16:17
3:414:034:141:494:404:004:424:115:064:264:421:494:364:126:395:168:20
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.Simon · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 36:44 running, 30:37 at the stations and 8:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:49).Below, Thomas · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 38:20 running, 29:46 at the stations and 8:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:16) and the shortest the sled push (1:49).

See the numbers
Part Simon · Sydney 2025 · Open Men Thomas · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:43 3:41
SkiErg 3:58 4:03
Run 2 4:08 4:14
Sled push 2:22 1:49
Run 3 4:14 4:40
Sled pull 3:53 4:00
Run 4 4:33 4:42
Burpee broad jump 4:34 4:11
Run 5 4:34 5:06
Row 4:32 4:26
Run 6 4:30 4:42
Farmers carry 1:57 1:49
Run 7 4:41 4:36
Sandbag lunges 4:32 4:12
Run 8 6:21 6:39
Wall balls 4:49 5:16
Roxzone 8:47 8:20
Finish 1:15:59 1:16:17

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Simon Thomas Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 1:16:16 1:16:17 0:01 · Simon faster
Brisbane 2026 Doubles Men · 9 Apr 2026 1:09:00 1:09:19 0:19 · Simon faster
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