Melissa vs Despina
GER · Pro Women · 3 results Melissa Thrum
GER · Pro Women · 1 result Despina Wartemann
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Melissa: Hamburg 2024, Open Women · Despina: Cologne 2025, Pro Women
Not the same division. Melissa's race here is Open Women and Despina's is Pro Women, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.
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This chart shows where Melissa and Despina sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melissa: strongest on Push (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 7%).Despina: strongest on Pull (faster than 33% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 1%).
See the numbers
| Part | Melissa: faster than | Despina: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 28% | 2% |
| Push | 65% | 1% |
| Pull | 21% | 33% |
| BBJ | 41% | no split |
| Row | 30% | 17% |
| Carry | 65% | 8% |
| Lunges | 33% | 1% |
| Wall balls | 19% | 8% |
| Roxzone | 12% | no split |
| Runs | 7% | 7% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Melissa | Despina |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 28% | 2% |
| Sled push | 65% | 1% |
| Sled pull | 21% | 33% |
| Burpee broad jump | 41% | — |
| Row | 30% | 17% |
| Farmers carry | 65% | 8% |
| Sandbag lunges | 33% | 1% |
| Wall balls | 19% | 8% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 12% | — |
| Runs (8 km) | 7% | 7% |
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
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.Melissa · Hamburg 2024 · Open Women: 58:21 running, 42:43 at the stations and 10:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:45).Below, Despina · Cologne 2025 · Pro Women: 53:35 running and 46:54 at the stations; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (10:09).
See the numbers
| Part | Melissa · Hamburg 2024 · Open Women | Despina · Cologne 2025 · Pro Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 5:42 | 6:15 |
| SkiErg | 5:17 | 5:38 |
| Run 2 | 8:56 | 5:20 |
| Sled push | 2:04 | 7:03 |
| Run 3 | 8:05 | 6:07 |
| Sled pull | 6:12 | 5:42 |
| Run 4 | 7:01 | 6:20 |
| Burpee broad jump | 7:10 | — |
| Run 5 | 6:49 | 6:36 |
| Row | 5:32 | 5:26 |
| Run 6 | 6:55 | 6:15 |
| Farmers carry | 2:01 | 3:25 |
| Run 7 | 6:56 | 6:34 |
| Sandbag lunges | 5:42 | 10:09 |
| Run 8 | 7:57 | 10:08 |
| Wall balls | 8:45 | 9:31 |
| Roxzone | 10:53 | — |
| Finish | 1:51:50 | 1:56:31 |
Head to head: 1 race they both ran
| Race | Melissa | Despina | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cologne 2025 Pro Women · 10 Apr 2025 | 1:58:04 | 1:56:31 | 1:33 · Despina faster |
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