Sheldon vs Janno

RSA RSA · Pro Men · 4 results

Sheldon Valjalo

1:07:14 best Pro Men time · Chicago 2025
245th of 522 place in that race · 522 Pro Men finishers
RSA RSA · Pro Men · 13 results

Janno Nel

1:02:48 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
8th of 178 place in that race · 178 Pro Men finishers

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

Sheldon: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Pro Men · Janno: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men

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

This chart shows where Sheldon and Janno sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sheldon: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 58%).Janno: strongest on Lunges (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 72%).

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Part Sheldon: faster than Janno: faster than
Ski 97% 93%
Push 58% 72%
Pull 84% 92%
BBJ 83% 88%
Row 95% 94%
Carry 70% 86%
Lunges 87% 98%
Wall balls 83% 94%
Roxzone 99% 94%
Runs 98% 96%

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

Part by part

Part Sheldon Janno
SkiErg 97% 93%
Sled push 58% 72%
Sled pull 84% 92%
Burpee broad jump 83% 88%
Row 95% 94%
Farmers carry 70% 86%
Sandbag lunges 87% 98%
Wall balls 83% 94%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 94%
Runs (8 km) 98% 96%

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

Sheldon · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Pro Men1:09:01
2:263:523:543:244:085:344:213:564:144:234:182:004:124:034:246:063:53
Janno · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:02:48
2:553:533:593:034:163:514:113:054:084:044:111:414:073:164:124:403:22
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.Sheldon · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Pro Men: 31:56 running, 33:18 at the stations and 3:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:06).Below, Janno · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 31:59 running, 27:33 at the stations and 3:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:40).

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Part Sheldon · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Pro Men Janno · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men
Run 1 2:26 2:55
SkiErg 3:52 3:53
Run 2 3:54 3:59
Sled push 3:24 3:03
Run 3 4:08 4:16
Sled pull 5:34 3:51
Run 4 4:21 4:11
Burpee broad jump 3:56 3:05
Run 5 4:14 4:08
Row 4:23 4:04
Run 6 4:18 4:11
Farmers carry 2:00 1:41
Run 7 4:12 4:07
Sandbag lunges 4:03 3:16
Run 8 4:24 4:12
Wall balls 6:06 4:40
Roxzone 3:53 3:22
Finish 1:09:01 1:02:48

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Sheldon Janno Gap
Chicago 2025 Pro Men · 13 Jun 2025 1:07:14 1:03:32 3:42 · Janno faster
Johannesburg (I) 2025 Pro Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:09:01 1:10:54 1:53 · Sheldon faster
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