Daniel vs Paul

AUS AUS · Open Men · 5 results

Daniel Knust

1:14:18 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
652nd of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Paul Merget

1:14:14 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
650th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Daniel: Sydney 2026, Open Men · Paul: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Daniel and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Daniel: strongest on BBJ (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 25%).Paul: strongest on Row (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 58%).

See the numbers
Part Daniel: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 44% 68%
Push 25% 58%
Pull 75% 93%
BBJ 85% 85%
Row 49% 95%
Carry 85% 71%
Lunges 83% 60%
Wall balls 63% 84%
Roxzone 81% 86%
Runs 81% 69%

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

Part by part

Part Daniel Paul
SkiErg 44% 68%
Sled push 25% 58%
Sled pull 75% 93%
Burpee broad jump 85% 85%
Row 49% 95%
Farmers carry 85% 71%
Sandbag lunges 83% 60%
Wall balls 63% 84%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 86%
Runs (8 km) 81% 69%

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

Daniel · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:14:18
3:334:294:003:024:053:524:034:204:064:464:091:404:114:206:156:187:16
Paul · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:14:14
4:154:184:222:314:283:194:224:184:234:164:281:504:215:115:515:107:01
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.Daniel · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 34:22 running, 32:47 at the stations and 7:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:18).Below, Paul · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 36:31 running, 30:53 at the stations and 7:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (5:11).

See the numbers
Part Daniel · Sydney 2026 · Open Men Paul · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:33 4:15
SkiErg 4:29 4:18
Run 2 4:00 4:22
Sled push 3:02 2:31
Run 3 4:05 4:28
Sled pull 3:52 3:19
Run 4 4:03 4:22
Burpee broad jump 4:20 4:18
Run 5 4:06 4:23
Row 4:46 4:16
Run 6 4:09 4:28
Farmers carry 1:40 1:50
Run 7 4:11 4:21
Sandbag lunges 4:20 5:11
Run 8 6:15 5:51
Wall balls 6:18 5:10
Roxzone 7:16 7:01
Finish 1:14:18 1:14:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Daniel Paul Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 1:14:18 1:14:14 0:04 · Paul faster
The RoxHype app

Close the gap at your next race.

The RoxHype app is your training plan to race day: built from your splits, your kit and your race date, and adjusted every week.

  • A week-by-week plan that counts down to your race
  • Extra work on your slowest stations
  • Adjusts every week to what you actually did

Free to download. Used by more than 40,000 HYROX athletes.

RoxHype app home: days to your HYROX, your expected finish range and this week's sessions RoxHype workout player guiding a sled push, with the next exercise lined up