Patrick vs Thomas

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Patrick Birkett

1:13:56 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
64th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 4 results

Thomas Chemaly

1:13:53 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
62nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Patrick: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Thomas: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Patrick and Thomas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Patrick: strongest on Pull (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 64%).Thomas: strongest on Pull (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 42%).

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Part Patrick: faster than Thomas: faster than
Ski 86% 77%
Push 64% 56%
Pull 98% 97%
BBJ 81% 95%
Row 96% 86%
Carry 81% 90%
Lunges 71% 89%
Wall balls 72% 42%
Roxzone 93% 77%
Runs 89% 94%

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

Part by part

Part Patrick Thomas
SkiErg 86% 77%
Sled push 64% 56%
Sled pull 98% 97%
Burpee broad jump 81% 95%
Row 96% 86%
Farmers carry 81% 90%
Sandbag lunges 71% 89%
Wall balls 72% 42%
Roxzone (moving) 93% 77%
Runs (8 km) 89% 94%

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

Patrick · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:13:56
3:324:124:412:404:463:154:554:345:104:204:541:554:455:045:026:184:01
Thomas · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:13:53
3:224:184:292:464:383:194:433:414:314:324:341:474:424:144:578:185:10
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.Patrick · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 37:45 running, 32:19 at the stations and 4:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:18).Below, Thomas · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 35:56 running, 32:55 at the stations and 5:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:18).

See the numbers
Part Patrick · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Thomas · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:32 3:22
SkiErg 4:12 4:18
Run 2 4:41 4:29
Sled push 2:40 2:46
Run 3 4:46 4:38
Sled pull 3:15 3:19
Run 4 4:55 4:43
Burpee broad jump 4:34 3:41
Run 5 5:10 4:31
Row 4:20 4:32
Run 6 4:54 4:34
Farmers carry 1:55 1:47
Run 7 4:45 4:42
Sandbag lunges 5:04 4:14
Run 8 5:02 4:57
Wall balls 6:18 8:18
Roxzone 4:01 5:10
Finish 1:13:56 1:13:53

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Patrick Thomas Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:13:56 1:13:53 0:03 · Thomas faster
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:27:02 1:18:06 8:56 · Thomas faster
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