James vs Michael

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

James Martin

1:59:13 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5335th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Michael Beastall

1:51:28 best Open Men time · London Olympia 2026
2399th of 2,650 place in that race · 2,650 Open Men finishers

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

James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Michael: London Olympia 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 14% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 1%).Michael: strongest on Push (faster than 37% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 5%).

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Part James: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 13% 17%
Push 3% 37%
Pull 1% 5%
BBJ 3% 18%
Row 9% 9%
Carry 11% 8%
Lunges 11% 7%
Wall balls 14% 15%
Roxzone 2% 13%
Runs 6% 10%

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

Part by part

Part James Michael
SkiErg 13% 17%
Sled push 3% 37%
Sled pull 1% 5%
Burpee broad jump 3% 18%
Row 9% 9%
Farmers carry 11% 8%
Sandbag lunges 11% 7%
Wall balls 14% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 2% 13%
Runs (8 km) 6% 10%

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

James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:59:13
4:045:164:504:215:148:485:2510:165:405:385:242:515:167:258:2411:0619:21
Michael · London Olympia 2026 · Open Men1:51:28
5:464:495:413:115:566:546:157:296:275:346:273:186:198:0710:1010:488:26
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.James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 44:17 running, 55:41 at the stations and 19:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:06).Below, Michael · London Olympia 2026 · Open Men: 53:01 running, 50:10 at the stations and 8:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:48) and the shortest the sled push (3:11).

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Part James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Michael · London Olympia 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:04 5:46
SkiErg 5:16 4:49
Run 2 4:50 5:41
Sled push 4:21 3:11
Run 3 5:14 5:56
Sled pull 8:48 6:54
Run 4 5:25 6:15
Burpee broad jump 10:16 7:29
Run 5 5:40 6:27
Row 5:38 5:34
Run 6 5:24 6:27
Farmers carry 2:51 3:18
Run 7 5:16 6:19
Sandbag lunges 7:25 8:07
Run 8 8:24 10:10
Wall balls 11:06 10:48
Roxzone 19:21 8:26
Finish 1:59:13 1:51:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Michael Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:59:13 1:59:17 0:04 · James faster
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