Mel vs Rachel
Mel Manu
Rachel Hellessey
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Mel: Brisbane 2024, Open Women · Rachel: Melbourne 2025, Open Women
This chart shows where Mel and Rachel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mel: strongest on Pull (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 6%).Rachel: strongest on BBJ (faster than 40% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 2%).
See the numbers
| Part | Mel: faster than | Rachel: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 52% | 35% |
| Push | 69% | 38% |
| Pull | 90% | 26% |
| BBJ | 47% | 40% |
| Row | 48% | 16% |
| Carry | 78% | 2% |
| Lunges | 35% | 23% |
| Wall balls | 87% | 39% |
| Roxzone | 11% | 9% |
| Runs | 6% | 4% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Mel | Rachel |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 52% | 35% |
| Sled push | 69% | 38% |
| Sled pull | 90% | 26% |
| Burpee broad jump | 47% | 40% |
| Row | 48% | 16% |
| Farmers carry | 78% | 2% |
| Sandbag lunges | 35% | 23% |
| Wall balls | 87% | 39% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 11% | 9% |
| Runs (8 km) | 6% | 4% |
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.Mel · Brisbane 2024 · Open Women: 1:00:15 running, 33:12 at the stations and 8:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:07).Below, Rachel · Melbourne 2025 · Open Women: 1:01:15 running, 43:17 at the stations and 13:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:43) and the shortest the sled push (2:42).
See the numbers
| Part | Mel · Brisbane 2024 · Open Women | Rachel · Melbourne 2025 · Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 4:39 | 3:53 |
| SkiErg | 4:56 | 5:13 |
| Run 2 | 6:24 | 7:27 |
| Sled push | 2:07 | 2:42 |
| Run 3 | 6:50 | 7:38 |
| Sled pull | 4:08 | 6:25 |
| Run 4 | 8:11 | 7:49 |
| Burpee broad jump | 6:07 | 6:43 |
| Run 5 | 8:42 | 7:59 |
| Row | 5:14 | 5:48 |
| Run 6 | 8:19 | 8:07 |
| Farmers carry | 2:01 | 3:48 |
| Run 7 | 8:06 | 8:24 |
| Sandbag lunges | 5:26 | 6:08 |
| Run 8 | 9:04 | 9:58 |
| Wall balls | 3:13 | 6:30 |
| Roxzone | 8:47 | 13:34 |
| Finish | 1:42:05 | 1:57:59 |
Head to head: 2 races they both ran
| Race | Mel | Rachel | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne 2025 Open Women · 11 Dec 2025 | 1:58:12 | 1:57:59 | 0:13 · Rachel faster |
| Melbourne 2024 Doubles Women · 28 Jun 2024 | 1:40:52 | 1:38:03 | 2:49 · Rachel faster |
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