Max vs Matthew

AUS AUS · Open Men · 4 results

Max Lightfoot-Brown

1:08:36 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
240th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Matthew Cottam

1:27:28 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
1838th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Max: Sydney 2025, Open Men · Matthew: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Max and Matthew sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Max: strongest on Row (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 62%).Matthew: strongest on Push (faster than 61% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 36%).

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Part Max: faster than Matthew: faster than
Ski 89% 46%
Push 80% 61%
Pull 93% 44%
BBJ 89% 43%
Row 94% 37%
Carry 62% 46%
Lunges 88% 55%
Wall balls 82% 41%
Roxzone 76% 36%
Runs 84% 43%

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

Part by part

Part Max Matthew
SkiErg 89% 46%
Sled push 80% 61%
Sled pull 93% 44%
Burpee broad jump 89% 43%
Row 94% 37%
Farmers carry 62% 46%
Sandbag lunges 88% 55%
Wall balls 82% 41%
Roxzone (moving) 76% 36%
Runs (8 km) 84% 43%

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

Max · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:08:36
3:264:023:491:593:593:304:063:524:094:144:072:023:554:005:234:537:17
Matthew · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:27:28
4:134:284:262:284:354:374:406:025:074:534:592:084:515:237:527:329:21
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.Max · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 32:54 running, 28:31 at the stations and 7:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:53) and the shortest the sled push (1:59).Below, Matthew · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 40:43 running, 37:31 at the stations and 9:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:32).

See the numbers
Part Max · Sydney 2025 · Open Men Matthew · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:26 4:13
SkiErg 4:02 4:28
Run 2 3:49 4:26
Sled push 1:59 2:28
Run 3 3:59 4:35
Sled pull 3:30 4:37
Run 4 4:06 4:40
Burpee broad jump 3:52 6:02
Run 5 4:09 5:07
Row 4:14 4:53
Run 6 4:07 4:59
Farmers carry 2:02 2:08
Run 7 3:55 4:51
Sandbag lunges 4:00 5:23
Run 8 5:23 7:52
Wall balls 4:53 7:32
Roxzone 7:17 9:21
Finish 1:08:36 1:27:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Max Matthew Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 1:27:28 1:27:28 level
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