Stephan vs Mathias

GER GER · Open Men · 8 results

Stephan Kesten

1:22:47 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
1541st of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 4 results

Mathias Struß

1:28:18 best Open Men time · Cologne 2026
776th of 1,452 place in that race · 1,452 Open Men finishers

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

Stephan: Berlin 2025, Open Men · Mathias: Cologne 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stephan and Mathias sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stephan: strongest on Pull (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 9%).Mathias: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 6%).

See the numbers
Part Stephan: faster than Mathias: faster than
Ski 50% 55%
Push 60% 13%
Pull 98% 31%
BBJ 34% 49%
Row 9% 32%
Carry 95% 6%
Lunges 29% 66%
Wall balls 42% 14%
Roxzone 24% 77%
Runs 35% 65%

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

Part by part

Part Stephan Mathias
SkiErg 50% 55%
Sled push 60% 13%
Sled pull 98% 31%
Burpee broad jump 34% 49%
Row 9% 32%
Farmers carry 95% 6%
Sandbag lunges 29% 66%
Wall balls 42% 14%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 77%
Runs (8 km) 35% 65%

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

Stephan · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:22:47
3:234:234:112:424:342:594:495:575:025:154:511:284:555:456:326:279:41
Mathias · Cologne 2026 · Open Men1:28:18
3:364:275:054:115:364:585:195:325:275:064:552:535:024:405:1811:005:22
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.Stephan · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 38:17 running, 34:56 at the stations and 9:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:27).Below, Mathias · Cologne 2026 · Open Men: 40:18 running, 42:47 at the stations and 5:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:00).

See the numbers
Part Stephan · Berlin 2025 · Open Men Mathias · Cologne 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:23 3:36
SkiErg 4:23 4:27
Run 2 4:11 5:05
Sled push 2:42 4:11
Run 3 4:34 5:36
Sled pull 2:59 4:58
Run 4 4:49 5:19
Burpee broad jump 5:57 5:32
Run 5 5:02 5:27
Row 5:15 5:06
Run 6 4:51 4:55
Farmers carry 1:28 2:53
Run 7 4:55 5:02
Sandbag lunges 5:45 4:40
Run 8 6:32 5:18
Wall balls 6:27 11:00
Roxzone 9:41 5:22
Finish 1:22:47 1:28:18

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Stephan Mathias Gap
Berlin 2026 Open Men · 22 May 2026 1:28:34 1:28:34 level
Hamburg 2025 Doubles Men · 3 Oct 2025 1:27:55 1:11:29 16:26 · Mathias faster
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