Nathan vs Michael

AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

Nathan Sykes

1:08:49 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
299th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 11 results

Michael King

1:06:38 best Open Men time · Bangkok 2026
57th of 2,828 place in that race · 2,828 Open Men finishers

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

Nathan: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Michael: Bangkok 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nathan and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nathan: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 66%).Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 79%).

See the numbers
Part Nathan: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 76% 99%
Push 66% 98%
Pull 93% 99%
BBJ 94% 99%
Row 99% 97%
Carry 99% 99%
Lunges 80% 91%
Wall balls 81% 79%
Roxzone 86% 99%
Runs 84% 96%

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

Part by part

Part Nathan Michael
SkiErg 76% 99%
Sled push 66% 98%
Sled pull 93% 99%
Burpee broad jump 94% 99%
Row 99% 97%
Farmers carry 99% 99%
Sandbag lunges 80% 91%
Wall balls 81% 79%
Roxzone (moving) 86% 99%
Runs (8 km) 84% 96%

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

Nathan · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:08:49
2:304:154:082:244:213:324:223:314:274:084:181:254:134:174:395:047:22
Michael · Bangkok 2026 · Open Men1:06:38
5:154:073:242:073:343:163:403:123:444:253:331:213:504:084:265:576:46
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.Nathan · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 32:58 running, 28:36 at the stations and 7:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:04).Below, Michael · Bangkok 2026 · Open Men: 31:26 running, 28:34 at the stations and 6:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:57).

See the numbers
Part Nathan · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Michael · Bangkok 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:30 5:15
SkiErg 4:15 4:07
Run 2 4:08 3:24
Sled push 2:24 2:07
Run 3 4:21 3:34
Sled pull 3:32 3:16
Run 4 4:22 3:40
Burpee broad jump 3:31 3:12
Run 5 4:27 3:44
Row 4:08 4:25
Run 6 4:18 3:33
Farmers carry 1:25 1:21
Run 7 4:13 3:50
Sandbag lunges 4:17 4:08
Run 8 4:39 4:26
Wall balls 5:04 5:57
Roxzone 7:22 6:46
Finish 1:08:49 1:06:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nathan Michael Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:08:49 1:08:51 0:02 · Nathan faster
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