Owen vs Matt

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Owen Looby

1:31:35 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
1697th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Matt Palfrey

1:31:34 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
1695th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers

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

Owen: Manchester 2026, Open Men · Matt: Manchester 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Owen and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Owen: strongest on Row (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 14%).Matt: strongest on Lunges (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 6%).

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Part Owen: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 31% 39%
Push 19% 64%
Pull 30% 21%
BBJ 43% 27%
Row 71% 62%
Carry 14% 16%
Lunges 49% 94%
Wall balls 32% 52%
Roxzone 69% 6%
Runs 25% 41%

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

Part by part

Part Owen Matt
SkiErg 31% 39%
Sled push 19% 64%
Sled pull 30% 21%
Burpee broad jump 43% 27%
Row 71% 62%
Farmers carry 14% 16%
Sandbag lunges 49% 94%
Wall balls 32% 52%
Roxzone (moving) 69% 6%
Runs (8 km) 25% 41%

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

Owen · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:31:35
4:464:334:473:148:185:038:205:454:574:334:572:524:575:266:188:234:34
Matt · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:31:34
3:414:285:312:335:575:295:576:385:554:385:402:485:153:315:116:5711:31
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.Owen · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 47:20 running, 39:49 at the stations and 4:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:23).Below, Matt · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 43:07 running, 37:02 at the stations and 11:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:57) and the shortest the sled push (2:33).

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Part Owen · Manchester 2026 · Open Men Matt · Manchester 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:46 3:41
SkiErg 4:33 4:28
Run 2 4:47 5:31
Sled push 3:14 2:33
Run 3 8:18 5:57
Sled pull 5:03 5:29
Run 4 8:20 5:57
Burpee broad jump 5:45 6:38
Run 5 4:57 5:55
Row 4:33 4:38
Run 6 4:57 5:40
Farmers carry 2:52 2:48
Run 7 4:57 5:15
Sandbag lunges 5:26 3:31
Run 8 6:18 5:11
Wall balls 8:23 6:57
Roxzone 4:34 11:31
Finish 1:31:35 1:31:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Owen Matt Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:31:35 1:31:34 0:01 · Matt faster
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