James vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

James Kettlewell

1:18:27 best Open Men time · London 2024
724th of 2,324 place in that race · 2,324 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Paul Holdaway

1:21:35 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2546th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

James: London 2024, Open Men · Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
JamesPauledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where James and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 29%).Paul: strongest on Pull (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 25%).

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Part James: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 45% 54%
Push 60% 44%
Pull 65% 86%
BBJ 57% 86%
Row 36% 85%
Carry 29% 36%
Lunges 73% 55%
Wall balls 64% 25%
Roxzone 78% 57%
Runs 70% 50%

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

Part by part

Part James Paul
SkiErg 45% 54%
Sled push 60% 44%
Sled pull 65% 86%
Burpee broad jump 57% 86%
Row 36% 85%
Farmers carry 29% 36%
Sandbag lunges 73% 55%
Wall balls 64% 25%
Roxzone (moving) 78% 57%
Runs (8 km) 70% 50%

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

James · London 2024 · Open Men1:18:27
5:234:283:572:544:174:374:265:374:304:564:322:264:354:225:116:006:26
Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:21:35
3:294:483:582:543:553:524:004:004:034:353:542:144:184:595:539:3111:20
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.James · London 2024 · Open Men: 36:50 running, 35:20 at the stations and 6:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:00).Below, Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 33:30 running, 36:53 at the stations and 11:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:31).

See the numbers
Part James · London 2024 · Open Men Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:23 3:29
SkiErg 4:28 4:48
Run 2 3:57 3:58
Sled push 2:54 2:54
Run 3 4:17 3:55
Sled pull 4:37 3:52
Run 4 4:26 4:00
Burpee broad jump 5:37 4:00
Run 5 4:30 4:03
Row 4:56 4:35
Run 6 4:32 3:54
Farmers carry 2:26 2:14
Run 7 4:35 4:18
Sandbag lunges 4:22 4:59
Run 8 5:11 5:53
Wall balls 6:00 9:31
Roxzone 6:26 11:20
Finish 1:18:27 1:21:35

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race James Paul Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:21:36 1:21:35 0:01 · Paul faster
London 2024 Open Men · 1 Dec 2024 1:18:27 1:23:38 5:11 · James faster
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