Ben vs Tom

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Ben Cottrell

1:09:53 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
490th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Tom Grindrod

1:08:38 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
615th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Tom: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ben and Tom sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ben: strongest on Carry (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 58%).Tom: strongest on BBJ (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 51%).

See the numbers
Part Ben: faster than Tom: faster than
Ski 75% 77%
Push 82% 51%
Pull 70% 89%
BBJ 82% 94%
Row 76% 87%
Carry 97% 72%
Lunges 75% 78%
Wall balls 58% 92%
Roxzone 84% 87%
Runs 94% 83%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Tom
SkiErg 75% 77%
Sled push 82% 51%
Sled pull 70% 89%
Burpee broad jump 82% 94%
Row 76% 87%
Farmers carry 97% 72%
Sandbag lunges 75% 78%
Wall balls 58% 92%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 87%
Runs (8 km) 94% 83%

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

Ben · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:09:53
4:064:193:392:324:034:293:534:183:574:344:021:294:054:234:066:485:18
Tom · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:08:38
2:474:363:212:483:323:473:353:303:354:333:321:493:314:165:064:499:38
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.Ben · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 31:50 running, 32:52 at the stations and 5:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:48).Below, Tom · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 28:58 running, 30:08 at the stations and 9:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:49).

See the numbers
Part Ben · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Tom · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:06 2:47
SkiErg 4:19 4:36
Run 2 3:39 3:21
Sled push 2:32 2:48
Run 3 4:03 3:32
Sled pull 4:29 3:47
Run 4 3:53 3:35
Burpee broad jump 4:18 3:30
Run 5 3:57 3:35
Row 4:34 4:33
Run 6 4:02 3:32
Farmers carry 1:29 1:49
Run 7 4:05 3:31
Sandbag lunges 4:23 4:16
Run 8 4:06 5:06
Wall balls 6:48 4:49
Roxzone 5:18 9:38
Finish 1:09:53 1:08:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ben Tom Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:09:53 1:09:55 0:02 · Ben faster
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