Aj vs Paul

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Aj Malhotra

1:36:41 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
709th of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Taormina

1:36:40 best Open Men time · Salt Lake City 2026
707th of 1,296 place in that race · 1,296 Open Men finishers

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

Aj: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men · Paul: Salt Lake City 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Aj and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Aj: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 13%).Paul: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 31%).

See the numbers
Part Aj: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 13% 52%
Push 26% 69%
Pull 25% 77%
BBJ 37% 51%
Row 36% 56%
Carry 48% 99%
Lunges 46% 31%
Wall balls 83% 52%
Roxzone 52% 44%
Runs 41% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Aj Paul
SkiErg 13% 52%
Sled push 26% 69%
Sled pull 25% 77%
Burpee broad jump 37% 51%
Row 36% 56%
Farmers carry 48% 99%
Sandbag lunges 46% 31%
Wall balls 83% 52%
Roxzone (moving) 52% 44%
Runs (8 km) 41% 34%

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

Aj · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men1:36:41
3:505:105:503:406:175:566:126:476:035:155:582:095:585:466:125:549:51
Paul · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men1:36:40
3:264:425:452:436:094:196:016:016:115:006:021:267:556:286:188:0110:21
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.Aj · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 46:20 running, 40:37 at the stations and 9:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:47).Below, Paul · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men: 47:47 running, 38:41 at the stations and 10:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:01).

See the numbers
Part Aj · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men Paul · Salt Lake City 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:50 3:26
SkiErg 5:10 4:42
Run 2 5:50 5:45
Sled push 3:40 2:43
Run 3 6:17 6:09
Sled pull 5:56 4:19
Run 4 6:12 6:01
Burpee broad jump 6:47 6:01
Run 5 6:03 6:11
Row 5:15 5:00
Run 6 5:58 6:02
Farmers carry 2:09 1:26
Run 7 5:58 7:55
Sandbag lunges 5:46 6:28
Run 8 6:12 6:18
Wall balls 5:54 8:01
Roxzone 9:51 10:21
Finish 1:36:41 1:36:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Aj Paul Gap
Salt Lake City 2026 Open Men · 18 Sep 2026 1:36:41 1:36:40 0:01 · Paul faster
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