Michael vs Kai-Wen

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Skarparis

1:30:57 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2024
348th of 595 place in that race · 595 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 6 results

Kai-Wen Hsiao

1:10:49 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
412th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Brisbane 2024, Open Men · Kai-Wen: Sydney 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MichaelKai-Wenedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Michael and Kai-Wen sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Lunges (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 10%).Kai-Wen: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 30%).

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Part Michael: faster than Kai-Wen: faster than
Ski 26% 30%
Push 10% 30%
Pull 40% 64%
BBJ 62% 87%
Row 36% 45%
Carry 26% 60%
Lunges 93% 88%
Wall balls 51% 83%
Roxzone 12% 95%
Runs 38% 90%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Kai-Wen
SkiErg 26% 30%
Sled push 10% 30%
Sled pull 40% 64%
Burpee broad jump 62% 87%
Row 36% 45%
Farmers carry 26% 60%
Sandbag lunges 93% 88%
Wall balls 51% 83%
Roxzone (moving) 12% 95%
Runs (8 km) 38% 90%

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

Michael · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men1:30:57
3:144:334:593:375:185:175:455:145:564:526:042:416:324:037:146:309:18
Kai-Wen · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:10:49
3:214:373:432:553:564:063:524:134:044:483:571:584:024:075:375:156:25
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.Michael · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men: 45:01 running, 36:47 at the stations and 9:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:30).Below, Kai-Wen · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 32:32 running, 32:00 at the stations and 6:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:15).

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Part Michael · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men Kai-Wen · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:14 3:21
SkiErg 4:33 4:37
Run 2 4:59 3:43
Sled push 3:37 2:55
Run 3 5:18 3:56
Sled pull 5:17 4:06
Run 4 5:45 3:52
Burpee broad jump 5:14 4:13
Run 5 5:56 4:04
Row 4:52 4:48
Run 6 6:04 3:57
Farmers carry 2:41 1:58
Run 7 6:32 4:02
Sandbag lunges 4:03 4:07
Run 8 7:14 5:37
Wall balls 6:30 5:15
Roxzone 9:18 6:25
Finish 1:30:57 1:10:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Kai-Wen Gap
Brisbane 2024 Open Men · 17 Aug 2024 1:30:57 1:31:02 0:05 · Michael faster
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