Charles vs Simon

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Charles Nel

1:02:52 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
4th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 10 results

Simon Goldsbrough

58:31 best Open Men time · Karlsruhe 2026
2nd of 1,725 place in that race · 1,725 Open Men finishers

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

Charles: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Simon: Karlsruhe 2026, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
CharlesSimonedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Charles and Simon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Charles: strongest on Runs (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 71%).Simon: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 92%).

See the numbers
Part Charles: faster than Simon: faster than
Ski 93% 92%
Push 97% 93%
Pull 88% 99%
BBJ 96% 99%
Row 97% 97%
Carry 71% 98%
Lunges 99% 99%
Wall balls 92% 99%
Roxzone 99% 99%
Runs 99% 99%

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

Part by part

Part Charles Simon
SkiErg 93% 92%
Sled push 97% 93%
Sled pull 88% 99%
Burpee broad jump 96% 99%
Row 97% 97%
Farmers carry 71% 98%
Sandbag lunges 99% 99%
Wall balls 92% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 99%
Runs (8 km) 99% 99%

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

Charles · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:02:52
2:304:023:392:004:204:014:023:354:064:213:581:563:583:164:065:064:03
Simon · Karlsruhe 2026 · Open Men58:31
2:474:083:552:243:543:083:592:554:064:203:591:254:093:013:233:483:20
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.Charles · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 30:39 running, 28:17 at the stations and 4:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:06).Below, Simon · Karlsruhe 2026 · Open Men: 30:11 running, 25:09 at the stations and 3:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:20).

See the numbers
Part Charles · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Simon · Karlsruhe 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:30 2:47
SkiErg 4:02 4:08
Run 2 3:39 3:55
Sled push 2:00 2:24
Run 3 4:20 3:54
Sled pull 4:01 3:08
Run 4 4:02 3:59
Burpee broad jump 3:35 2:55
Run 5 4:06 4:06
Row 4:21 4:20
Run 6 3:58 3:59
Farmers carry 1:56 1:25
Run 7 3:58 4:09
Sandbag lunges 3:16 3:01
Run 8 4:06 3:23
Wall balls 5:06 3:48
Roxzone 4:03 3:20
Finish 1:02:52 58:31

Head to head: 3 races they both ran

Race Charles Simon Gap
Cape Town 2026 Pro Doubles Men · 4 Apr 2026 55:21 54:18 1:03 · Simon faster
Johannesburg 2025 Pro Doubles Men · 29 Nov 2025 58:47 58:43 0:04 · Simon faster
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:02:52 1:02:29 0:23 · Simon faster
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