Michael vs Beat

GER GER · Open Men · 4 results

Michael Förster

1:46:34 best Open Men time · Geneva 2025
1253rd of 1,386 place in that race · 1,386 Open Men finishers
SUI SUI · Open Men · 1 result

Beat Kessler

1:49:07 best Open Men time · St. Gallen 2026
933rd of 1,068 place in that race · 1,068 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Geneva 2025, Open Men · Beat: St. Gallen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Beat sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Runs (faster than 53% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 0%).Beat: strongest on BBJ (faster than 60% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Michael: faster than Beat: faster than
Ski 28% 2%
Push 9% 56%
Pull 3% 21%
BBJ 25% 60%
Row 37% 7%
Carry 1% 56%
Lunges 13% 14%
Wall balls 0% 10%
Roxzone 31% 15%
Runs 53% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Beat
SkiErg 28% 2%
Sled push 9% 56%
Sled pull 3% 21%
Burpee broad jump 25% 60%
Row 37% 7%
Farmers carry 1% 56%
Sandbag lunges 13% 14%
Wall balls 0% 10%
Roxzone (moving) 31% 15%
Runs (8 km) 53% 11%

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 · Geneva 2025 · Open Men1:46:34
5:064:544:284:204:328:214:336:224:585:004:543:555:106:505:3420:277:17
Beat · St. Gallen 2026 · Open Men1:49:07
5:435:195:163:056:105:485:595:148:165:306:001:585:596:5910:1011:3610:13
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 · Geneva 2025 · Open Men: 39:16 running, 1:00:09 at the stations and 7:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (20:27).Below, Beat · St. Gallen 2026 · Open Men: 53:34 running, 45:29 at the stations and 10:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:36).

See the numbers
Part Michael · Geneva 2025 · Open Men Beat · St. Gallen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:06 5:43
SkiErg 4:54 5:19
Run 2 4:28 5:16
Sled push 4:20 3:05
Run 3 4:32 6:10
Sled pull 8:21 5:48
Run 4 4:33 5:59
Burpee broad jump 6:22 5:14
Run 5 4:58 8:16
Row 5:00 5:30
Run 6 4:54 6:00
Farmers carry 3:55 1:58
Run 7 5:10 5:59
Sandbag lunges 6:50 6:59
Run 8 5:34 10:10
Wall balls 20:27 11:36
Roxzone 7:17 10:13
Finish 1:46:34 1:49:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Beat Gap
St. Gallen 2026 Open Men · 16 Jan 2026 1:49:10 1:49:07 0:03 · Beat faster
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