Gemma vs Melissa

GBR GBR · Open Women · 10 results

Gemma Smith

1:49:31 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
2434th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 2 results

Melissa Vance

1:47:00 best Open Women time · Manchester 2026
1002nd of 1,356 place in that race · 1,356 Open Women finishers

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

Gemma: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women · Melissa: Manchester 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Gemma and Melissa sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gemma: strongest on Pull (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 10%).Melissa: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 8%).

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Part Gemma: faster than Melissa: faster than
Ski 60% 8%
Push 11% 99%
Pull 76% 63%
BBJ 24% 14%
Row 23% 24%
Carry 24% 59%
Lunges 10% 13%
Wall balls 27% 9%
Roxzone 17% 75%
Runs 11% 28%

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

Part by part

Part Gemma Melissa
SkiErg 60% 8%
Sled push 11% 99%
Sled pull 76% 63%
Burpee broad jump 24% 14%
Row 23% 24%
Farmers carry 24% 59%
Sandbag lunges 10% 13%
Wall balls 27% 9%
Roxzone (moving) 17% 75%
Runs (8 km) 11% 28%

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

Gemma · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:49:31
4:005:275:233:365:364:535:308:185:415:575:592:355:537:228:488:2916:12
Melissa · Manchester 2026 · Open Women1:47:00
4:105:486:221:466:545:047:169:357:235:467:182:137:277:266:2411:184:58
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.Gemma · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 46:49 running, 46:37 at the stations and 16:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:29).Below, Melissa · Manchester 2026 · Open Women: 53:14 running, 48:56 at the stations and 4:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:18) and the shortest the sled push (1:46).

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Part Gemma · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women Melissa · Manchester 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:00 4:10
SkiErg 5:27 5:48
Run 2 5:23 6:22
Sled push 3:36 1:46
Run 3 5:36 6:54
Sled pull 4:53 5:04
Run 4 5:30 7:16
Burpee broad jump 8:18 9:35
Run 5 5:41 7:23
Row 5:57 5:46
Run 6 5:59 7:18
Farmers carry 2:35 2:13
Run 7 5:53 7:27
Sandbag lunges 7:22 7:26
Run 8 8:48 6:24
Wall balls 8:29 11:18
Roxzone 16:12 4:58
Finish 1:49:31 1:47:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gemma Melissa Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Women · 4 Dec 2025 1:49:31 1:49:28 0:03 · Melissa faster
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