Phillip vs Marvin

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Phillip Meyer

1:32:42 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
338th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Marvin Absalom

1:39:32 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
382nd of 717 place in that race · 717 Open Men finishers

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

Phillip: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Marvin: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Phillip and Marvin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Phillip: strongest on BBJ (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 15%).Marvin: strongest on BBJ (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 10%).

See the numbers
Part Phillip: faster than Marvin: faster than
Ski 45% 34%
Push 48% 16%
Pull 51% 10%
BBJ 95% 74%
Row 26% 16%
Carry 46% 23%
Lunges 64% 58%
Wall balls 54% 31%
Roxzone 15% 45%
Runs 60% 57%

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

Part by part

Part Phillip Marvin
SkiErg 45% 34%
Sled push 48% 16%
Sled pull 51% 10%
Burpee broad jump 95% 74%
Row 26% 16%
Farmers carry 46% 23%
Sandbag lunges 64% 58%
Wall balls 54% 31%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 45%
Runs (8 km) 60% 57%

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

Phillip · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:32:42
3:464:305:233:085:375:165:443:426:125:275:492:125:415:047:137:3610:31
Marvin · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:39:32
5:144:415:264:226:317:465:545:145:345:405:372:495:375:276:589:367:11
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.Phillip · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 45:25 running, 36:55 at the stations and 10:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:36).Below, Marvin · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 46:52 running, 45:35 at the stations and 7:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:36).

See the numbers
Part Phillip · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Marvin · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:46 5:14
SkiErg 4:30 4:41
Run 2 5:23 5:26
Sled push 3:08 4:22
Run 3 5:37 6:31
Sled pull 5:16 7:46
Run 4 5:44 5:54
Burpee broad jump 3:42 5:14
Run 5 6:12 5:34
Row 5:27 5:40
Run 6 5:49 5:37
Farmers carry 2:12 2:49
Run 7 5:41 5:37
Sandbag lunges 5:04 5:27
Run 8 7:13 6:58
Wall balls 7:36 9:36
Roxzone 10:31 7:11
Finish 1:32:42 1:39:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Phillip Marvin Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:39:49 1:39:32 0:17 · Marvin faster
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