Balkar vs Ed

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Balkar Garcha

1:11:31 best Open Men time · Sharjah 2025
81st of 576 place in that race · 576 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Ed Lowry

1:15:18 best Open Men time · Yokohama 2025
64th of 717 place in that race · 717 Open Men finishers

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

Balkar: Sharjah 2025, Open Men · Ed: Yokohama 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Balkar and Ed sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Balkar: strongest on Carry (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 65%).Ed: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 73%).

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Part Balkar: faster than Ed: faster than
Ski 66% 98%
Push 80% 99%
Pull 90% 90%
BBJ 65% 75%
Row 91% 97%
Carry 97% 90%
Lunges 82% 73%
Wall balls 70% 75%
Roxzone 78% 94%
Runs 87% 83%

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

Part by part

Part Balkar Ed
SkiErg 66% 98%
Sled push 80% 99%
Sled pull 90% 90%
Burpee broad jump 65% 75%
Row 91% 97%
Farmers carry 97% 90%
Sandbag lunges 82% 73%
Wall balls 70% 75%
Roxzone (moving) 78% 94%
Runs (8 km) 87% 83%

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

Balkar · Sharjah 2025 · Open Men1:11:31
3:394:224:222:134:403:284:275:114:274:234:271:314:314:285:115:224:58
Ed · Yokohama 2025 · Open Men1:15:18
4:364:094:081:514:364:094:314:404:494:264:411:464:464:485:016:395:42
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.Balkar · Sharjah 2025 · Open Men: 35:44 running, 30:59 at the stations and 4:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:22).Below, Ed · Yokohama 2025 · Open Men: 37:08 running, 32:28 at the stations and 5:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:39).

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Part Balkar · Sharjah 2025 · Open Men Ed · Yokohama 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:39 4:36
SkiErg 4:22 4:09
Run 2 4:22 4:08
Sled push 2:13 1:51
Run 3 4:40 4:36
Sled pull 3:28 4:09
Run 4 4:27 4:31
Burpee broad jump 5:11 4:40
Run 5 4:27 4:49
Row 4:23 4:26
Run 6 4:27 4:41
Farmers carry 1:31 1:46
Run 7 4:31 4:46
Sandbag lunges 4:28 4:48
Run 8 5:11 5:01
Wall balls 5:22 6:39
Roxzone 4:58 5:42
Finish 1:11:31 1:15:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Balkar Ed Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:16:09 1:16:10 0:01 · Balkar faster
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