Elle vs Ruth

USA USA · Open Women · 1 result

Elle Nelson

1:13:32 best Open Women time · Milan 2024
28th of 673 place in that race · 673 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 7 results

Ruth Hough

1:04:37 best Open Women time · Copenhagen 2025
4th of 657 place in that race · 657 Open Women finishers

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

Elle: Milan 2024, Open Women · Ruth: Copenhagen 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Elle and Ruth sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Elle: strongest on Runs (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 38%).Ruth: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 82%).

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Part Elle: faster than Ruth: faster than
Ski 96% 99%
Push 56% 99%
Pull 38% 99%
BBJ 95% 95%
Row 69% 99%
Carry 74% 97%
Lunges 95% 94%
Wall balls 98% 82%
Roxzone 96% 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 Elle Ruth
SkiErg 96% 99%
Sled push 56% 99%
Sled pull 38% 99%
Burpee broad jump 95% 95%
Row 69% 99%
Farmers carry 74% 97%
Sandbag lunges 95% 94%
Wall balls 98% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 96% 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

Elle · Milan 2024 · Open Women1:13:32
5:154:404:052:594:116:534:114:224:305:134:182:014:183:373:343:485:45
Ruth · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Women1:04:37
4:184:253:481:414:093:124:044:034:054:334:071:323:573:224:134:414:34
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.Elle · Milan 2024 · Open Women: 34:22 running, 33:34 at the stations and 5:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:53).Below, Ruth · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Women: 32:41 running, 27:29 at the stations and 4:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:41).

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Part Elle · Milan 2024 · Open Women Ruth · Copenhagen 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 5:15 4:18
SkiErg 4:40 4:25
Run 2 4:05 3:48
Sled push 2:59 1:41
Run 3 4:11 4:09
Sled pull 6:53 3:12
Run 4 4:11 4:04
Burpee broad jump 4:22 4:03
Run 5 4:30 4:05
Row 5:13 4:33
Run 6 4:18 4:07
Farmers carry 2:01 1:32
Run 7 4:18 3:57
Sandbag lunges 3:37 3:22
Run 8 3:34 4:13
Wall balls 3:48 4:41
Roxzone 5:45 4:34
Finish 1:13:32 1:04:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Elle Ruth Gap
Milan 2024 Open Women · 19 Oct 2024 1:13:32 1:13:31 0:01 · Ruth faster
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