Abrie vs Michael

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Abrie Valentine

1:22:53 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
166th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
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Michael Swartland

1:19:43 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
132nd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Abrie: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Michael: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Abrie and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Abrie: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 17%).Michael: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 51%).

See the numbers
Part Abrie: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 17% 88%
Push 81% 51%
Pull 82% 92%
BBJ 84% 89%
Row 81% 87%
Carry 89% 83%
Lunges 87% 78%
Wall balls 89% 98%
Roxzone 64% 88%
Runs 57% 64%

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

Part by part

Part Abrie Michael
SkiErg 17% 88%
Sled push 81% 51%
Sled pull 82% 92%
Burpee broad jump 84% 89%
Row 81% 87%
Farmers carry 89% 83%
Sandbag lunges 87% 78%
Wall balls 89% 98%
Roxzone (moving) 64% 88%
Runs (8 km) 57% 64%

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

Abrie · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:22:53
4:215:005:432:245:423:595:434:275:444:375:551:485:294:216:415:205:45
Michael · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:19:43
3:314:075:173:055:373:495:474:075:584:355:501:465:494:366:234:205:15
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.Abrie · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 45:18 running, 31:56 at the stations and 5:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:20).Below, Michael · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 44:12 running, 30:25 at the stations and 5:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (4:36).

See the numbers
Part Abrie · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Michael · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:21 3:31
SkiErg 5:00 4:07
Run 2 5:43 5:17
Sled push 2:24 3:05
Run 3 5:42 5:37
Sled pull 3:59 3:49
Run 4 5:43 5:47
Burpee broad jump 4:27 4:07
Run 5 5:44 5:58
Row 4:37 4:35
Run 6 5:55 5:50
Farmers carry 1:48 1:46
Run 7 5:29 5:49
Sandbag lunges 4:21 4:36
Run 8 6:41 6:23
Wall balls 5:20 4:20
Roxzone 5:45 5:15
Finish 1:22:53 1:19:43

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Abrie Michael Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:22:53 1:22:59 0:06 · Abrie faster
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