Thomas vs Paul

NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Thomas Poelma

1:44:48 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2025
1361st of 1,541 place in that race · 1,541 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Paul van der Leij

1:43:38 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2025
1296th of 1,476 place in that race · 1,476 Open Men finishers

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

Thomas: Heerenveen 2025, Open Men · Paul: Maastricht 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Thomas and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Thomas: strongest on Pull (faster than 37% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 4%).Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 9%).

See the numbers
Part Thomas: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 6% 50%
Push 4% 70%
Pull 37% 22%
BBJ 20% 44%
Row 9% 27%
Carry 7% 28%
Lunges 12% 9%
Wall balls 11% 17%
Roxzone 22% 11%
Runs 12% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Thomas Paul
SkiErg 6% 50%
Sled push 4% 70%
Sled pull 37% 22%
Burpee broad jump 20% 44%
Row 9% 27%
Farmers carry 7% 28%
Sandbag lunges 12% 9%
Wall balls 11% 17%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 11%
Runs (8 km) 12% 11%

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

Thomas · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men1:44:48
4:424:575:173:585:465:105:547:226:325:265:573:106:287:097:489:249:55
Paul · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men1:43:38
8:014:265:222:235:375:106:015:475:015:592:156:117:218:077:4110:26
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.Thomas · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men: 48:24 running, 46:37 at the stations and 9:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:24).Below, Paul · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men: 45:19 running, 40:04 at the stations and 10:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:41).

See the numbers
Part Thomas · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men Paul · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:42 8:01
SkiErg 4:57 4:26
Run 2 5:17 5:22
Sled push 3:58 2:23
Run 3 5:46 5:37
Sled pull 5:10 5:10
Run 4 5:54 6:01
Burpee broad jump 7:22 5:47
Run 5 6:32 —
Row 5:26 5:01
Run 6 5:57 5:59
Farmers carry 3:10 2:15
Run 7 6:28 6:11
Sandbag lunges 7:09 7:21
Run 8 7:48 8:07
Wall balls 9:24 7:41
Roxzone 9:55 10:26
Finish 1:44:48 1:43:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Thomas Paul Gap
Heerenveen 2025 Open Men · 10 May 2025 1:44:48 1:44:52 0:04 · Thomas faster
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