Thomas vs Robert

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

Robert van Buiten

1:41:21 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2024
1841st of 2,198 place in that race · 2,198 Open Men finishers

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

Thomas: Heerenveen 2025, Open Men · Robert: Amsterdam 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Thomas and Robert 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%).Robert: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 35% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Thomas: faster than Robert: faster than
Ski 6% 2%
Push 4% 8%
Pull 37% 4%
BBJ 20% 12%
Row 9% 20%
Carry 7% 12%
Lunges 12% 34%
Wall balls 11% 22%
Roxzone 22% 35%
Runs 12% 22%

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

Part by part

Part Thomas Robert
SkiErg 6% 2%
Sled push 4% 8%
Sled pull 37% 4%
Burpee broad jump 20% 12%
Row 9% 20%
Farmers carry 7% 12%
Sandbag lunges 12% 34%
Wall balls 11% 22%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 35%
Runs (8 km) 12% 22%

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
Robert · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men1:41:21
4:185:155:423:145:536:396:027:569:385:095:512:326:225:326:477:446:58
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, Robert · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men: 50:32 running, 44:00 at the stations and 6:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:56).

See the numbers
Part Thomas · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men Robert · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:42 4:18
SkiErg 4:57 5:15
Run 2 5:17 5:42
Sled push 3:58 3:14
Run 3 5:46 5:53
Sled pull 5:10 6:39
Run 4 5:54 6:02
Burpee broad jump 7:22 7:56
Run 5 6:32 9:38
Row 5:26 5:09
Run 6 5:57 5:51
Farmers carry 3:10 2:32
Run 7 6:28 6:22
Sandbag lunges 7:09 5:32
Run 8 7:48 6:47
Wall balls 9:24 7:44
Roxzone 9:55 6:58
Finish 1:44:48 1:41:21

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Thomas Robert Gap
Heerenveen 2025 Open Men · 10 May 2025 1:44:48 1:44:23 0:25 · Robert faster
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