Lifa vs Romio

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Lifa Kunene

1:26:46 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
85th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Romio Karam

1:20:55 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
149th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Lifa: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men · Romio: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Lifa and Romio sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Lifa: strongest on Lunges (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 50%).Romio: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 23%).

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Part Lifa: faster than Romio: faster than
Ski 71% 55%
Push 78% 28%
Pull 65% 40%
BBJ 80% 74%
Row 74% 68%
Carry 56% 23%
Lunges 92% 65%
Wall balls 50% 62%
Roxzone 53% 92%
Runs 81% 88%

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

Part by part

Part Lifa Romio
SkiErg 71% 55%
Sled push 78% 28%
Sled pull 65% 40%
Burpee broad jump 80% 74%
Row 74% 68%
Farmers carry 56% 23%
Sandbag lunges 92% 65%
Wall balls 50% 62%
Roxzone (moving) 53% 92%
Runs (8 km) 81% 88%

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

Lifa · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men1:26:46
3:134:224:392:305:474:465:435:225:464:575:262:165:344:026:188:237:49
Romio · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:20:55
3:064:254:343:384:445:394:464:495:024:505:062:365:135:035:327:074:53
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.Lifa · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 42:26 running, 36:38 at the stations and 7:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:23).Below, Romio · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 38:03 running, 38:07 at the stations and 4:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:07).

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Part Lifa · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men Romio · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:13 3:06
SkiErg 4:22 4:25
Run 2 4:39 4:34
Sled push 2:30 3:38
Run 3 5:47 4:44
Sled pull 4:46 5:39
Run 4 5:43 4:46
Burpee broad jump 5:22 4:49
Run 5 5:46 5:02
Row 4:57 4:50
Run 6 5:26 5:06
Farmers carry 2:16 2:36
Run 7 5:34 5:13
Sandbag lunges 4:02 5:03
Run 8 6:18 5:32
Wall balls 8:23 7:07
Roxzone 7:49 4:53
Finish 1:26:46 1:20:55

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Lifa Romio Gap
Johannesburg (I) 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:26:46 1:26:42 0:04 · Romio faster
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