Markus vs Nicolas

GER GER · Pro Men · 8 results

Markus Michel

1:14:55 best Pro Men time · Berlin 2025
311th of 547 place in that race · 547 Pro Men finishers
FRA FRA · Open Men · 5 results

Nicolas Paties

1:20:59 best Pro Men time · Karlsruhe 2026
147th of 320 place in that race · 320 Pro Men finishers

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

Markus: Cologne 2025, Open Men · Nicolas: Lyon 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Markus and Nicolas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Markus: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 58%).Nicolas: strongest on Carry (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 32%).

See the numbers
Part Markus: faster than Nicolas: faster than
Ski 58% 63%
Push 72% 95%
Pull 62% 73%
BBJ 71% 80%
Row 79% 32%
Carry 61% 98%
Lunges 89% 74%
Wall balls 92% 95%
Roxzone 94% 56%
Runs 83% 35%

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

Part by part

Part Markus Nicolas
SkiErg 58% 63%
Sled push 72% 95%
Sled pull 62% 73%
Burpee broad jump 71% 80%
Row 79% 32%
Farmers carry 61% 98%
Sandbag lunges 89% 74%
Wall balls 92% 95%
Roxzone (moving) 94% 56%
Runs (8 km) 83% 35%

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

Markus · Cologne 2025 · Open Men1:11:02
4:184:214:092:334:174:114:254:324:314:304:251:564:303:355:294:494:31
Nicolas · Lyon 2026 · Open Men1:19:20
3:404:274:312:475:084:405:114:205:234:585:111:295:534:235:464:237:19
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.Markus · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 36:04 running, 30:26 at the stations and 4:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:49).Below, Nicolas · Lyon 2026 · Open Men: 40:43 running, 31:26 at the stations and 7:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:58).

See the numbers
Part Markus · Cologne 2025 · Open Men Nicolas · Lyon 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:18 3:40
SkiErg 4:21 4:27
Run 2 4:09 4:31
Sled push 2:33 2:47
Run 3 4:17 5:08
Sled pull 4:11 4:40
Run 4 4:25 5:11
Burpee broad jump 4:32 4:20
Run 5 4:31 5:23
Row 4:30 4:58
Run 6 4:25 5:11
Farmers carry 1:56 1:29
Run 7 4:30 5:53
Sandbag lunges 3:35 4:23
Run 8 5:29 5:46
Wall balls 4:49 4:23
Roxzone 4:31 7:19
Finish 1:11:02 1:19:20

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Markus Nicolas Gap
Karlsruhe 2026 Pro Men · 1 Oct 2026 1:21:06 1:20:59 0:07 · Nicolas faster
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