James vs Yimu

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

James King

1:32:58 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
2154th of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers
CHN CHN · Open Men · 9 results

Yimu Yang

1:26:52 best Open Men time · Paris Grand Palais 2026
1552nd of 2,547 place in that race · 2,547 Open Men finishers

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

James: Berlin 2025, Open Men · Yimu: Paris Grand Palais 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Yimu sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Row (faster than 37% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).Yimu: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 21%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than Yimu: faster than
Ski 4% 35%
Push 30% 43%
Pull 36% 48%
BBJ 15% 57%
Row 37% 44%
Carry 3% 21%
Lunges 13% 51%
Wall balls 15% 82%
Roxzone 27% 38%
Runs 25% 22%

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

Part by part

Part James Yimu
SkiErg 4% 35%
Sled push 30% 43%
Sled pull 36% 48%
Burpee broad jump 15% 57%
Row 37% 44%
Farmers carry 3% 21%
Sandbag lunges 13% 51%
Wall balls 15% 82%
Roxzone (moving) 27% 38%
Runs (8 km) 25% 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

James · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:32:58
4:265:004:313:064:444:374:457:124:554:474:513:274:596:516:538:319:32
Yimu · Paris Grand Palais 2026 · Open Men1:26:52
5:264:425:023:035:214:125:235:185:434:485:472:455:475:065:185:108:10
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.James · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 40:04 running, 43:31 at the stations and 9:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:31) and the shortest the sled push (3:06).Below, Yimu · Paris Grand Palais 2026 · Open Men: 43:46 running, 35:04 at the stations and 8:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:18).

See the numbers
Part James · Berlin 2025 · Open Men Yimu · Paris Grand Palais 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:26 5:26
SkiErg 5:00 4:42
Run 2 4:31 5:02
Sled push 3:06 3:03
Run 3 4:44 5:21
Sled pull 4:37 4:12
Run 4 4:45 5:23
Burpee broad jump 7:12 5:18
Run 5 4:55 5:43
Row 4:47 4:48
Run 6 4:51 5:47
Farmers carry 3:27 2:45
Run 7 4:59 5:47
Sandbag lunges 6:51 5:06
Run 8 6:53 5:18
Wall balls 8:31 5:10
Roxzone 9:32 8:10
Finish 1:32:58 1:26:52

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Yimu Gap
Geneva 2026 Open Men · 9 Oct 2026 1:46:43 1:46:49 0:06 · James faster
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