Melissa vs Meryka

CAN CAN · Open Women · 1 result

Melissa El-Azzi

1:44:34 best Open Women time · Ottawa 2026
813th of 1,316 place in that race · 1,316 Open Women finishers
CAN CAN · Open Women · 2 results

Meryka Bessette

1:44:37 best Open Women time · Ottawa 2026
815th of 1,316 place in that race · 1,316 Open Women finishers

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

Melissa: Ottawa 2026, Open Women · Meryka: Ottawa 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Melissa and Meryka sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melissa: strongest on Push (faster than 61% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 17%).Meryka: strongest on Lunges (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 21%).

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Part Melissa: faster than Meryka: faster than
Ski 23% 70%
Push 61% 74%
Pull 23% 60%
BBJ 54% 60%
Row 40% 67%
Carry 40% 32%
Lunges 41% 79%
Wall balls 17% 60%
Roxzone 56% 39%
Runs 41% 21%

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

Part by part

Part Melissa Meryka
SkiErg 23% 70%
Sled push 61% 74%
Sled pull 23% 60%
Burpee broad jump 54% 60%
Row 40% 67%
Farmers carry 40% 32%
Sandbag lunges 41% 79%
Wall balls 17% 60%
Roxzone (moving) 56% 39%
Runs (8 km) 41% 21%

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

Melissa · Ottawa 2026 · Open Women1:44:34
6:035:405:532:396:227:076:236:376:475:326:542:336:435:517:239:386:36
Meryka · Ottawa 2026 · Open Women1:44:37
5:285:028:142:277:495:337:336:217:245:137:092:427:104:278:226:207:30
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.Melissa · Ottawa 2026 · Open Women: 52:28 running, 45:37 at the stations and 6:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:38).Below, Meryka · Ottawa 2026 · Open Women: 59:10 running, 38:05 at the stations and 7:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:21) and the shortest the sled push (2:27).

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Part Melissa · Ottawa 2026 · Open Women Meryka · Ottawa 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 6:03 5:28
SkiErg 5:40 5:02
Run 2 5:53 8:14
Sled push 2:39 2:27
Run 3 6:22 7:49
Sled pull 7:07 5:33
Run 4 6:23 7:33
Burpee broad jump 6:37 6:21
Run 5 6:47 7:24
Row 5:32 5:13
Run 6 6:54 7:09
Farmers carry 2:33 2:42
Run 7 6:43 7:10
Sandbag lunges 5:51 4:27
Run 8 7:23 8:22
Wall balls 9:38 6:20
Roxzone 6:36 7:30
Finish 1:44:34 1:44:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Melissa Meryka Gap
Ottawa 2026 Open Women · 14 May 2026 1:44:34 1:44:37 0:03 · Melissa faster
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