David vs Mark

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

David Costa

1:23:51 best Open Men time · Sydney 2024
376th of 696 place in that race · 696 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Mark Ellis

1:26:11 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
1296th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers

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

David: Sydney 2024, Open Men · Mark: Sydney 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where David and Mark sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.David: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 20%).Mark: strongest on Pull (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 18%).

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Part David: faster than Mark: faster than
Ski 64% 18%
Push 70% 59%
Pull 45% 68%
BBJ 36% 39%
Row 76% 33%
Carry 20% 57%
Lunges 36% 50%
Wall balls 95% 38%
Roxzone 54% 35%
Runs 29% 31%

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

Part by part

Part David Mark
SkiErg 64% 18%
Sled push 70% 59%
Sled pull 45% 68%
Burpee broad jump 36% 39%
Row 76% 33%
Farmers carry 20% 57%
Sandbag lunges 36% 50%
Wall balls 95% 38%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 35%
Runs (8 km) 29% 31%

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

David · Sydney 2024 · Open Men1:23:51
3:464:244:562:045:084:545:055:376:024:275:162:215:555:438:574:095:14
Mark · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:26:11
4:374:374:312:144:414:084:525:495:034:495:002:054:595:187:256:579:12
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.David · Sydney 2024 · Open Men: 45:05 running, 33:40 at the stations and 5:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (5:43) and the shortest the sled push (2:04).Below, Mark · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 41:08 running, 35:57 at the stations and 9:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:57).

See the numbers
Part David · Sydney 2024 · Open Men Mark · Sydney 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:46 4:37
SkiErg 4:24 4:37
Run 2 4:56 4:31
Sled push 2:04 2:14
Run 3 5:08 4:41
Sled pull 4:54 4:08
Run 4 5:05 4:52
Burpee broad jump 5:37 5:49
Run 5 6:02 5:03
Row 4:27 4:49
Run 6 5:16 5:00
Farmers carry 2:21 2:05
Run 7 5:55 4:59
Sandbag lunges 5:43 5:18
Run 8 8:57 7:25
Wall balls 4:09 6:57
Roxzone 5:14 9:12
Finish 1:23:51 1:26:11

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race David Mark Gap
Sydney 2025 Open Men · 4 Jul 2025 1:26:10 1:26:11 0:01 · David faster
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