Sam vs Brent

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Sam Armstrong

1:32:27 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1942nd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Brent Thickens

1:32:26 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1941st of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Brent: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Brent sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Push (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 11%).Brent: strongest on Row (faster than 50% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 14%).

See the numbers
Part Sam: faster than Brent: faster than
Ski 49% 22%
Push 73% 36%
Pull 21% 49%
BBJ 44% 49%
Row 36% 50%
Carry 11% 14%
Lunges 63% 25%
Wall balls 20% 28%
Roxzone 41% 39%
Runs 28% 28%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Brent
SkiErg 49% 22%
Sled push 73% 36%
Sled pull 21% 49%
Burpee broad jump 44% 49%
Row 36% 50%
Farmers carry 11% 14%
Sandbag lunges 63% 25%
Wall balls 20% 28%
Roxzone (moving) 41% 39%
Runs (8 km) 28% 28%

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

Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:32:27
3:004:285:072:195:205:565:435:335:544:565:352:585:294:516:538:559:40
Brent · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:32:26
3:114:435:112:555:194:525:305:195:304:475:332:495:496:206:587:599:48
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.Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 43:01 running, 39:56 at the stations and 9:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:55) and the shortest the sled push (2:19).Below, Brent · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 43:01 running, 39:44 at the stations and 9:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:59).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Brent · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:00 3:11
SkiErg 4:28 4:43
Run 2 5:07 5:11
Sled push 2:19 2:55
Run 3 5:20 5:19
Sled pull 5:56 4:52
Run 4 5:43 5:30
Burpee broad jump 5:33 5:19
Run 5 5:54 5:30
Row 4:56 4:47
Run 6 5:35 5:33
Farmers carry 2:58 2:49
Run 7 5:29 5:49
Sandbag lunges 4:51 6:20
Run 8 6:53 6:58
Wall balls 8:55 7:59
Roxzone 9:40 9:48
Finish 1:32:27 1:32:26

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Brent Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:32:27 1:32:26 0:01 · Brent faster
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