Matthew vs Joel

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Matthew Cowan

1:19:39 best Open Men time · Perth 2026
358th of 1,089 place in that race · 1,089 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Joel Griffiths

1:19:41 best Open Men time · Perth 2026
359th of 1,089 place in that race · 1,089 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Perth 2026, Open Men · Joel: Perth 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Joel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Runs (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 36%).Joel: strongest on Ski (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 56%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Joel: faster than
Ski 74% 91%
Push 54% 78%
Pull 36% 56%
BBJ 49% 67%
Row 44% 67%
Carry 51% 75%
Lunges 56% 63%
Wall balls 60% 65%
Roxzone 66% 70%
Runs 75% 59%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Joel
SkiErg 74% 91%
Sled push 54% 78%
Sled pull 36% 56%
Burpee broad jump 49% 67%
Row 44% 67%
Farmers carry 51% 75%
Sandbag lunges 56% 63%
Wall balls 60% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 66% 70%
Runs (8 km) 75% 59%

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

Matthew · Perth 2026 · Open Men1:19:39
3:234:144:182:535:195:025:085:285:234:555:172:434:405:194:306:174:54
Joel · Perth 2026 · Open Men1:19:41
3:434:047:172:305:104:235:134:465:124:405:162:224:445:054:296:054:46
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.Matthew · Perth 2026 · Open Men: 37:58 running, 36:51 at the stations and 4:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:17).Below, Joel · Perth 2026 · Open Men: 41:04 running, 33:55 at the stations and 4:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:05).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Perth 2026 · Open Men Joel · Perth 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:23 3:43
SkiErg 4:14 4:04
Run 2 4:18 7:17
Sled push 2:53 2:30
Run 3 5:19 5:10
Sled pull 5:02 4:23
Run 4 5:08 5:13
Burpee broad jump 5:28 4:46
Run 5 5:23 5:12
Row 4:55 4:40
Run 6 5:17 5:16
Farmers carry 2:43 2:22
Run 7 4:40 4:44
Sandbag lunges 5:19 5:05
Run 8 4:30 4:29
Wall balls 6:17 6:05
Roxzone 4:54 4:46
Finish 1:19:39 1:19:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Joel Gap
Perth 2026 Open Men · 21 Aug 2026 1:19:39 1:19:41 0:02 · Matthew faster
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