Ronald vs Arnold

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Ronald Tait

1:38:08 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
380th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Arnold Heymans

1:38:32 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
382nd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Ronald: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Arnold: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ronald and Arnold sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ronald: strongest on Pull (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 26%).Arnold: strongest on Ski (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 21%).

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Part Ronald: faster than Arnold: faster than
Ski 44% 77%
Push 26% 69%
Pull 67% 48%
BBJ 56% 21%
Row 52% 65%
Carry 44% 60%
Lunges 44% 50%
Wall balls 32% 24%
Roxzone 28% 54%
Runs 42% 42%

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

Part by part

Part Ronald Arnold
SkiErg 44% 77%
Sled push 26% 69%
Sled pull 67% 48%
Burpee broad jump 56% 21%
Row 52% 65%
Farmers carry 44% 60%
Sandbag lunges 44% 50%
Wall balls 32% 24%
Roxzone (moving) 28% 54%
Runs (8 km) 42% 42%

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

Ronald · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:38:08
4:024:365:403:226:044:276:325:537:174:566:372:286:016:196:459:048:13
Arnold · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:38:32
4:284:186:132:336:224:566:158:076:254:476:112:156:155:566:5210:246:24
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.Ronald · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 48:58 running, 41:05 at the stations and 8:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:04).Below, Arnold · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 49:02 running, 43:16 at the stations and 6:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:24).

See the numbers
Part Ronald · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Arnold · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:02 4:28
SkiErg 4:36 4:18
Run 2 5:40 6:13
Sled push 3:22 2:33
Run 3 6:04 6:22
Sled pull 4:27 4:56
Run 4 6:32 6:15
Burpee broad jump 5:53 8:07
Run 5 7:17 6:25
Row 4:56 4:47
Run 6 6:37 6:11
Farmers carry 2:28 2:15
Run 7 6:01 6:15
Sandbag lunges 6:19 5:56
Run 8 6:45 6:52
Wall balls 9:04 10:24
Roxzone 8:13 6:24
Finish 1:38:08 1:38:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ronald Arnold Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:38:08 1:38:32 0:24 · Ronald faster
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