Stefan vs Brendan

GER GER · Open Men · 4 results

Stefan Mertens

1:21:58 best Open Men time · Frankfurt 2024
641st of 1,480 place in that race · 1,480 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

Brendan Becker

1:22:08 best Open Men time · Berlin 2026
1644th of 4,143 place in that race · 4,143 Open Men finishers

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

Stefan: Frankfurt 2024, Open Men · Brendan: Berlin 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stefan and Brendan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stefan: strongest on Pull (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 39%).Brendan: strongest on Row (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 23%).

See the numbers
Part Stefan: faster than Brendan: faster than
Ski 83% 56%
Push 69% 36%
Pull 85% 23%
BBJ 56% 76%
Row 73% 87%
Carry 70% 46%
Lunges 42% 71%
Wall balls 73% 73%
Roxzone 71% 46%
Runs 39% 59%

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

Part by part

Part Stefan Brendan
SkiErg 83% 56%
Sled push 69% 36%
Sled pull 85% 23%
Burpee broad jump 56% 76%
Row 73% 87%
Farmers carry 70% 46%
Sandbag lunges 42% 71%
Wall balls 73% 73%
Roxzone (moving) 71% 46%
Runs (8 km) 39% 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

Stefan · Frankfurt 2024 · Open Men1:21:58
4:164:225:002:315:183:525:215:085:594:305:341:455:385:096:195:285:56
Brendan · Berlin 2026 · Open Men1:22:08
3:284:293:493:374:085:113:584:363:574:273:522:203:524:385:515:4814:16
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.Stefan · Frankfurt 2024 · Open Men: 43:25 running, 32:46 at the stations and 5:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:28).Below, Brendan · Berlin 2026 · Open Men: 32:56 running, 35:05 at the stations and 14:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:48).

See the numbers
Part Stefan · Frankfurt 2024 · Open Men Brendan · Berlin 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:16 3:28
SkiErg 4:22 4:29
Run 2 5:00 3:49
Sled push 2:31 3:37
Run 3 5:18 4:08
Sled pull 3:52 5:11
Run 4 5:21 3:58
Burpee broad jump 5:08 4:36
Run 5 5:59 3:57
Row 4:30 4:27
Run 6 5:34 3:52
Farmers carry 1:45 2:20
Run 7 5:38 3:52
Sandbag lunges 5:09 4:38
Run 8 6:19 5:51
Wall balls 5:28 5:48
Roxzone 5:56 14:16
Finish 1:21:58 1:22:08

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stefan Brendan Gap
Frankfurt 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:27:03 1:27:02 0:01 · Brendan faster
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