Abraham vs Samuel

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Abraham Spies

1:32:15 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
329th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Samuel Spofana

1:29:50 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
260th of 717 place in that race · 717 Open Men finishers

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

Abraham: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Samuel: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Abraham and Samuel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Abraham: strongest on Runs (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 27%).Samuel: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 28%).

See the numbers
Part Abraham: faster than Samuel: faster than
Ski 30% 49%
Push 61% 48%
Pull 30% 42%
BBJ 47% 44%
Row 45% 66%
Carry 62% 47%
Lunges 40% 63%
Wall balls 27% 79%
Roxzone 43% 28%
Runs 75% 76%

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

Part by part

Part Abraham Samuel
SkiErg 30% 49%
Sled push 61% 48%
Sled pull 30% 42%
Burpee broad jump 47% 44%
Row 45% 66%
Farmers carry 62% 47%
Sandbag lunges 40% 63%
Wall balls 27% 79%
Roxzone (moving) 43% 28%
Runs (8 km) 75% 76%

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

Abraham · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:32:15
3:194:404:252:525:526:125:176:085:405:065:252:024:575:566:2910:087:54
Samuel · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:29:50
3:584:335:083:135:255:495:246:475:314:535:402:205:195:206:076:098:20
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.Abraham · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 41:25 running, 43:04 at the stations and 7:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:08).Below, Samuel · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 42:33 running, 39:04 at the stations and 8:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:47).

See the numbers
Part Abraham · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Samuel · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:19 3:58
SkiErg 4:40 4:33
Run 2 4:25 5:08
Sled push 2:52 3:13
Run 3 5:52 5:25
Sled pull 6:12 5:49
Run 4 5:17 5:24
Burpee broad jump 6:08 6:47
Run 5 5:40 5:31
Row 5:06 4:53
Run 6 5:25 5:40
Farmers carry 2:02 2:20
Run 7 4:57 5:19
Sandbag lunges 5:56 5:20
Run 8 6:29 6:07
Wall balls 10:08 6:09
Roxzone 7:54 8:20
Finish 1:32:15 1:29:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Abraham Samuel Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:32:15 1:32:21 0:06 · Abraham faster
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