Ben vs Stuart

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Ben Smith

1:09:08 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
296th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Stuart Barber

1:09:43 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
767th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: Manchester 2026, Open Men · Stuart: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ben and Stuart sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ben: strongest on Runs (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 56%).Stuart: strongest on Pull (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 48%).

See the numbers
Part Ben: faster than Stuart: faster than
Ski 63% 77%
Push 69% 48%
Pull 81% 97%
BBJ 77% 90%
Row 56% 93%
Carry 58% 83%
Lunges 84% 82%
Wall balls 82% 93%
Roxzone 76% 85%
Runs 91% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Stuart
SkiErg 63% 77%
Sled push 69% 48%
Sled pull 81% 97%
Burpee broad jump 77% 90%
Row 56% 93%
Farmers carry 58% 83%
Sandbag lunges 84% 82%
Wall balls 82% 93%
Roxzone (moving) 76% 85%
Runs (8 km) 91% 72%

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

Ben · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:09:08
3:034:184:192:294:323:424:344:174:404:414:282:044:314:103:515:174:20
Stuart · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:09:43
3:114:363:372:503:313:253:363:473:434:273:441:413:474:085:194:469:44
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.Ben · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 33:59 running, 30:58 at the stations and 4:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:17).Below, Stuart · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 30:28 running, 29:40 at the stations and 9:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:46).

See the numbers
Part Ben · Manchester 2026 · Open Men Stuart · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:03 3:11
SkiErg 4:18 4:36
Run 2 4:19 3:37
Sled push 2:29 2:50
Run 3 4:32 3:31
Sled pull 3:42 3:25
Run 4 4:34 3:36
Burpee broad jump 4:17 3:47
Run 5 4:40 3:43
Row 4:41 4:27
Run 6 4:28 3:44
Farmers carry 2:04 1:41
Run 7 4:31 3:47
Sandbag lunges 4:10 4:08
Run 8 3:51 5:19
Wall balls 5:17 4:46
Roxzone 4:20 9:44
Finish 1:09:08 1:09:43

Head to head: 4 races they both ran

Race Ben Stuart Gap
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 2:09:31 1:10:29 59:02 · Stuart faster
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:10:28 1:10:29 0:01 · Ben faster
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:12:37 1:14:40 2:03 · Ben faster
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:19:08 1:14:40 4:28 · Stuart faster
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