Matthew vs Jim

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Matthew Sands

1:10:56 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2025
202nd of 1,638 place in that race · 1,638 Open Men finishers
GGY GGY · Open Men · 10 results

Jim Elliott

1:04:42 best Open Men time · Málaga 2026
130th of 2,072 place in that race · 2,072 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Mechelen 2025, Open Men · Jim: Málaga 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Jim sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 50%).Jim: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 78%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Jim: faster than
Ski 88% 86%
Push 84% 86%
Pull 71% 99%
BBJ 70% 78%
Row 83% 80%
Carry 81% 89%
Lunges 83% 86%
Wall balls 50% 99%
Roxzone 96% 88%
Runs 91% 87%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Jim
SkiErg 88% 86%
Sled push 84% 86%
Sled pull 71% 99%
Burpee broad jump 70% 78%
Row 83% 80%
Farmers carry 81% 89%
Sandbag lunges 83% 86%
Wall balls 50% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 96% 88%
Runs (8 km) 91% 87%

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 · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men1:10:56
5:134:083:282:063:404:263:424:563:524:303:471:473:474:154:156:146:50
Jim · Málaga 2026 · Open Men1:04:42
3:484:113:532:244:002:404:094:064:214:374:151:364:173:544:133:424:44
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.Matthew · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men: 31:44 running, 32:21 at the stations and 6:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:14).Below, Jim · Málaga 2026 · Open Men: 32:56 running, 27:10 at the stations and 4:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:37).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men Jim · Málaga 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:13 3:48
SkiErg 4:08 4:11
Run 2 3:28 3:53
Sled push 2:06 2:24
Run 3 3:40 4:00
Sled pull 4:26 2:40
Run 4 3:42 4:09
Burpee broad jump 4:56 4:06
Run 5 3:52 4:21
Row 4:30 4:37
Run 6 3:47 4:15
Farmers carry 1:47 1:36
Run 7 3:47 4:17
Sandbag lunges 4:15 3:54
Run 8 4:15 4:13
Wall balls 6:14 3:42
Roxzone 6:50 4:44
Finish 1:10:56 1:04:42

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Jim Gap
Mechelen 2025 Open Men · 4 Apr 2025 1:10:56 1:10:53 0:03 · Jim faster
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