Nigel vs Damian

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Nigel Cox

2:06:20 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3808th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Damian Johnson

2:05:01 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
2439th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers

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

Nigel: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Damian: Manchester 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nigel and Damian sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nigel: strongest on Row (faster than 17% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 3%).Damian: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 33% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 3%).

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Part Nigel: faster than Damian: faster than
Ski 10% 22%
Push 3% 12%
Pull 10% 4%
BBJ 4% 3%
Row 17% 5%
Carry 8% 4%
Lunges 3% 10%
Wall balls 3% 33%
Roxzone 16% 10%
Runs 5% 3%

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

Part by part

Part Nigel Damian
SkiErg 10% 22%
Sled push 3% 12%
Sled pull 10% 4%
Burpee broad jump 4% 3%
Row 17% 5%
Farmers carry 8% 4%
Sandbag lunges 3% 10%
Wall balls 3% 33%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 10%
Runs (8 km) 5% 3%

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

Nigel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:06:20
7:135:006:095:486:297:036:3310:277:045:166:593:127:1110:057:3815:348:47
Damian · Manchester 2026 · Open Men2:05:01
4:434:397:093:277:567:108:0811:038:405:3911:153:368:268:007:178:169:45
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.Nigel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 55:16 running, 1:02:25 at the stations and 8:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:34).Below, Damian · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 1:03:34 running, 51:50 at the stations and 9:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (11:03) and the shortest the sled push (3:27).

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Part Nigel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Damian · Manchester 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:13 4:43
SkiErg 5:00 4:39
Run 2 6:09 7:09
Sled push 5:48 3:27
Run 3 6:29 7:56
Sled pull 7:03 7:10
Run 4 6:33 8:08
Burpee broad jump 10:27 11:03
Run 5 7:04 8:40
Row 5:16 5:39
Run 6 6:59 11:15
Farmers carry 3:12 3:36
Run 7 7:11 8:26
Sandbag lunges 10:05 8:00
Run 8 7:38 7:17
Wall balls 15:34 8:16
Roxzone 8:47 9:45
Finish 2:06:20 2:05:01

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nigel Damian Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:06:20 2:06:20 level
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