Nigel vs Daniel

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 · 5 results

Daniel Smith

1:25:50 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2035th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Nigel: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Daniel: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nigel and Daniel 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%).Daniel: strongest on Push (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 29%).

See the numbers
Part Nigel: faster than Daniel: faster than
Ski 10% 43%
Push 3% 79%
Pull 10% 62%
BBJ 4% 29%
Row 17% 69%
Carry 8% 29%
Lunges 3% 29%
Wall balls 3% 73%
Roxzone 16% 59%
Runs 5% 38%

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

Part by part

Part Nigel Daniel
SkiErg 10% 43%
Sled push 3% 79%
Sled pull 10% 62%
Burpee broad jump 4% 29%
Row 17% 69%
Farmers carry 8% 29%
Sandbag lunges 3% 29%
Wall balls 3% 73%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 59%
Runs (8 km) 5% 38%

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
Daniel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:25:50
5:344:334:412:365:064:425:176:405:284:385:182:305:216:015:176:006:16
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.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, Daniel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 42:02 running, 37:40 at the stations and 6:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:40).

See the numbers
Part Nigel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Daniel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:13 5:34
SkiErg 5:00 4:33
Run 2 6:09 4:41
Sled push 5:48 2:36
Run 3 6:29 5:06
Sled pull 7:03 4:42
Run 4 6:33 5:17
Burpee broad jump 10:27 6:40
Run 5 7:04 5:28
Row 5:16 4:38
Run 6 6:59 5:18
Farmers carry 3:12 2:30
Run 7 7:11 5:21
Sandbag lunges 10:05 6:01
Run 8 7:38 5:17
Wall balls 15:34 6:00
Roxzone 8:47 6:16
Finish 2:06:20 1:25:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nigel Daniel Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:06:20 1:25:50 40:30 · Daniel faster
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