Nigel vs Ken

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

Ken Burvill

1:52:18 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2518th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Nigel: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Ken: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nigel and Ken 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%).Ken: strongest on Push (faster than 51% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 1%).

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Part Nigel: faster than Ken: faster than
Ski 10% 40%
Push 3% 51%
Pull 10% 47%
BBJ 4% 3%
Row 17% 22%
Carry 8% 28%
Lunges 3% 1%
Wall balls 3% 27%
Roxzone 16% 11%
Runs 5% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Nigel Ken
SkiErg 10% 40%
Sled push 3% 51%
Sled pull 10% 47%
Burpee broad jump 4% 3%
Row 17% 22%
Farmers carry 8% 28%
Sandbag lunges 3% 1%
Wall balls 3% 27%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 11%
Runs (8 km) 5% 11%

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
Ken · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:52:18
6:184:395:443:045:534:286:0011:276:165:126:553:106:2412:469:048:306:31
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, Ken · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 52:34 running, 53:17 at the stations and 6:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (12:46) and the shortest the sled push (3:04).

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Part Nigel · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Ken · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:13 6:18
SkiErg 5:00 4:39
Run 2 6:09 5:44
Sled push 5:48 3:04
Run 3 6:29 5:53
Sled pull 7:03 4:28
Run 4 6:33 6:00
Burpee broad jump 10:27 11:27
Run 5 7:04 6:16
Row 5:16 5:12
Run 6 6:59 6:55
Farmers carry 3:12 3:10
Run 7 7:11 6:24
Sandbag lunges 10:05 12:46
Run 8 7:38 9:04
Wall balls 15:34 8:30
Roxzone 8:47 6:31
Finish 2:06:20 1:52:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nigel Ken Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:06:20 2:06:18 0:02 · Ken faster
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