Michael vs Erkan

SUI SUI · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Naef

2:15:19 best Open Men time · St. Gallen 2026
1051st of 1,068 place in that race · 1,068 Open Men finishers
SUI SUI · Open Men · 3 results

Erkan Mertoglu

2:05:49 best Open Men time · Bologna 2026
1782nd of 1,805 place in that race · 1,805 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: St. Gallen 2026, Open Men · Erkan: Bologna 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Erkan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 54% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 0%).Erkan: strongest on Ski (faster than 17% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).

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Part Michael: faster than Erkan: faster than
Ski 4% 17%
Push 16% 4%
Pull 14% 3%
BBJ 1% 2%
Row 11% 2%
Carry 54% 11%
Lunges 0% 3%
Wall balls 2% 1%
Roxzone 10% 2%
Runs 4% 2%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Erkan
SkiErg 4% 17%
Sled push 16% 4%
Sled pull 14% 3%
Burpee broad jump 1% 2%
Row 11% 2%
Farmers carry 54% 11%
Sandbag lunges 0% 3%
Wall balls 2% 1%
Roxzone (moving) 10% 2%
Runs (8 km) 4% 2%

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

Michael · St. Gallen 2026 · Open Men2:15:19
6:015:106:284:037:076:158:0611:517:595:207:341:597:2014:367:4116:4411:12
Erkan · Bologna 2026 · Open Men2:05:49
5:464:535:564:286:296:496:259:496:585:528:002:567:058:538:3214:5312:14
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.Michael · St. Gallen 2026 · Open Men: 58:16 running, 1:05:58 at the stations and 11:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:44).Below, Erkan · Bologna 2026 · Open Men: 55:11 running, 58:33 at the stations and 12:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:53).

See the numbers
Part Michael · St. Gallen 2026 · Open Men Erkan · Bologna 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:01 5:46
SkiErg 5:10 4:53
Run 2 6:28 5:56
Sled push 4:03 4:28
Run 3 7:07 6:29
Sled pull 6:15 6:49
Run 4 8:06 6:25
Burpee broad jump 11:51 9:49
Run 5 7:59 6:58
Row 5:20 5:52
Run 6 7:34 8:00
Farmers carry 1:59 2:56
Run 7 7:20 7:05
Sandbag lunges 14:36 8:53
Run 8 7:41 8:32
Wall balls 16:44 14:53
Roxzone 11:12 12:14
Finish 2:15:19 2:05:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Erkan Gap
St. Gallen 2026 Open Men · 16 Jan 2026 2:15:19 2:17:51 2:32 · Michael faster
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