Lukas vs Merlin

GER GER · Open Men · 1 result

Lukas Pinger

2:01:23 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
1759th of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Merlin Bittlinger

2:01:33 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
1761st of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers

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

Lukas: Cologne 2025, Open Men · Merlin: Cologne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Lukas and Merlin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Lukas: strongest on Carry (faster than 22% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 2%).Merlin: strongest on Row (faster than 51% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).

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Part Lukas: faster than Merlin: faster than
Ski 2% 23%
Push 20% 21%
Pull 3% 13%
BBJ 4% 39%
Row 15% 51%
Carry 22% 7%
Lunges 8% 19%
Wall balls 4% 1%
Roxzone 10% 1%
Runs 7% 15%

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

Part by part

Part Lukas Merlin
SkiErg 2% 23%
Sled push 20% 21%
Sled pull 3% 13%
Burpee broad jump 4% 39%
Row 15% 51%
Farmers carry 22% 7%
Sandbag lunges 8% 19%
Wall balls 4% 1%
Roxzone (moving) 10% 1%
Runs (8 km) 7% 15%

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

Lukas · Cologne 2025 · Open Men2:01:23
6:085:235:353:256:077:086:499:596:295:146:222:297:047:379:3114:0212:01
Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men2:01:33
5:144:385:183:245:525:456:085:546:084:455:573:015:456:308:4017:4820:46
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.Lukas · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 54:05 running, 55:16 at the stations and 12:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:02).Below, Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 49:02 running, 51:45 at the stations and 20:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (17:48).

See the numbers
Part Lukas · Cologne 2025 · Open Men Merlin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:08 5:14
SkiErg 5:23 4:38
Run 2 5:35 5:18
Sled push 3:25 3:24
Run 3 6:07 5:52
Sled pull 7:08 5:45
Run 4 6:49 6:08
Burpee broad jump 9:59 5:54
Run 5 6:29 6:08
Row 5:14 4:45
Run 6 6:22 5:57
Farmers carry 2:29 3:01
Run 7 7:04 5:45
Sandbag lunges 7:37 6:30
Run 8 9:31 8:40
Wall balls 14:02 17:48
Roxzone 12:01 20:46
Finish 2:01:23 2:01:33

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Lukas Merlin Gap
Cologne 2025 Open Men · 10 Apr 2025 2:01:23 2:01:33 0:10 · Lukas faster
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