Michael vs Eric

NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Michael de Vries

1:37:16 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2025
1210th of 1,541 place in that race · 1,541 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 5 results

Eric Herrmann-Meiser

1:37:18 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
1435th of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Heerenveen 2025, Open Men · Eric: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Eric 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 88% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 13%).Eric: strongest on Ski (faster than 66% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 8%).

See the numbers
Part Michael: faster than Eric: faster than
Ski 68% 66%
Push 50% 15%
Pull 24% 32%
BBJ 23% 9%
Row 66% 62%
Carry 88% 25%
Lunges 30% 8%
Wall balls 27% 23%
Roxzone 25% 22%
Runs 13% 28%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Eric
SkiErg 68% 66%
Sled push 50% 15%
Sled pull 24% 32%
Burpee broad jump 23% 9%
Row 66% 62%
Farmers carry 88% 25%
Sandbag lunges 30% 8%
Wall balls 27% 23%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 22%
Runs (8 km) 13% 28%

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 · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men1:37:16
4:454:185:082:475:535:415:557:076:034:416:031:406:215:527:487:469:36
Eric · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:37:18
5:054:205:173:275:174:345:318:295:334:395:322:235:177:416:068:399:35
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 · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men: 47:56 running, 39:52 at the stations and 9:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:46).Below, Eric · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 43:37 running, 44:11 at the stations and 9:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:39).

See the numbers
Part Michael · Heerenveen 2025 · Open Men Eric · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:45 5:05
SkiErg 4:18 4:20
Run 2 5:08 5:17
Sled push 2:47 3:27
Run 3 5:53 5:17
Sled pull 5:41 4:34
Run 4 5:55 5:31
Burpee broad jump 7:07 8:29
Run 5 6:03 5:33
Row 4:41 4:39
Run 6 6:03 5:32
Farmers carry 1:40 2:23
Run 7 6:21 5:17
Sandbag lunges 5:52 7:41
Run 8 7:48 6:06
Wall balls 7:46 8:39
Roxzone 9:36 9:35
Finish 1:37:16 1:37:18

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Eric Gap
Heerenveen 2026 Open Men · 17 May 2026 1:37:17 1:37:18 0:01 · Michael faster
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