Christopher vs Michael

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Christopher Brown

2:25:58 best Open Men time · Atlanta 2025
1220th of 1,248 place in that race · 1,248 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Best

2:32:41 best Open Men time · Phoenix 2026
1538th of 1,563 place in that race · 1,563 Open Men finishers

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

Christopher: Atlanta 2025, Open Men · Michael: Phoenix 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Christopher and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Christopher: strongest on Pull (faster than 19% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 0%).Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 33% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 0%).

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Part Christopher: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 0% 23%
Push 16% 27%
Pull 19% 17%
BBJ 2% 21%
Row 13% 25%
Carry 13% 33%
Lunges 4% 21%
Wall balls 12% 28%
Roxzone 4% 1%
Runs 2% 0%

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

Part by part

Part Christopher Michael
SkiErg 0% 23%
Sled push 16% 27%
Sled pull 19% 17%
Burpee broad jump 2% 21%
Row 13% 25%
Farmers carry 13% 33%
Sandbag lunges 4% 21%
Wall balls 12% 28%
Roxzone (moving) 4% 1%
Runs (8 km) 2% 0%

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

Christopher · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men2:25:58
5:136:098:003:518:166:559:0112:199:275:409:123:039:2310:0313:2911:0314:54
Michael · Phoenix 2026 · Open Men2:32:41
7:064:469:263:248:095:489:237:3416:535:189:052:1615:096:5017:268:3015:45
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.Christopher · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men: 1:12:01 running, 59:04 at the stations and 14:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (12:19).Below, Michael · Phoenix 2026 · Open Men: 1:32:36 running, 44:26 at the stations and 15:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:30).

See the numbers
Part Christopher · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men Michael · Phoenix 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:13 7:06
SkiErg 6:09 4:46
Run 2 8:00 9:26
Sled push 3:51 3:24
Run 3 8:16 8:09
Sled pull 6:55 5:48
Run 4 9:01 9:23
Burpee broad jump 12:19 7:34
Run 5 9:27 16:53
Row 5:40 5:18
Run 6 9:12 9:05
Farmers carry 3:03 2:16
Run 7 9:23 15:09
Sandbag lunges 10:03 6:50
Run 8 13:29 17:26
Wall balls 11:03 8:30
Roxzone 14:54 15:45
Finish 2:25:58 2:32:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Christopher Michael Gap
Phoenix 2026 Open Men · 30 Jan 2026 2:32:14 2:32:41 0:27 · Christopher faster
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