Carel vs Chris

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Carel Pretorius

1:38:34 best Open Men time · Auckland 2025
560th of 848 place in that race · 848 Open Men finishers
NZL NZL · Open Men · 2 results

Chris May

1:31:14 best Open Men time · Auckland 2026
604th of 1,138 place in that race · 1,138 Open Men finishers

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

Carel: Auckland 2025, Open Men · Chris: Auckland 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Carel and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Carel: strongest on Runs (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 7%).Chris: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 14%).

See the numbers
Part Carel: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 21% 59%
Push 37% 14%
Pull 43% 45%
BBJ 7% 56%
Row 38% 40%
Carry 40% 57%
Lunges 36% 43%
Wall balls 38% 73%
Roxzone 26% 42%
Runs 46% 42%

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

Part by part

Part Carel Chris
SkiErg 21% 59%
Sled push 37% 14%
Sled pull 43% 45%
Burpee broad jump 7% 56%
Row 38% 40%
Farmers carry 40% 57%
Sandbag lunges 36% 43%
Wall balls 38% 73%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 42%
Runs (8 km) 46% 42%

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

Carel · Auckland 2025 · Open Men1:38:34
5:354:345:123:035:365:265:329:495:495:045:482:166:046:116:037:408:52
Chris · Auckland 2026 · Open Men1:31:14
5:424:195:304:325:495:145:325:395:565:035:521:585:436:016:295:486:16
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.Carel · Auckland 2025 · Open Men: 45:39 running, 44:04 at the stations and 8:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:49).Below, Chris · Auckland 2026 · Open Men: 46:33 running, 38:34 at the stations and 6:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:01).

See the numbers
Part Carel · Auckland 2025 · Open Men Chris · Auckland 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:35 5:42
SkiErg 4:34 4:19
Run 2 5:12 5:30
Sled push 3:03 4:32
Run 3 5:36 5:49
Sled pull 5:26 5:14
Run 4 5:32 5:32
Burpee broad jump 9:49 5:39
Run 5 5:49 5:56
Row 5:04 5:03
Run 6 5:48 5:52
Farmers carry 2:16 1:58
Run 7 6:04 5:43
Sandbag lunges 6:11 6:01
Run 8 6:03 6:29
Wall balls 7:40 5:48
Roxzone 8:52 6:16
Finish 1:38:34 1:31:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Carel Chris Gap
Auckland 2025 Open Men · 1 Feb 2025 1:38:34 1:38:34 level
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