Kial vs Jacob

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Kial McDonald

2:09:15 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2643rd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Jacob Holmes

2:09:05 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2642nd of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Kial: Cardiff 2026, Open Men · Jacob: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kial and Jacob sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kial: strongest on Carry (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 1%).Jacob: strongest on Lunges (faster than 11% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 3%).

See the numbers
Part Kial: faster than Jacob: faster than
Ski 14% 4%
Push 5% 3%
Pull 45% 3%
BBJ 25% 3%
Row 60% 3%
Carry 65% 10%
Lunges 44% 11%
Wall balls 23% 7%
Roxzone 4% 3%
Runs 1% 3%

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

Part by part

Part Kial Jacob
SkiErg 14% 4%
Sled push 5% 3%
Sled pull 45% 3%
Burpee broad jump 25% 3%
Row 60% 3%
Farmers carry 65% 10%
Sandbag lunges 44% 11%
Wall balls 23% 7%
Roxzone (moving) 4% 3%
Runs (8 km) 1% 3%

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

Kial · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men2:09:15
7:124:597:114:4311:314:3111:147:1711:304:449:182:297:505:1211:578:548:47
Jacob · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men2:09:05
6:515:216:204:588:417:338:0111:258:256:037:223:537:087:208:5711:439:07
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.Kial · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 1:17:43 running, 42:49 at the stations and 8:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:54).Below, Jacob · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 1:01:45 running, 58:16 at the stations and 9:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:43).

See the numbers
Part Kial · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men Jacob · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 7:12 6:51
SkiErg 4:59 5:21
Run 2 7:11 6:20
Sled push 4:43 4:58
Run 3 11:31 8:41
Sled pull 4:31 7:33
Run 4 11:14 8:01
Burpee broad jump 7:17 11:25
Run 5 11:30 8:25
Row 4:44 6:03
Run 6 9:18 7:22
Farmers carry 2:29 3:53
Run 7 7:50 7:08
Sandbag lunges 5:12 7:20
Run 8 11:57 8:57
Wall balls 8:54 11:43
Roxzone 8:47 9:07
Finish 2:09:15 2:09:05

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kial Jacob Gap
Cardiff 2026 Open Men · 29 Apr 2026 2:09:15 2:09:05 0:10 · Jacob faster
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