Markus vs Martin

GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

Markus Welsch

1:21:39 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
715th of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Martin McRobbie

1:21:38 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
713th of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers

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

Markus: Cologne 2025, Open Men · Martin: Cologne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Markus and Martin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Markus: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 22%).Martin: strongest on BBJ (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 14%).

See the numbers
Part Markus: faster than Martin: faster than
Ski 60% 47%
Push 99% 90%
Pull 89% 14%
BBJ 22% 95%
Row 84% 76%
Carry 89% 39%
Lunges 48% 74%
Wall balls 79% 48%
Roxzone 60% 20%
Runs 48% 68%

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

Part by part

Part Markus Martin
SkiErg 60% 47%
Sled push 99% 90%
Sled pull 89% 14%
Burpee broad jump 22% 95%
Row 84% 76%
Farmers carry 89% 39%
Sandbag lunges 48% 74%
Wall balls 79% 48%
Roxzone (moving) 60% 20%
Runs (8 km) 48% 68%

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

Markus · Cologne 2025 · Open Men1:21:39
5:064:204:401:545:013:305:056:505:134:275:141:395:185:096:115:356:27
Martin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men1:21:38
4:324:264:152:144:505:414:382:444:474:324:362:114:494:196:107:079:47
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.Markus · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 41:48 running, 33:23 at the stations and 6:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:50).Below, Martin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 38:37 running, 33:13 at the stations and 9:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:07).

See the numbers
Part Markus · Cologne 2025 · Open Men Martin · Cologne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:06 4:32
SkiErg 4:20 4:26
Run 2 4:40 4:15
Sled push 1:54 2:14
Run 3 5:01 4:50
Sled pull 3:30 5:41
Run 4 5:05 4:38
Burpee broad jump 6:50 2:44
Run 5 5:13 4:47
Row 4:27 4:32
Run 6 5:14 4:36
Farmers carry 1:39 2:11
Run 7 5:18 4:49
Sandbag lunges 5:09 4:19
Run 8 6:11 6:10
Wall balls 5:35 7:07
Roxzone 6:27 9:47
Finish 1:21:39 1:21:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Markus Martin Gap
Cologne 2025 Open Men · 10 Apr 2025 1:21:39 1:21:38 0:01 · Martin faster
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