Max vs Frank

NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Max Nijland

1:49:40 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
1326th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 5 results

Frank van Polanen

1:49:22 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
1325th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers

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

Max: Ghent 2025, Open Men · Frank: Ghent 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Max and Frank sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Max: strongest on Push (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 3%).Frank: strongest on Carry (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Max: faster than Frank: faster than
Ski 5% 10%
Push 92% 59%
Pull 19% 51%
BBJ 16% 11%
Row 3% 8%
Carry 7% 64%
Lunges 60% 21%
Wall balls 23% 14%
Roxzone 8% 1%
Runs 3% 7%

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

Part by part

Part Max Frank
SkiErg 5% 10%
Sled push 92% 59%
Sled pull 19% 51%
Burpee broad jump 16% 11%
Row 3% 8%
Farmers carry 7% 64%
Sandbag lunges 60% 21%
Wall balls 23% 14%
Roxzone (moving) 8% 1%
Runs (8 km) 3% 7%

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

Max · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:49:40
5:305:057:292:228:006:057:597:1310:185:445:392:555:444:376:178:579:53
Frank · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:49:22
6:214:565:452:565:534:586:107:466:395:226:221:536:526:037:5210:0713:35
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.Max · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 56:55 running, 42:58 at the stations and 9:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:57) and the shortest the sled push (2:22).Below, Frank · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 51:55 running, 44:01 at the stations and 13:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:07).

See the numbers
Part Max · Ghent 2025 · Open Men Frank · Ghent 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:30 6:21
SkiErg 5:05 4:56
Run 2 7:29 5:45
Sled push 2:22 2:56
Run 3 8:00 5:53
Sled pull 6:05 4:58
Run 4 7:59 6:10
Burpee broad jump 7:13 7:46
Run 5 10:18 6:39
Row 5:44 5:22
Run 6 5:39 6:22
Farmers carry 2:55 1:53
Run 7 5:44 6:52
Sandbag lunges 4:37 6:03
Run 8 6:17 7:52
Wall balls 8:57 10:07
Roxzone 9:53 13:35
Finish 1:49:40 1:49:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Max Frank Gap
Ghent 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:49:40 1:49:22 0:18 · Frank faster
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