Willem vs Byron

RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Willem Louw

1:23:32 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
175th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 7 results

Byron Louw

1:23:23 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
174th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Willem: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Byron: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Willem and Byron sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Willem: strongest on Carry (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 39%).Byron: strongest on Carry (faster than 80% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 28%).

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Part Willem: faster than Byron: faster than
Ski 70% 78%
Push 73% 28%
Pull 61% 42%
BBJ 65% 45%
Row 41% 41%
Carry 90% 80%
Lunges 53% 61%
Wall balls 39% 76%
Roxzone 57% 70%
Runs 83% 79%

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

Part by part

Part Willem Byron
SkiErg 70% 78%
Sled push 73% 28%
Sled pull 61% 42%
Burpee broad jump 65% 45%
Row 41% 41%
Farmers carry 90% 80%
Sandbag lunges 53% 61%
Wall balls 39% 76%
Roxzone (moving) 57% 70%
Runs (8 km) 83% 79%

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

Willem · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:23:32
3:404:224:532:304:594:365:095:255:125:044:541:475:025:485:428:306:08
Byron · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:23:23
3:214:174:453:215:185:095:076:275:325:045:001:575:155:265:586:065:27
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.Willem · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 39:31 running, 38:02 at the stations and 6:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:30).Below, Byron · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 40:16 running, 37:47 at the stations and 5:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:27).

See the numbers
Part Willem · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Byron · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:40 3:21
SkiErg 4:22 4:17
Run 2 4:53 4:45
Sled push 2:30 3:21
Run 3 4:59 5:18
Sled pull 4:36 5:09
Run 4 5:09 5:07
Burpee broad jump 5:25 6:27
Run 5 5:12 5:32
Row 5:04 5:04
Run 6 4:54 5:00
Farmers carry 1:47 1:57
Run 7 5:02 5:15
Sandbag lunges 5:48 5:26
Run 8 5:42 5:58
Wall balls 8:30 6:06
Roxzone 6:08 5:27
Finish 1:23:32 1:23:23

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Willem Byron Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:23:32 1:23:23 0:09 · Byron faster
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:32:49 1:30:11 2:38 · Byron faster
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