Mathieu vs Ali

FRA FRA · Pro Men · 2 results

Mathieu Defarge

2:02:22 best Pro Men time · Paris 2025
409th of 410 place in that race · 410 Pro Men finishers
IRQ IRQ · Open Men · 3 results

Ali al Rafee

2:11:13 best Pro Men time · Paris Grand Palais 2026
691st of 700 place in that race · 700 Pro Men finishers

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

Mathieu: Paris 2025, Pro Men · Ali: Toulouse 2026, Open Men

Not the same division. Mathieu's race here is Pro Men and Ali's is Open Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLunges
no split
Wall balls
no split
RoxzoneRuns
MathieuAliedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Mathieu and Ali sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mathieu: strongest on Ski (faster than 14% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).Ali: strongest on Ski (faster than 40% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Mathieu: faster than Ali: faster than
Ski 14% 40%
Push 2% 34%
Pull 1% 17%
BBJ 0% 2%
Row 12% 25%
Carry 2% 30%
Lunges no split 1%
Wall balls no split 5%
Roxzone 3% 10%
Runs 1% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Mathieu Ali
SkiErg 14% 40%
Sled push 2% 34%
Sled pull 1% 17%
Burpee broad jump 0% 2%
Row 12% 25%
Farmers carry 2% 30%
Sandbag lunges — 1%
Wall balls — 5%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 10%
Runs (8 km) 1% 11%

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

Mathieu · Paris 2025 · Pro Men2:02:22
5:504:356:095:176:499:347:2914:427:574:537:224:008:0610:11
Ali · Toulouse 2026 · Open Men1:54:04
5:184:336:283:156:455:566:4110:195:484:576:082:236:1911:367:0012:108:36
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.Mathieu · Paris 2025 · Pro Men: 49:42 running, 43:01 at the stations and 10:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (14:42).Below, Ali · Toulouse 2026 · Open Men: 50:27 running, 55:09 at the stations and 8:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:10).

See the numbers
Part Mathieu · Paris 2025 · Pro Men Ali · Toulouse 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:50 5:18
SkiErg 4:35 4:33
Run 2 6:09 6:28
Sled push 5:17 3:15
Run 3 6:49 6:45
Sled pull 9:34 5:56
Run 4 7:29 6:41
Burpee broad jump 14:42 10:19
Run 5 7:57 5:48
Row 4:53 4:57
Run 6 7:22 6:08
Farmers carry 4:00 2:23
Run 7 8:06 6:19
Sandbag lunges — 11:36
Run 8 — 7:00
Wall balls — 12:10
Roxzone 10:11 8:36
Finish 2:02:22 1:54:04

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mathieu Ali Gap
Paris Grand Palais 2026 Pro Men · 27 Apr 2026 2:11:49 2:11:13 0:36 · Ali faster
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