Ilian vs Merijn

NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Ilian Kats

1:32:51 best Open Men time · Utrecht 2025
1168th of 1,912 place in that race · 1,912 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Merijn van Halm

1:29:46 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2024
1308th of 2,198 place in that race · 2,198 Open Men finishers

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

Ilian: Utrecht 2025, Open Men · Merijn: Amsterdam 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ilian and Merijn sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ilian: strongest on Push (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 29%).Merijn: strongest on Carry (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 8%).

See the numbers
Part Ilian: faster than Merijn: faster than
Ski 30% 69%
Push 89% 39%
Pull 46% 46%
BBJ 40% 8%
Row 47% 54%
Carry 42% 70%
Lunges 69% 46%
Wall balls 47% 35%
Roxzone 29% 45%
Runs 29% 48%

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

Part by part

Part Ilian Merijn
SkiErg 30% 69%
Sled push 89% 39%
Sled pull 46% 46%
Burpee broad jump 40% 8%
Row 47% 54%
Farmers carry 42% 70%
Sandbag lunges 69% 46%
Wall balls 47% 35%
Roxzone (moving) 29% 45%
Runs (8 km) 29% 48%

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

Ilian · Utrecht 2025 · Open Men1:32:51
4:514:405:062:505:535:105:556:116:104:516:212:206:164:347:307:326:48
Merijn · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men1:29:46
3:404:175:302:315:564:295:458:475:554:455:391:475:405:056:426:556:30
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.Ilian · Utrecht 2025 · Open Men: 48:02 running, 38:08 at the stations and 6:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:32).Below, Merijn · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men: 44:47 running, 38:35 at the stations and 6:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:47).

See the numbers
Part Ilian · Utrecht 2025 · Open Men Merijn · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:51 3:40
SkiErg 4:40 4:17
Run 2 5:06 5:30
Sled push 2:50 2:31
Run 3 5:53 5:56
Sled pull 5:10 4:29
Run 4 5:55 5:45
Burpee broad jump 6:11 8:47
Run 5 6:10 5:55
Row 4:51 4:45
Run 6 6:21 5:39
Farmers carry 2:20 1:47
Run 7 6:16 5:40
Sandbag lunges 4:34 5:05
Run 8 7:30 6:42
Wall balls 7:32 6:55
Roxzone 6:48 6:30
Finish 1:32:51 1:29:46

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ilian Merijn Gap
Utrecht 2025 Open Men · 28 Nov 2025 1:32:51 1:32:53 0:02 · Ilian faster
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