Gene vs Cliff

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Gene Gurling

1:37:13 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
2163rd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 3 results

Cliff Kovacs

1:25:30 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1527th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Gene: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Cliff: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Gene and Cliff sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gene: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 53% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 9%).Cliff: strongest on Row (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 13%).

See the numbers
Part Gene: faster than Cliff: faster than
Ski 9% 46%
Push 51% 28%
Pull 43% 65%
BBJ 17% 71%
Row 10% 76%
Carry 39% 68%
Lunges 22% 14%
Wall balls 53% 13%
Roxzone 34% 59%
Runs 17% 63%

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

Part by part

Part Gene Cliff
SkiErg 9% 46%
Sled push 51% 28%
Sled pull 43% 65%
Burpee broad jump 17% 71%
Row 10% 76%
Farmers carry 39% 68%
Sandbag lunges 22% 14%
Wall balls 53% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 34% 59%
Runs (8 km) 17% 63%

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

Gene · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:37:13
3:204:595:452:386:145:016:187:106:125:265:482:145:536:357:186:2510:05
Cliff · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:25:30
2:324:294:503:084:414:254:374:334:544:324:381:544:307:175:5510:008:44
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.Gene · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 46:47 running, 40:28 at the stations and 10:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:10).Below, Cliff · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 36:37 running, 40:17 at the stations and 8:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:00).

See the numbers
Part Gene · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Cliff · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:20 2:32
SkiErg 4:59 4:29
Run 2 5:45 4:50
Sled push 2:38 3:08
Run 3 6:14 4:41
Sled pull 5:01 4:25
Run 4 6:18 4:37
Burpee broad jump 7:10 4:33
Run 5 6:12 4:54
Row 5:26 4:32
Run 6 5:48 4:38
Farmers carry 2:14 1:54
Run 7 5:53 4:30
Sandbag lunges 6:35 7:17
Run 8 7:18 5:55
Wall balls 6:25 10:00
Roxzone 10:05 8:44
Finish 1:37:13 1:25:30

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Gene Cliff Gap
Brisbane 2026 Open Men · 9 Apr 2026 1:43:17 1:43:09 0:08 · Cliff faster
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:37:13 1:25:30 11:43 · Cliff faster
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