Ross vs Sam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Ross Taylor

1:12:10 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1086th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Sam Sykes

1:15:39 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
722nd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Ross: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Sam: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ross and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ross: strongest on BBJ (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 54%).Sam: strongest on BBJ (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 49%).

See the numbers
Part Ross: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 60% 49%
Push 85% 73%
Pull 54% 85%
BBJ 96% 87%
Row 76% 68%
Carry 84% 59%
Lunges 63% 82%
Wall balls 57% 52%
Roxzone 83% 60%
Runs 80% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Ross Sam
SkiErg 60% 49%
Sled push 85% 73%
Sled pull 54% 85%
Burpee broad jump 96% 87%
Row 76% 68%
Farmers carry 84% 59%
Sandbag lunges 63% 82%
Wall balls 57% 52%
Roxzone (moving) 83% 60%
Runs (8 km) 80% 72%

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

Ross · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:12:10
2:344:453:092:203:494:413:413:173:484:413:271:403:394:445:166:539:52
Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:15:39
2:404:284:322:194:323:514:313:544:374:374:302:004:364:125:206:278:41
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.Ross · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 29:23 running, 33:00 at the stations and 9:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:53).Below, Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 35:18 running, 31:49 at the stations and 8:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:27).

See the numbers
Part Ross · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Sam · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:34 2:40
SkiErg 4:45 4:28
Run 2 3:09 4:32
Sled push 2:20 2:19
Run 3 3:49 4:32
Sled pull 4:41 3:51
Run 4 3:41 4:31
Burpee broad jump 3:17 3:54
Run 5 3:48 4:37
Row 4:41 4:37
Run 6 3:27 4:30
Farmers carry 1:40 2:00
Run 7 3:39 4:36
Sandbag lunges 4:44 4:12
Run 8 5:16 5:20
Wall balls 6:53 6:27
Roxzone 9:52 8:41
Finish 1:12:10 1:15:39

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ross Sam Gap
Brisbane 2026 Pro Men · 9 Apr 2026 1:27:28 1:27:25 0:03 · Sam faster
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