Louw vs Samuel

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Louw Smit

1:25:47 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
233rd of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
KEN KEN · Open Men · 1 result

Samuel Ngotho

1:25:51 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
234th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Louw: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Samuel: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Louw and Samuel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Louw: strongest on Push (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 52%).Samuel: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 17%).

See the numbers
Part Louw: faster than Samuel: faster than
Ski 87% 55%
Push 94% 25%
Pull 74% 26%
BBJ 64% 63%
Row 89% 32%
Carry 89% 17%
Lunges 86% 40%
Wall balls 73% 87%
Roxzone 77% 54%
Runs 52% 84%

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

Part by part

Part Louw Samuel
SkiErg 87% 55%
Sled push 94% 25%
Sled pull 74% 26%
Burpee broad jump 64% 63%
Row 89% 32%
Farmers carry 89% 17%
Sandbag lunges 86% 40%
Wall balls 73% 87%
Roxzone (moving) 77% 54%
Runs (8 km) 52% 84%

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

Louw · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:25:47
5:304:085:282:055:564:305:515:196:344:335:441:415:354:186:356:195:49
Samuel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:25:51
5:064:254:413:444:506:254:435:255:035:204:422:474:495:565:285:257:10
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.Louw · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 47:13 running, 32:53 at the stations and 5:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:19).Below, Samuel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 39:22 running, 39:27 at the stations and 7:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (6:25).

See the numbers
Part Louw · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Samuel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:30 5:06
SkiErg 4:08 4:25
Run 2 5:28 4:41
Sled push 2:05 3:44
Run 3 5:56 4:50
Sled pull 4:30 6:25
Run 4 5:51 4:43
Burpee broad jump 5:19 5:25
Run 5 6:34 5:03
Row 4:33 5:20
Run 6 5:44 4:42
Farmers carry 1:41 2:47
Run 7 5:35 4:49
Sandbag lunges 4:18 5:56
Run 8 6:35 5:28
Wall balls 6:19 5:25
Roxzone 5:49 7:10
Finish 1:25:47 1:25:51

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Louw Samuel Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:25:47 1:25:51 0:04 · Louw faster
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