Gayle vs Emma

GBR GBR · Open Women · 5 results

Gayle Sheppard

1:26:20 best Open Women time · Birmingham 2024
406th of 1,410 place in that race · 1,410 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 4 results

Emma Gregson

1:29:15 best Open Women time · London ExCeL 2025
1299th of 2,921 place in that race · 2,921 Open Women finishers

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

Gayle: Birmingham 2024, Open Women · Emma: London ExCeL 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Gayle and Emma sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gayle: strongest on Lunges (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 18%).Emma: strongest on Push (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 17%).

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Part Gayle: faster than Emma: faster than
Ski 28% 62%
Push 25% 89%
Pull 18% 23%
BBJ 80% 48%
Row 59% 36%
Carry 42% 17%
Lunges 88% 39%
Wall balls 69% 19%
Roxzone 65% 80%
Runs 78% 76%

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

Part by part

Part Gayle Emma
SkiErg 28% 62%
Sled push 25% 89%
Sled pull 18% 23%
Burpee broad jump 80% 48%
Row 59% 36%
Farmers carry 42% 17%
Sandbag lunges 88% 39%
Wall balls 69% 19%
Roxzone (moving) 65% 80%
Runs (8 km) 78% 76%

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

Gayle · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women1:26:20
5:535:194:523:034:517:024:595:234:565:205:062:195:003:485:215:507:25
Emma · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women1:29:15
3:005:263:472:124:136:354:066:474:115:444:102:454:145:246:079:1911:22
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.Gayle · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women: 40:58 running, 38:04 at the stations and 7:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (7:02).Below, Emma · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women: 33:48 running, 44:11 at the stations and 11:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:19) and the shortest the sled push (2:12).

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Part Gayle · Birmingham 2024 · Open Women Emma · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 5:53 3:00
SkiErg 5:19 5:26
Run 2 4:52 3:47
Sled push 3:03 2:12
Run 3 4:51 4:13
Sled pull 7:02 6:35
Run 4 4:59 4:06
Burpee broad jump 5:23 6:47
Run 5 4:56 4:11
Row 5:20 5:44
Run 6 5:06 4:10
Farmers carry 2:19 2:45
Run 7 5:00 4:14
Sandbag lunges 3:48 5:24
Run 8 5:21 6:07
Wall balls 5:50 9:19
Roxzone 7:25 11:22
Finish 1:26:20 1:29:15

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gayle Emma Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Women · 4 Dec 2025 1:29:16 1:29:15 0:01 · Emma faster
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