Russell vs Liam

GBR GBR · Pro Men · 5 results

Russell Pountney

1:27:00 best Pro Men time · London Olympia 2026
343rd of 445 place in that race · 445 Pro Men finishers
GBR GBR · Pro Men · 14 results

Liam Harris

1:27:29 best Pro Men time · Cardiff 2026
395th of 533 place in that race · 533 Pro Men finishers

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

Russell: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Liam: Birmingham 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Russell and Liam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Russell: strongest on Lunges (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 37%).Liam: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 32%).

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Part Russell: faster than Liam: faster than
Ski 41% 41%
Push 61% 32%
Pull 91% 66%
BBJ 72% 68%
Row 60% 75%
Carry 71% 53%
Lunges 92% 63%
Wall balls 80% 89%
Roxzone 68% 70%
Runs 37% 66%

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

Part by part

Part Russell Liam
SkiErg 41% 41%
Sled push 61% 32%
Sled pull 91% 66%
Burpee broad jump 72% 68%
Row 60% 75%
Farmers carry 71% 53%
Sandbag lunges 92% 63%
Wall balls 80% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 68% 70%
Runs (8 km) 37% 66%

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

Russell · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:20:14
5:464:344:573:025:123:495:104:435:204:435:121:545:203:435:245:405:55
Liam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:18:11
5:044:284:253:084:414:264:515:054:564:324:462:054:394:425:034:526:38
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.Russell · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 42:21 running, 32:09 at the stations and 5:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:40).Below, Liam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 38:25 running, 33:17 at the stations and 6:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:05).

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Part Russell · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Liam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 5:46 5:04
SkiErg 4:34 4:28
Run 2 4:57 4:25
Sled push 3:02 3:08
Run 3 5:12 4:41
Sled pull 3:49 4:26
Run 4 5:10 4:51
Burpee broad jump 4:43 5:05
Run 5 5:20 4:56
Row 4:43 4:32
Run 6 5:12 4:46
Farmers carry 1:54 2:05
Run 7 5:20 4:39
Sandbag lunges 3:43 4:42
Run 8 5:24 5:03
Wall balls 5:40 4:52
Roxzone 5:55 6:38
Finish 1:20:14 1:18:11

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Russell Liam Gap
Cardiff 2026 Pro Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:27:37 1:27:29 0:08 · Liam faster
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