Russell vs Gary

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 · 2 results

Gary Weston

1:27:42 best Pro Men time · Cardiff 2026
399th 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 · Gary: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Russell and Gary 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%).Gary: strongest on Carry (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 34%).

See the numbers
Part Russell: faster than Gary: faster than
Ski 41% 62%
Push 61% 55%
Pull 91% 66%
BBJ 72% 40%
Row 60% 47%
Carry 71% 72%
Lunges 92% 34%
Wall balls 80% 37%
Roxzone 68% 47%
Runs 37% 62%

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

Part by part

Part Russell Gary
SkiErg 41% 62%
Sled push 61% 55%
Sled pull 91% 66%
Burpee broad jump 72% 40%
Row 60% 47%
Farmers carry 71% 72%
Sandbag lunges 92% 34%
Wall balls 80% 37%
Roxzone (moving) 68% 47%
Runs (8 km) 37% 62%

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
Gary · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:22:14
3:074:443:482:444:044:243:535:563:564:583:541:493:555:485:198:1211:53
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, Gary · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 31:56 running, 38:35 at the stations and 11:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:12).

See the numbers
Part Russell · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Gary · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:46 3:07
SkiErg 4:34 4:44
Run 2 4:57 3:48
Sled push 3:02 2:44
Run 3 5:12 4:04
Sled pull 3:49 4:24
Run 4 5:10 3:53
Burpee broad jump 4:43 5:56
Run 5 5:20 3:56
Row 4:43 4:58
Run 6 5:12 3:54
Farmers carry 1:54 1:49
Run 7 5:20 3:55
Sandbag lunges 3:43 5:48
Run 8 5:24 5:19
Wall balls 5:40 8:12
Roxzone 5:55 11:53
Finish 1:20:14 1:22:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Russell Gary Gap
Cardiff 2026 Pro Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:27:37 1:27:42 0:05 · Russell faster
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