Ellis vs Ross

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Ellis Rees

1:17:08 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
851st of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 7 results

Ross Nihill

1:10:31 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2024
214th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers

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

Ellis: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · Ross: Melbourne 2024, Open Men

50% top SkiPush
no split
PullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
EllisRossedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Ellis and Ross sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ellis: strongest on Carry (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 46%).Ross: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 76%).

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Part Ellis: faster than Ross: faster than
Ski 64% 90%
Push 89% no split
Pull 57% 96%
BBJ 46% 95%
Row 59% 79%
Carry 97% 82%
Lunges 84% 85%
Wall balls 91% 85%
Roxzone 47% 97%
Runs 63% 76%

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

Part by part

Part Ellis Ross
SkiErg 64% 90%
Sled push 89% —
Sled pull 57% 96%
Burpee broad jump 46% 95%
Row 59% 79%
Farmers carry 97% 82%
Sandbag lunges 84% 85%
Wall balls 91% 85%
Roxzone (moving) 47% 97%
Runs (8 km) 63% 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

Ellis · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:17:08
2:394:214:372:035:024:364:545:274:524:424:331:304:304:075:364:309:18
Ross · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men1:10:31
4:354:024:174:393:164:483:264:544:334:401:484:464:165:164:465:20
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.Ellis · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 36:43 running, 31:16 at the stations and 9:18 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:27).Below, Ross · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men: 37:55 running, 26:07 at the stations and 5:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:46).

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Part Ellis · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men Ross · Melbourne 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 2:39 4:35
SkiErg 4:21 4:02
Run 2 4:37 4:17
Sled push 2:03 —
Run 3 5:02 4:39
Sled pull 4:36 3:16
Run 4 4:54 4:48
Burpee broad jump 5:27 3:26
Run 5 4:52 4:54
Row 4:42 4:33
Run 6 4:33 4:40
Farmers carry 1:30 1:48
Run 7 4:30 4:46
Sandbag lunges 4:07 4:16
Run 8 5:36 5:16
Wall balls 4:30 4:46
Roxzone 9:18 5:20
Finish 1:17:08 1:10:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ellis Ross Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:17:08 1:17:09 0:01 · Ellis faster
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