Sven vs Kaj

NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Sven Jansen

1:48:28 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2025
1658th of 1,936 place in that race · 1,936 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 7 results

Kaj Merkelbag

1:24:49 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2026
1457th of 2,802 place in that race · 2,802 Open Men finishers

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

Sven: Maastricht 2025, Open Men · Kaj: Amsterdam 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sven and Kaj sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sven: strongest on Carry (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 4%).Kaj: strongest on Pull (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 20%).

See the numbers
Part Sven: faster than Kaj: faster than
Ski 19% 37%
Push 4% 20%
Pull 33% 84%
BBJ 32% 68%
Row 31% 59%
Carry 38% 55%
Lunges 14% 54%
Wall balls 19% 64%
Roxzone 26% 47%
Runs 10% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Sven Kaj
SkiErg 19% 37%
Sled push 4% 20%
Sled pull 33% 84%
Burpee broad jump 32% 68%
Row 31% 59%
Farmers carry 38% 55%
Sandbag lunges 14% 54%
Wall balls 19% 64%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 47%
Runs (8 km) 10% 33%

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

Sven · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men1:48:28
5:384:465:544:026:325:487:026:496:585:006:252:156:207:097:3311:219:04
Kaj · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men1:24:49
4:244:335:313:295:333:555:314:475:474:405:261:585:234:595:506:166:55
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.Sven · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men: 52:22 running, 47:10 at the stations and 9:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:21).Below, Kaj · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men: 43:25 running, 34:37 at the stations and 6:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:16).

See the numbers
Part Sven · Maastricht 2025 · Open Men Kaj · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:38 4:24
SkiErg 4:46 4:33
Run 2 5:54 5:31
Sled push 4:02 3:29
Run 3 6:32 5:33
Sled pull 5:48 3:55
Run 4 7:02 5:31
Burpee broad jump 6:49 4:47
Run 5 6:58 5:47
Row 5:00 4:40
Run 6 6:25 5:26
Farmers carry 2:15 1:58
Run 7 6:20 5:23
Sandbag lunges 7:09 4:59
Run 8 7:33 5:50
Wall balls 11:21 6:16
Roxzone 9:04 6:55
Finish 1:48:28 1:24:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sven Kaj Gap
Maastricht 2025 Open Men · 19 Sep 2025 1:48:28 1:48:29 0:01 · Sven faster
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