Sandile vs Simba

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Sandile Ngema

2:03:47 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
614th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers
ZIM ZIM · Open Men · 1 result

Simba Mapingire

2:03:51 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
615th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers

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

Sandile: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men · Simba: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sandile and Simba sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sandile: strongest on Carry (faster than 35% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 6%).Simba: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 42% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 11%).

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Part Sandile: faster than Simba: faster than
Ski 27% 31%
Push 10% 21%
Pull 9% 14%
BBJ 6% 33%
Row 22% 21%
Carry 35% 34%
Lunges 10% 42%
Wall balls 33% 29%
Roxzone 22% 42%
Runs 31% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Sandile Simba
SkiErg 27% 31%
Sled push 10% 21%
Sled pull 9% 14%
Burpee broad jump 6% 33%
Row 22% 21%
Farmers carry 35% 34%
Sandbag lunges 10% 42%
Wall balls 33% 29%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 42%
Runs (8 km) 31% 11%

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

Sandile · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men2:03:47
8:095:015:344:465:338:346:0813:026:245:526:122:395:529:029:1610:1011:41
Simba · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men2:03:51
8:434:595:544:038:537:387:138:207:265:547:022:407:156:2211:1710:409:40
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.Sandile · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 53:08 running, 59:07 at the stations and 11:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (13:02).Below, Simba · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 1:03:43 running, 50:36 at the stations and 9:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:40).

See the numbers
Part Sandile · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men Simba · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 8:09 8:43
SkiErg 5:01 4:59
Run 2 5:34 5:54
Sled push 4:46 4:03
Run 3 5:33 8:53
Sled pull 8:34 7:38
Run 4 6:08 7:13
Burpee broad jump 13:02 8:20
Run 5 6:24 7:26
Row 5:52 5:54
Run 6 6:12 7:02
Farmers carry 2:39 2:40
Run 7 5:52 7:15
Sandbag lunges 9:02 6:22
Run 8 9:16 11:17
Wall balls 10:10 10:40
Roxzone 11:41 9:40
Finish 2:03:47 2:03:51

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sandile Simba Gap
Johannesburg 2026 Open Men · 30 May 2026 2:03:47 2:03:51 0:04 · Sandile faster
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