Joy vs Michelle
Joy McDaniel Day
Michelle Luu Lam
Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more
Joy: Sydney 2026, Open Women · Michelle: Sydney 2026, Open Women
This chart shows where Joy and Michelle sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joy: strongest on Carry (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 16%).Michelle: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 16%).
See the numbers
| Part | Joy: faster than | Michelle: faster than |
|---|---|---|
| Ski | 16% | 53% |
| Push | 21% | 63% |
| Pull | 43% | 42% |
| BBJ | 71% | 24% |
| Row | 32% | 61% |
| Carry | 75% | 16% |
| Lunges | 65% | 45% |
| Wall balls | 47% | 67% |
| Roxzone | 23% | 66% |
| Runs | 46% | 45% |
Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.
Part by part
| Part | Joy | Michelle |
|---|---|---|
| SkiErg | 16% | 53% |
| Sled push | 21% | 63% |
| Sled pull | 43% | 42% |
| Burpee broad jump | 71% | 24% |
| Row | 32% | 61% |
| Farmers carry | 75% | 16% |
| Sandbag lunges | 65% | 45% |
| Wall balls | 47% | 67% |
| Roxzone (moving) | 23% | 66% |
| Runs (8 km) | 46% | 45% |
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
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.Joy · Sydney 2026 · Open Women: 44:38 running, 38:19 at the stations and 10:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:34).Below, Michelle · Sydney 2026 · Open Women: 44:49 running, 40:26 at the stations and 8:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:50) and the shortest the sled push (2:16).
See the numbers
| Part | Joy · Sydney 2026 · Open Women | Michelle · Sydney 2026 · Open Women |
|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | 5:32 | 4:47 |
| SkiErg | 5:34 | 5:04 |
| Run 2 | 5:21 | 5:05 |
| Sled push | 2:52 | 2:16 |
| Run 3 | 5:02 | 5:17 |
| Sled pull | 5:21 | 5:23 |
| Run 4 | 5:16 | 5:28 |
| Burpee broad jump | 5:53 | 8:50 |
| Run 5 | 5:22 | 5:30 |
| Row | 5:32 | 5:12 |
| Run 6 | 5:20 | 5:42 |
| Farmers carry | 1:50 | 2:39 |
| Run 7 | 5:11 | 5:22 |
| Sandbag lunges | 4:43 | 5:26 |
| Run 8 | 7:34 | 7:38 |
| Wall balls | 6:34 | 5:36 |
| Roxzone | 10:56 | 8:34 |
| Finish | 1:33:45 | 1:33:43 |
Head to head: 1 race they both ran
| Race | Joy | Michelle | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney 2026 Open Women · 1 Jul 2026 | 1:33:45 | 1:33:43 | 0:02 · Michelle faster |
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