Sam vs James

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Sam Nebel

2:09:38 best Open Men time · Atlanta 2025
740th of 789 place in that race · 789 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

James Paul Dekemper

2:08:40 best Open Men time · Atlanta 2025
738th of 789 place in that race · 789 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: Atlanta 2025, Open Men · James: Atlanta 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Push (faster than 35% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 4%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 22% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 4%).

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Part Sam: faster than James: faster than
Ski 4% 13%
Push 35% 22%
Pull 8% 4%
BBJ 6% 12%
Row 7% 9%
Carry 13% 12%
Lunges 20% 17%
Wall balls 30% 18%
Roxzone 9% 9%
Runs 4% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Sam James
SkiErg 4% 13%
Sled push 35% 22%
Sled pull 8% 4%
Burpee broad jump 6% 12%
Row 7% 9%
Farmers carry 13% 12%
Sandbag lunges 20% 17%
Wall balls 30% 18%
Roxzone (moving) 9% 9%
Runs (8 km) 4% 5%

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

Sam · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men2:09:38
10:165:376:023:196:287:456:249:5010:185:568:102:488:087:048:558:4514:00
James · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men2:08:40
6:185:177:403:397:418:297:458:178:145:528:052:528:097:209:1010:0413:55
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.Sam · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men: 1:04:41 running, 51:04 at the stations and 14:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:50).Below, James · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men: 1:03:02 running, 51:50 at the stations and 13:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:04).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men James · Atlanta 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 10:16 6:18
SkiErg 5:37 5:17
Run 2 6:02 7:40
Sled push 3:19 3:39
Run 3 6:28 7:41
Sled pull 7:45 8:29
Run 4 6:24 7:45
Burpee broad jump 9:50 8:17
Run 5 10:18 8:14
Row 5:56 5:52
Run 6 8:10 8:05
Farmers carry 2:48 2:52
Run 7 8:08 8:09
Sandbag lunges 7:04 7:20
Run 8 8:55 9:10
Wall balls 8:45 10:04
Roxzone 14:00 13:55
Finish 2:09:38 2:08:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam James Gap
Atlanta 2025 Open Men · 31 Oct 2025 2:09:38 2:08:40 0:58 · James faster
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