Derron vs Damien

RSA RSA · Pro Men · 3 results

Derron Thomson

1:07:00 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2025
8th of 146 place in that race · 146 Pro Men finishers
RSA RSA · Pro Men · 1 result

Damien Christopher Botes

1:07:31 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2025
9th of 146 place in that race · 146 Pro Men finishers

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

Derron: Cape Town 2025, Pro Men · Damien: Cape Town 2025, Pro Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
DerronDamienedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Derron and Damien sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Derron: strongest on Runs (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 60%).Damien: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 79%).

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Part Derron: faster than Damien: faster than
Ski 89% 94%
Push 60% 88%
Pull 78% 98%
BBJ 82% 86%
Row 94% 96%
Carry 85% 97%
Lunges 85% 94%
Wall balls 85% 99%
Roxzone 84% 92%
Runs 97% 79%

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

Part by part

Part Derron Damien
SkiErg 89% 94%
Sled push 60% 88%
Sled pull 78% 98%
Burpee broad jump 82% 86%
Row 94% 96%
Farmers carry 85% 97%
Sandbag lunges 85% 94%
Wall balls 85% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 92%
Runs (8 km) 97% 79%

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

Derron · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men1:07:00
2:263:543:363:354:025:223:553:364:124:134:001:474:024:124:245:234:28
Damien · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men1:07:31
2:543:514:152:574:464:114:413:344:474:094:301:334:433:485:013:494:12
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.Derron · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men: 30:37 running, 32:02 at the stations and 4:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:23).Below, Damien · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men: 35:37 running, 27:52 at the stations and 4:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sled pull (4:11).

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Part Derron · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men Damien · Cape Town 2025 · Pro Men
Run 1 2:26 2:54
SkiErg 3:54 3:51
Run 2 3:36 4:15
Sled push 3:35 2:57
Run 3 4:02 4:46
Sled pull 5:22 4:11
Run 4 3:55 4:41
Burpee broad jump 3:36 3:34
Run 5 4:12 4:47
Row 4:13 4:09
Run 6 4:00 4:30
Farmers carry 1:47 1:33
Run 7 4:02 4:43
Sandbag lunges 4:12 3:48
Run 8 4:24 5:01
Wall balls 5:23 3:49
Roxzone 4:28 4:12
Finish 1:07:00 1:07:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Derron Damien Gap
Cape Town 2025 Pro Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:07:00 1:07:31 0:31 · Derron faster
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