Kai vs Michael

GER GER · Open Men · 10 results

Kai Schäfer

1:13:53 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2024
126th of 770 place in that race · 770 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 4 results

Michael Andre Waldi

1:14:52 best Open Men time · Frankfurt 2025
336th of 1,883 place in that race · 1,883 Open Men finishers

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

Kai: Stuttgart 2024, Open Men · Michael: Frankfurt 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kai and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kai: strongest on BBJ (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 52%).Michael: strongest on Runs (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 30%).

See the numbers
Part Kai: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 65% 30%
Push 62% 76%
Pull 79% 71%
BBJ 89% 73%
Row 62% 77%
Carry 52% 55%
Lunges 52% 81%
Wall balls 77% 63%
Roxzone 88% 70%
Runs 85% 87%

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

Part by part

Part Kai Michael
SkiErg 65% 30%
Sled push 62% 76%
Sled pull 79% 71%
Burpee broad jump 89% 73%
Row 62% 77%
Farmers carry 52% 55%
Sandbag lunges 52% 81%
Wall balls 77% 63%
Roxzone (moving) 88% 70%
Runs (8 km) 85% 87%

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

Kai · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men1:13:53
4:314:244:102:364:164:154:273:554:274:444:272:024:275:045:005:375:41
Michael · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men1:14:52
3:384:394:083:084:224:234:124:324:424:334:282:004:204:065:196:156:16
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.Kai · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men: 35:46 running, 32:37 at the stations and 5:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:37).Below, Michael · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men: 35:09 running, 33:35 at the stations and 6:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:15).

See the numbers
Part Kai · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men Michael · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:31 3:38
SkiErg 4:24 4:39
Run 2 4:10 4:08
Sled push 2:36 3:08
Run 3 4:16 4:22
Sled pull 4:15 4:23
Run 4 4:27 4:12
Burpee broad jump 3:55 4:32
Run 5 4:27 4:42
Row 4:44 4:33
Run 6 4:27 4:28
Farmers carry 2:02 2:00
Run 7 4:27 4:20
Sandbag lunges 5:04 4:06
Run 8 5:00 5:19
Wall balls 5:37 6:15
Roxzone 5:41 6:16
Finish 1:13:53 1:14:52

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kai Michael Gap
Karlsruhe 2026 Open Men · 1 Oct 2026 1:22:42 1:22:36 0:06 · Michael faster
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