Aaron vs Yaël

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Aaron Smith

1:18:56 best Open Men time · Glasgow 2025
1255th of 3,034 place in that race · 3,034 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Yaël Nagelkerken

1:37:57 best Open Men time · Glasgow 2026
2043rd of 2,661 place in that race · 2,661 Open Men finishers

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

Aaron: Glasgow 2025, Open Men · Yaël: Glasgow 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Aaron and Yaël sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Aaron: strongest on Carry (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 29%).Yaël: strongest on Row (faster than 62% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 10%).

See the numbers
Part Aaron: faster than Yaël: faster than
Ski 44% 33%
Push 36% 37%
Pull 29% 23%
BBJ 43% 41%
Row 41% 62%
Carry 78% 22%
Lunges 42% 21%
Wall balls 43% 10%
Roxzone 67% 16%
Runs 72% 31%

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

Part by part

Part Aaron Yaël
SkiErg 44% 33%
Sled push 36% 37%
Sled pull 29% 23%
Burpee broad jump 43% 41%
Row 41% 62%
Farmers carry 78% 22%
Sandbag lunges 42% 21%
Wall balls 43% 10%
Roxzone (moving) 67% 16%
Runs (8 km) 72% 31%

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

Aaron · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men1:18:56
3:014:254:223:065:025:015:195:375:384:495:051:474:595:174:166:544:26
Yaël · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men1:37:57
5:164:415:133:075:185:095:175:555:314:497:142:395:236:516:3412:017:08
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.Aaron · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men: 37:42 running, 36:56 at the stations and 4:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:54).Below, Yaël · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men: 45:46 running, 45:13 at the stations and 7:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:01).

See the numbers
Part Aaron · Glasgow 2025 · Open Men Yaël · Glasgow 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:01 5:16
SkiErg 4:25 4:41
Run 2 4:22 5:13
Sled push 3:06 3:07
Run 3 5:02 5:18
Sled pull 5:01 5:09
Run 4 5:19 5:17
Burpee broad jump 5:37 5:55
Run 5 5:38 5:31
Row 4:49 4:49
Run 6 5:05 7:14
Farmers carry 1:47 2:39
Run 7 4:59 5:23
Sandbag lunges 5:17 6:51
Run 8 4:16 6:34
Wall balls 6:54 12:01
Roxzone 4:26 7:08
Finish 1:18:56 1:37:57

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Aaron Yaël Gap
Glasgow 2026 Open Men · 11 Mar 2026 1:37:54 1:37:57 0:03 · Aaron faster
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