Damien vs Aqil

REU REU · Open Men · 1 result

Damien Vally

1:37:04 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
230th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 9 results

Aqil Alibhai

1:12:37 best Open Men time · Istanbul 2026
129th of 744 place in that race · 744 Open Men finishers

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

Damien: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men · Aqil: Istanbul 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Damien and Aqil sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Damien: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 39%).Aqil: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 68%).

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Part Damien: faster than Aqil: faster than
Ski 43% 69%
Push 63% 89%
Pull 64% 80%
BBJ 49% 69%
Row 65% 68%
Carry 74% 75%
Lunges 68% 79%
Wall balls 96% 99%
Roxzone 39% 75%
Runs 58% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Damien Aqil
SkiErg 43% 69%
Sled push 63% 89%
Sled pull 64% 80%
Burpee broad jump 49% 69%
Row 65% 68%
Farmers carry 74% 75%
Sandbag lunges 68% 79%
Wall balls 96% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 39% 75%
Runs (8 km) 58% 72%

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

Damien · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:37:04
3:414:565:503:326:105:236:126:586:274:576:292:006:275:087:425:0910:10
Aqil · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men1:12:37
5:044:214:072:124:183:554:124:394:254:354:251:534:214:174:383:307:54
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.Damien · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 48:58 running, 38:02 at the stations and 10:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:58).Below, Aqil · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men: 35:31 running, 29:22 at the stations and 7:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (4:39).

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Part Damien · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men Aqil · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:41 5:04
SkiErg 4:56 4:21
Run 2 5:50 4:07
Sled push 3:32 2:12
Run 3 6:10 4:18
Sled pull 5:23 3:55
Run 4 6:12 4:12
Burpee broad jump 6:58 4:39
Run 5 6:27 4:25
Row 4:57 4:35
Run 6 6:29 4:25
Farmers carry 2:00 1:53
Run 7 6:27 4:21
Sandbag lunges 5:08 4:17
Run 8 7:42 4:38
Wall balls 5:09 3:30
Roxzone 10:10 7:54
Finish 1:37:04 1:12:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Damien Aqil Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:37:04 1:37:21 0:17 · Damien faster
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