Tao vs Christopher

CHN CHN · Open Men · 1 result

Tao Shen

2:08:12 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
3183rd of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Christopher Medway

2:08:28 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
3184th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Tao: Sydney 2026, Open Men · Christopher: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Tao and Christopher sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Tao: strongest on Pull (faster than 14% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 0%).Christopher: strongest on Runs (faster than 17% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 0%).

See the numbers
Part Tao: faster than Christopher: faster than
Ski 0% 4%
Push 11% 3%
Pull 14% 9%
BBJ 4% 3%
Row 4% 5%
Carry 1% 6%
Lunges 12% 5%
Wall balls 7% 0%
Roxzone 6% 13%
Runs 4% 17%

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

Part by part

Part Tao Christopher
SkiErg 0% 4%
Sled push 11% 3%
Sled pull 14% 9%
Burpee broad jump 4% 3%
Row 4% 5%
Farmers carry 1% 6%
Sandbag lunges 12% 5%
Wall balls 7% 0%
Roxzone (moving) 6% 13%
Runs (8 km) 4% 17%

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

Tao · Sydney 2026 · Open Men2:08:12
6:006:136:383:316:546:027:1110:257:445:436:544:206:158:2210:5412:3012:44
Christopher · Sydney 2026 · Open Men2:08:28
5:165:146:144:146:096:306:2411:046:255:386:323:166:4010:183:4723:3211:24
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.Tao · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 58:29 running, 57:07 at the stations and 12:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:30) and the shortest the sled push (3:31).Below, Christopher · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 47:27 running, 1:09:46 at the stations and 11:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (23:32).

See the numbers
Part Tao · Sydney 2026 · Open Men Christopher · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:00 5:16
SkiErg 6:13 5:14
Run 2 6:38 6:14
Sled push 3:31 4:14
Run 3 6:54 6:09
Sled pull 6:02 6:30
Run 4 7:11 6:24
Burpee broad jump 10:25 11:04
Run 5 7:44 6:25
Row 5:43 5:38
Run 6 6:54 6:32
Farmers carry 4:20 3:16
Run 7 6:15 6:40
Sandbag lunges 8:22 10:18
Run 8 10:54 3:47
Wall balls 12:30 23:32
Roxzone 12:44 11:24
Finish 2:08:12 2:08:28

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Tao Christopher Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 2:08:12 2:08:28 0:16 · Tao faster
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