Mark vs Joel

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Mark Buttner

1:58:10 best Open Men time · Perth 2026
1002nd of 1,089 place in that race · 1,089 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 4 results

Joel Popplewell

1:56:05 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
2663rd of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Mark: Perth 2026, Open Men · Joel: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Mark and Joel sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mark: strongest on Carry (faster than 40% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 3%).Joel: strongest on Row (faster than 43% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 3%).

See the numbers
Part Mark: faster than Joel: faster than
Ski 17% 6%
Push 31% 20%
Pull 12% 4%
BBJ 13% 7%
Row 15% 43%
Carry 40% 32%
Lunges 23% 3%
Wall balls 22% 4%
Roxzone 3% 6%
Runs 4% 18%

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

Part by part

Part Mark Joel
SkiErg 17% 6%
Sled push 31% 20%
Sled pull 12% 4%
Burpee broad jump 13% 7%
Row 15% 43%
Farmers carry 40% 32%
Sandbag lunges 23% 3%
Wall balls 22% 4%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 6%
Runs (8 km) 4% 18%

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

Mark · Perth 2026 · Open Men1:58:10
4:594:456:553:187:556:207:397:5011:135:247:432:557:037:017:219:0910:45
Joel · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:56:05
3:355:065:163:235:418:135:268:406:134:516:202:216:3210:067:2813:1413:50
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.Mark · Perth 2026 · Open Men: 1:00:49 running, 46:42 at the stations and 10:45 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:09).Below, Joel · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 46:31 running, 55:54 at the stations and 13:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:14).

See the numbers
Part Mark · Perth 2026 · Open Men Joel · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:59 3:35
SkiErg 4:45 5:06
Run 2 6:55 5:16
Sled push 3:18 3:23
Run 3 7:55 5:41
Sled pull 6:20 8:13
Run 4 7:39 5:26
Burpee broad jump 7:50 8:40
Run 5 11:13 6:13
Row 5:24 4:51
Run 6 7:43 6:20
Farmers carry 2:55 2:21
Run 7 7:03 6:32
Sandbag lunges 7:01 10:06
Run 8 7:21 7:28
Wall balls 9:09 13:14
Roxzone 10:45 13:50
Finish 1:58:10 1:56:05

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mark Joel Gap
Perth 2026 Open Men · 21 Aug 2026 1:58:10 1:58:41 0:31 · Mark faster
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