Esteban vs Blake

AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

Esteban Valdes

1:35:15 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
2360th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 4 results

Blake Thackrah

1:29:20 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1786th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Esteban: Sydney 2026, Open Men · Blake: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Esteban and Blake sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Esteban: strongest on BBJ (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 10%).Blake: strongest on Push (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 29%).

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Part Esteban: faster than Blake: faster than
Ski 44% 66%
Push 27% 78%
Pull 15% 30%
BBJ 68% 29%
Row 10% 49%
Carry 19% 48%
Lunges 12% 43%
Wall balls 47% 45%
Roxzone 25% 31%
Runs 32% 35%

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

Part by part

Part Esteban Blake
SkiErg 44% 66%
Sled push 27% 78%
Sled pull 15% 30%
Burpee broad jump 68% 29%
Row 10% 49%
Farmers carry 19% 48%
Sandbag lunges 12% 43%
Wall balls 47% 45%
Roxzone (moving) 25% 31%
Runs (8 km) 32% 35%

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

Esteban · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:35:15
4:034:294:402:595:165:545:105:005:495:245:152:385:088:277:507:1210:09
Blake · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:29:20
2:444:204:472:155:165:255:226:195:384:485:322:075:395:326:386:5010:16
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.Esteban · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 43:11 running, 42:02 at the stations and 10:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (8:27).Below, Blake · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 41:35 running, 37:36 at the stations and 10:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:50).

See the numbers
Part Esteban · Sydney 2026 · Open Men Blake · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:03 2:44
SkiErg 4:29 4:20
Run 2 4:40 4:47
Sled push 2:59 2:15
Run 3 5:16 5:16
Sled pull 5:54 5:25
Run 4 5:10 5:22
Burpee broad jump 5:00 6:19
Run 5 5:49 5:38
Row 5:24 4:48
Run 6 5:15 5:32
Farmers carry 2:38 2:07
Run 7 5:08 5:39
Sandbag lunges 8:27 5:32
Run 8 7:50 6:38
Wall balls 7:12 6:50
Roxzone 10:09 10:16
Finish 1:35:15 1:29:20

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Esteban Blake Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 1:35:15 1:35:17 0:02 · Esteban faster
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