John vs James

USA USA · Pro Men · 2 results

John Nguyen

1:56:09 best Pro Men time · Boston 2026
322nd of 339 place in that race · 339 Pro Men finishers
USA USA · Pro Men · 5 results

James Knauer

1:45:33 best Pro Men time · Boston 2025
236th of 249 place in that race · 249 Pro Men finishers

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

John: New York 2026, Open Men · James: Boston 2025, Pro Men

Not the same division. John's race here is Open Men and James's is Pro Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

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

This chart shows where John and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.John: strongest on Runs (faster than 75% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 5%).James: strongest on Push (faster than 61% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part John: faster than James: faster than
Ski 30% 1%
Push 45% 61%
Pull 44% 42%
BBJ 45% 6%
Row 22% 8%
Carry 5% 48%
Lunges 61% 13%
Wall balls 30% 6%
Roxzone 74% 13%
Runs 75% 3%

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

Part by part

Part John James
SkiErg 30% 1%
Sled push 45% 61%
Sled pull 44% 42%
Burpee broad jump 45% 6%
Row 22% 8%
Farmers carry 5% 48%
Sandbag lunges 61% 13%
Wall balls 30% 6%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 13%
Runs (8 km) 75% 3%

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

John · New York 2026 · Open Men1:29:04
4:294:494:253:134:525:084:586:005:275:285:163:555:065:195:489:235:36
James · Boston 2025 · Pro Men1:45:33
6:104:545:123:265:366:365:586:436:225:026:262:036:166:428:2112:347:21
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.John · New York 2026 · Open Men: 40:22 running, 43:16 at the stations and 5:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:23) and the shortest the sled push (3:13).Below, James · Boston 2025 · Pro Men: 50:22 running, 48:00 at the stations and 7:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:34).

See the numbers
Part John · New York 2026 · Open Men James · Boston 2025 · Pro Men
Run 1 4:29 6:10
SkiErg 4:49 4:54
Run 2 4:25 5:12
Sled push 3:13 3:26
Run 3 4:52 5:36
Sled pull 5:08 6:36
Run 4 4:58 5:58
Burpee broad jump 6:00 6:43
Run 5 5:27 6:22
Row 5:28 5:02
Run 6 5:16 6:26
Farmers carry 3:55 2:03
Run 7 5:06 6:16
Sandbag lunges 5:19 6:42
Run 8 5:48 8:21
Wall balls 9:23 12:34
Roxzone 5:36 7:21
Finish 1:29:04 1:45:33

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race John James Gap
Boston 2026 Pro Men · 8 Oct 2026 1:56:09 1:56:59 0:50 · John faster
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