Paul vs Sam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 9 results

Paul Sheppard

1:27:27 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
1855th of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Sam Parsons

1:13:40 best Open Men time · London 2025
468th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Berlin 2025, Open Men · Sam: London 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Ski (faster than 51% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 17%).Sam: strongest on Carry (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 43%).

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Part Paul: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 51% 53%
Push 24% 43%
Pull 22% 61%
BBJ 22% 68%
Row 17% 69%
Carry 25% 93%
Lunges 29% 61%
Wall balls 32% 87%
Roxzone 24% 74%
Runs 34% 70%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Sam
SkiErg 51% 53%
Sled push 24% 43%
Sled pull 22% 61%
Burpee broad jump 22% 68%
Row 17% 69%
Farmers carry 25% 93%
Sandbag lunges 29% 61%
Wall balls 32% 87%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 74%
Runs (8 km) 34% 70%

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

Paul · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:27:27
3:374:224:193:134:345:044:426:354:545:024:452:265:035:446:357:009:40
Sam · London 2025 · Open Men1:13:40
4:264:214:162:554:304:054:254:334:384:324:281:354:254:475:585:144:39
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.Paul · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 38:29 running, 39:26 at the stations and 9:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:00).Below, Sam · London 2025 · Open Men: 37:07 running, 32:01 at the stations and 4:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:14).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Berlin 2025 · Open Men Sam · London 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:37 4:26
SkiErg 4:22 4:21
Run 2 4:19 4:16
Sled push 3:13 2:55
Run 3 4:34 4:30
Sled pull 5:04 4:05
Run 4 4:42 4:25
Burpee broad jump 6:35 4:33
Run 5 4:54 4:38
Row 5:02 4:32
Run 6 4:45 4:28
Farmers carry 2:26 1:35
Run 7 5:03 4:25
Sandbag lunges 5:44 4:47
Run 8 6:35 5:58
Wall balls 7:00 5:14
Roxzone 9:40 4:39
Finish 1:27:27 1:13:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Sam Gap
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:27:56 1:27:58 0:02 · Paul faster
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