Niels vs Michael

NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Niels Ros

1:21:30 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
615th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Michael van Dijk

1:15:45 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2025
442nd of 2,469 place in that race · 2,469 Open Men finishers

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

Niels: Ghent 2025, Open Men · Michael: Rotterdam 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Niels and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Niels: strongest on Row (faster than 86% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 17%).Michael: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 36%).

See the numbers
Part Niels: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 65% 51%
Push 70% 89%
Pull 80% 70%
BBJ 22% 48%
Row 86% 55%
Carry 17% 69%
Lunges 53% 47%
Wall balls 59% 36%
Roxzone 53% 94%
Runs 61% 92%

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

Part by part

Part Niels Michael
SkiErg 65% 51%
Sled push 70% 89%
Sled pull 80% 70%
Burpee broad jump 22% 48%
Row 86% 55%
Farmers carry 17% 69%
Sandbag lunges 53% 47%
Wall balls 59% 36%
Roxzone (moving) 53% 94%
Runs (8 km) 61% 92%

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

Niels · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:21:30
4:174:243:482:484:034:144:046:466:044:275:092:325:264:495:346:336:38
Michael · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men1:15:45
4:024:254:012:144:294:324:255:504:474:424:291:564:295:125:046:344:43
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.Niels · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 38:25 running, 36:33 at the stations and 6:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:46).Below, Michael · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men: 35:46 running, 35:25 at the stations and 4:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:34).

See the numbers
Part Niels · Ghent 2025 · Open Men Michael · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:17 4:02
SkiErg 4:24 4:25
Run 2 3:48 4:01
Sled push 2:48 2:14
Run 3 4:03 4:29
Sled pull 4:14 4:32
Run 4 4:04 4:25
Burpee broad jump 6:46 5:50
Run 5 6:04 4:47
Row 4:27 4:42
Run 6 5:09 4:29
Farmers carry 2:32 1:56
Run 7 5:26 4:29
Sandbag lunges 4:49 5:12
Run 8 5:34 5:04
Wall balls 6:33 6:34
Roxzone 6:38 4:43
Finish 1:21:30 1:15:45

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Niels Michael Gap
Ghent 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:21:30 1:21:28 0:02 · Michael faster
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