Brian vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Brian Pearson

1:43:59 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
1057th of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Paul Ackers

1:42:59 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4806th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Brian: Manchester 2025, Open Men · Paul: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Brian and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Brian: strongest on BBJ (faster than 22% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 3%).Paul: strongest on Carry (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Brian: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 8% 1%
Push 8% 18%
Pull 3% 28%
BBJ 22% 41%
Row 16% 5%
Carry 7% 76%
Lunges 15% 47%
Wall balls 8% 34%
Roxzone 18% 9%
Runs 19% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Brian Paul
SkiErg 8% 1%
Sled push 8% 18%
Sled pull 3% 28%
Burpee broad jump 22% 41%
Row 16% 5%
Farmers carry 7% 76%
Sandbag lunges 15% 47%
Wall balls 8% 34%
Roxzone (moving) 18% 9%
Runs (8 km) 19% 5%

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

Brian · Manchester 2025 · Open Men1:43:59
4:224:465:573:305:587:306:086:336:155:046:083:066:236:416:1210:468:40
Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:42:59
4:426:025:113:245:195:285:285:555:385:495:231:465:295:178:008:2715:50
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.Brian · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 47:23 running, 47:56 at the stations and 8:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:46).Below, Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 45:10 running, 42:08 at the stations and 15:50 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:27).

See the numbers
Part Brian · Manchester 2025 · Open Men Paul · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:22 4:42
SkiErg 4:46 6:02
Run 2 5:57 5:11
Sled push 3:30 3:24
Run 3 5:58 5:19
Sled pull 7:30 5:28
Run 4 6:08 5:28
Burpee broad jump 6:33 5:55
Run 5 6:15 5:38
Row 5:04 5:49
Run 6 6:08 5:23
Farmers carry 3:06 1:46
Run 7 6:23 5:29
Sandbag lunges 6:41 5:17
Run 8 6:12 8:00
Wall balls 10:46 8:27
Roxzone 8:40 15:50
Finish 1:43:59 1:42:59

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Brian Paul Gap
London 2025 Open Men · 3 May 2025 1:54:36 1:54:29 0:07 · Paul faster
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