Merle vs Wissam

GER GER · Open Women · 7 results

Merle Osterthun

1:19:34 best Open Women time · Hamburg 2024
110th of 606 place in that race · 606 Open Women finishers
ALG ALG · Open Women · 8 results

Wissam Benadjaoud

1:14:01 best Open Women time · Berlin 2026
94th of 2,614 place in that race · 2,614 Open Women finishers

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

Merle: Hamburg 2024, Open Women · Wissam: Berlin 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Merle and Wissam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Merle: strongest on Push (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 58%).Wissam: strongest on Lunges (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 54%).

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Part Merle: faster than Wissam: faster than
Ski 89% 54%
Push 94% 79%
Pull 92% 94%
BBJ 72% 93%
Row 87% 84%
Carry 66% 85%
Lunges 58% 97%
Wall balls 69% 97%
Roxzone 90% 97%
Runs 77% 92%

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

Part by part

Part Merle Wissam
SkiErg 89% 54%
Sled push 94% 79%
Sled pull 92% 94%
Burpee broad jump 72% 93%
Row 87% 84%
Farmers carry 66% 85%
Sandbag lunges 58% 97%
Wall balls 69% 97%
Roxzone (moving) 90% 97%
Runs (8 km) 77% 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

Merle · Hamburg 2024 · Open Women1:19:34
4:424:384:401:404:594:004:595:395:094:535:022:005:114:515:345:336:13
Wissam · Berlin 2026 · Open Women1:14:01
3:335:103:432:323:463:453:454:213:505:063:462:003:503:325:284:1911:42
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.Merle · Hamburg 2024 · Open Women: 40:16 running, 33:14 at the stations and 6:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:39) and the shortest the sled push (1:40).Below, Wissam · Berlin 2026 · Open Women: 31:41 running, 30:45 at the stations and 11:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (5:10).

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Part Merle · Hamburg 2024 · Open Women Wissam · Berlin 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:42 3:33
SkiErg 4:38 5:10
Run 2 4:40 3:43
Sled push 1:40 2:32
Run 3 4:59 3:46
Sled pull 4:00 3:45
Run 4 4:59 3:45
Burpee broad jump 5:39 4:21
Run 5 5:09 3:50
Row 4:53 5:06
Run 6 5:02 3:46
Farmers carry 2:00 2:00
Run 7 5:11 3:50
Sandbag lunges 4:51 3:32
Run 8 5:34 5:28
Wall balls 5:33 4:19
Roxzone 6:13 11:42
Finish 1:19:34 1:14:01

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merle Wissam Gap
Frankfurt 2024 Open Women · 14 Dec 2024 1:20:26 1:20:23 0:03 · Wissam faster
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