Luke vs Alai

GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Luke Smith

1:21:00 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
1017th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers
PAK PAK · Open Men · 2 results

Alai Naseer

1:51:20 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5156th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Luke: Birmingham 2024, Open Men · Alai: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Luke and Alai sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Luke: strongest on BBJ (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 39%).Alai: strongest on BBJ (faster than 31% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Luke: faster than Alai: faster than
Ski 39% 5%
Push 77% 6%
Pull 64% 2%
BBJ 88% 31%
Row 50% 8%
Carry 64% 24%
Lunges 63% 28%
Wall balls 62% 3%
Roxzone 54% 11%
Runs 51% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Luke Alai
SkiErg 39% 5%
Sled push 77% 6%
Sled pull 64% 2%
Burpee broad jump 88% 31%
Row 50% 8%
Farmers carry 64% 24%
Sandbag lunges 63% 28%
Wall balls 62% 3%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 11%
Runs (8 km) 51% 11%

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

Luke · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:21:00
5:124:294:412:304:494:315:024:045:144:465:081:585:064:425:256:077:22
Alai · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:51:20
3:495:314:264:015:078:265:106:275:385:405:002:265:086:077:2715:5015:15
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.Luke · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 40:37 running, 33:08 at the stations and 7:22 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:07).Below, Alai · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 41:45 running, 54:28 at the stations and 15:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:50).

See the numbers
Part Luke · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men Alai · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:12 3:49
SkiErg 4:29 5:31
Run 2 4:41 4:26
Sled push 2:30 4:01
Run 3 4:49 5:07
Sled pull 4:31 8:26
Run 4 5:02 5:10
Burpee broad jump 4:04 6:27
Run 5 5:14 5:38
Row 4:46 5:40
Run 6 5:08 5:00
Farmers carry 1:58 2:26
Run 7 5:06 5:08
Sandbag lunges 4:42 6:07
Run 8 5:25 7:27
Wall balls 6:07 15:50
Roxzone 7:22 15:15
Finish 1:21:00 1:51:20

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Luke Alai Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:51:22 1:51:20 0:02 · Alai faster
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