Simon vs Mark

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Simon Hawes

1:38:36 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4543rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Mark Newton

1:41:46 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
2267th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

Simon: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Mark: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Simon and Mark sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Simon: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 34% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 3%).Mark: strongest on Carry (faster than 68% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 7%).

See the numbers
Part Simon: faster than Mark: faster than
Ski 3% 14%
Push 11% 17%
Pull 9% 22%
BBJ 30% 32%
Row 13% 7%
Carry 8% 68%
Lunges 17% 22%
Wall balls 14% 25%
Roxzone 34% 27%
Runs 28% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Simon Mark
SkiErg 3% 14%
Sled push 11% 17%
Sled pull 9% 22%
Burpee broad jump 30% 32%
Row 13% 7%
Farmers carry 8% 68%
Sandbag lunges 17% 22%
Wall balls 14% 25%
Roxzone (moving) 34% 27%
Runs (8 km) 28% 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

Simon · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:38:36
4:025:374:203:404:296:474:206:304:225:294:252:594:256:536:2411:1712:46
Mark · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:41:46
6:154:595:543:526:355:156:206:456:315:396:482:276:306:178:008:444:58
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.Simon · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:47 running, 49:11 at the stations and 12:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:17).Below, Mark · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 52:53 running, 43:58 at the stations and 4:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:44).

See the numbers
Part Simon · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Mark · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:02 6:15
SkiErg 5:37 4:59
Run 2 4:20 5:54
Sled push 3:40 3:52
Run 3 4:29 6:35
Sled pull 6:47 5:15
Run 4 4:20 6:20
Burpee broad jump 6:30 6:45
Run 5 4:22 6:31
Row 5:29 5:39
Run 6 4:25 6:48
Farmers carry 2:59 2:27
Run 7 4:25 6:30
Sandbag lunges 6:53 6:17
Run 8 6:24 8:00
Wall balls 11:17 8:44
Roxzone 12:46 4:58
Finish 1:38:36 1:41:46

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Simon Mark Gap
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:43:26 1:43:22 0:04 · Mark faster
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