Karen vs Paula

GBR GBR · Open Women · 5 results

Karen Sharp

1:52:00 best Open Women time · Birmingham 2025
1617th of 1,957 place in that race · 1,957 Open Women finishers
POL POL · Open Women · 1 result

Paula Milczanowska

1:55:22 best Open Women time · Poznań 2025
574th of 657 place in that race · 657 Open Women finishers

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

Karen: Birmingham 2025, Open Women · Paula: Poznań 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Karen and Paula sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Karen: strongest on Pull (faster than 60% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 7%).Paula: strongest on Runs (faster than 40% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 3%).

See the numbers
Part Karen: faster than Paula: faster than
Ski 25% 19%
Push 28% 8%
Pull 60% 3%
BBJ 14% 11%
Row 10% 24%
Carry 58% 5%
Lunges 7% 6%
Wall balls 9% 7%
Roxzone 15% 14%
Runs 24% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Karen Paula
SkiErg 25% 19%
Sled push 28% 8%
Sled pull 60% 3%
Burpee broad jump 14% 11%
Row 10% 24%
Farmers carry 58% 5%
Sandbag lunges 7% 6%
Wall balls 9% 7%
Roxzone (moving) 15% 14%
Runs (8 km) 24% 40%

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

Karen · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women1:52:00
7:285:306:033:296:115:396:109:306:096:116:152:126:147:586:4010:509:39
Paula · Poznań 2025 · Open Women1:55:22
5:225:515:523:435:599:265:589:516:126:006:053:386:198:027:0611:238:44
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.Karen · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women: 51:10 running, 51:19 at the stations and 9:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:50).Below, Paula · Poznań 2025 · Open Women: 48:53 running, 57:53 at the stations and 8:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:23).

See the numbers
Part Karen · Birmingham 2025 · Open Women Paula · Poznań 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 7:28 5:22
SkiErg 5:30 5:51
Run 2 6:03 5:52
Sled push 3:29 3:43
Run 3 6:11 5:59
Sled pull 5:39 9:26
Run 4 6:10 5:58
Burpee broad jump 9:30 9:51
Run 5 6:09 6:12
Row 6:11 6:00
Run 6 6:15 6:05
Farmers carry 2:12 3:38
Run 7 6:14 6:19
Sandbag lunges 7:58 8:02
Run 8 6:40 7:06
Wall balls 10:50 11:23
Roxzone 9:39 8:44
Finish 1:52:00 1:55:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Karen Paula Gap
Poznań 2025 Open Women · 13 Dec 2025 1:55:18 1:55:22 0:04 · Karen faster
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