Joel vs Darren

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Joel Cottrell

1:30:04 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3772nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Darren Zwiers

1:30:04 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3774th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Joel: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Darren: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Joel and Darren sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joel: strongest on Carry (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 18%).Darren: strongest on Ski (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 14%).

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Part Joel: faster than Darren: faster than
Ski 51% 70%
Push 65% 42%
Pull 43% 37%
BBJ 39% 49%
Row 27% 25%
Carry 90% 14%
Lunges 39% 20%
Wall balls 60% 27%
Roxzone 22% 27%
Runs 18% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Joel Darren
SkiErg 51% 70%
Sled push 65% 42%
Sled pull 43% 37%
Burpee broad jump 39% 49%
Row 27% 25%
Farmers carry 90% 14%
Sandbag lunges 39% 20%
Wall balls 60% 27%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 27%
Runs (8 km) 18% 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

Joel · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:30:04
3:414:504:232:374:304:594:396:014:555:124:561:354:435:347:106:4213:48
Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:30:04
3:074:403:552:554:075:104:045:344:225:144:162:424:136:366:429:1613:17
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.Joel · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 38:57 running, 37:30 at the stations and 13:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:42).Below, Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 34:47 running, 42:08 at the stations and 13:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:16).

See the numbers
Part Joel · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:41 3:07
SkiErg 4:50 4:40
Run 2 4:23 3:55
Sled push 2:37 2:55
Run 3 4:30 4:07
Sled pull 4:59 5:10
Run 4 4:39 4:04
Burpee broad jump 6:01 5:34
Run 5 4:55 4:22
Row 5:12 5:14
Run 6 4:56 4:16
Farmers carry 1:35 2:42
Run 7 4:43 4:13
Sandbag lunges 5:34 6:36
Run 8 7:10 6:42
Wall balls 6:42 9:16
Roxzone 13:48 13:17
Finish 1:30:04 1:30:04

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joel Darren Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:30:04 1:30:04 level
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