Chris vs Joshua

NZL NZL · Open Men · 4 results

Chris Sanson

1:36:02 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2024
420th of 595 place in that race · 595 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Joshua Brown

2:01:03 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
2038th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers

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

Chris: Brisbane 2024, Open Men · Joshua: Sydney 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Chris and Joshua sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Chris: strongest on Row (faster than 56% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 8%).Joshua: strongest on Push (faster than 32% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).

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Part Chris: faster than Joshua: faster than
Ski 48% 10%
Push 31% 32%
Pull 26% 6%
BBJ 35% 7%
Row 56% 5%
Carry 31% 7%
Lunges 8% 11%
Wall balls 44% 21%
Roxzone 42% 0%
Runs 30% 3%

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

Part by part

Part Chris Joshua
SkiErg 48% 10%
Sled push 31% 32%
Sled pull 26% 6%
Burpee broad jump 35% 7%
Row 56% 5%
Farmers carry 31% 7%
Sandbag lunges 8% 11%
Wall balls 44% 21%
Roxzone (moving) 42% 0%
Runs (8 km) 30% 3%

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

Chris · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men1:36:02
3:444:205:283:025:485:516:046:246:164:416:232:356:278:496:376:526:48
Joshua · Sydney 2025 · Open Men2:01:03
4:464:465:152:336:336:507:008:277:265:307:273:116:487:3910:098:2018:32
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.Chris · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men: 46:47 running, 42:34 at the stations and 6:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (8:49).Below, Joshua · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 55:24 running, 47:16 at the stations and 18:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:27) and the shortest the sled push (2:33).

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Part Chris · Brisbane 2024 · Open Men Joshua · Sydney 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:44 4:46
SkiErg 4:20 4:46
Run 2 5:28 5:15
Sled push 3:02 2:33
Run 3 5:48 6:33
Sled pull 5:51 6:50
Run 4 6:04 7:00
Burpee broad jump 6:24 8:27
Run 5 6:16 7:26
Row 4:41 5:30
Run 6 6:23 7:27
Farmers carry 2:35 3:11
Run 7 6:27 6:48
Sandbag lunges 8:49 7:39
Run 8 6:37 10:09
Wall balls 6:52 8:20
Roxzone 6:48 18:32
Finish 1:36:02 2:01:03

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Chris Joshua Gap
Sydney 2025 Open Men · 4 Jul 2025 2:00:11 2:01:03 0:52 · Chris faster
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