Stefan vs Elias

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Stefan Melde

1:27:41 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
923rd of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 10 results

Elias Karsten

1:21:50 best Open Men time · Istanbul 2026
292nd of 744 place in that race · 744 Open Men finishers

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

Stefan: Hamburg 2025, Open Men · Elias: Istanbul 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stefan and Elias sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stefan: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 11%).Elias: strongest on Pull (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 24%).

See the numbers
Part Stefan: faster than Elias: faster than
Ski 11% 87%
Push 97% 47%
Pull 69% 88%
BBJ 29% 45%
Row 74% 68%
Carry 73% 85%
Lunges 77% 24%
Wall balls 22% 68%
Roxzone 50% 41%
Runs 50% 63%

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

Part by part

Part Stefan Elias
SkiErg 11% 87%
Sled push 97% 47%
Sled pull 69% 88%
Burpee broad jump 29% 45%
Row 74% 68%
Farmers carry 73% 85%
Sandbag lunges 77% 24%
Wall balls 22% 68%
Roxzone (moving) 50% 41%
Runs (8 km) 50% 63%

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

Stefan · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men1:27:41
5:394:514:402:085:034:185:056:435:084:375:061:504:534:295:599:307:51
Elias · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men1:21:50
4:584:124:102:504:143:414:255:304:394:354:381:454:466:325:155:4710:04
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.Stefan · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 41:32 running, 38:26 at the stations and 7:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:30).Below, Elias · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men: 37:05 running, 34:51 at the stations and 10:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:32).

See the numbers
Part Stefan · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men Elias · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:39 4:58
SkiErg 4:51 4:12
Run 2 4:40 4:10
Sled push 2:08 2:50
Run 3 5:03 4:14
Sled pull 4:18 3:41
Run 4 5:05 4:25
Burpee broad jump 6:43 5:30
Run 5 5:08 4:39
Row 4:37 4:35
Run 6 5:06 4:38
Farmers carry 1:50 1:45
Run 7 4:53 4:46
Sandbag lunges 4:29 6:32
Run 8 5:59 5:15
Wall balls 9:30 5:47
Roxzone 7:51 10:04
Finish 1:27:41 1:21:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stefan Elias Gap
Hamburg 2025 Open Men · 3 Oct 2025 1:27:41 1:27:44 0:03 · Stefan faster
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