Karl vs Josh

GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Karl Gillingham

1:30:08 best Open Men time · London 2024
1454th of 2,324 place in that race · 2,324 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Josh Walker

1:31:48 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
3952nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Karl: London 2024, Open Men · Josh: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Karl and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Karl: strongest on Carry (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 28%).Josh: strongest on Carry (faster than 76% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 14%).

See the numbers
Part Karl: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 45% 54%
Push 57% 73%
Pull 56% 22%
BBJ 30% 25%
Row 62% 66%
Carry 73% 76%
Lunges 29% 14%
Wall balls 28% 26%
Roxzone 44% 35%
Runs 33% 31%

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

Part by part

Part Karl Josh
SkiErg 45% 54%
Sled push 57% 73%
Sled pull 56% 22%
Burpee broad jump 30% 25%
Row 62% 66%
Farmers carry 73% 76%
Sandbag lunges 29% 14%
Wall balls 28% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 44% 35%
Runs (8 km) 33% 31%

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

Karl · London 2024 · Open Men1:30:08
5:474:284:292:574:564:524:556:535:274:415:211:525:095:516:348:087:56
Josh · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:31:48
3:314:484:182:314:275:444:166:544:264:474:321:464:237:096:229:2112:41
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.Karl · London 2024 · Open Men: 42:38 running, 39:42 at the stations and 7:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:08).Below, Josh · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 36:15 running, 43:00 at the stations and 12:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:21).

See the numbers
Part Karl · London 2024 · Open Men Josh · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:47 3:31
SkiErg 4:28 4:48
Run 2 4:29 4:18
Sled push 2:57 2:31
Run 3 4:56 4:27
Sled pull 4:52 5:44
Run 4 4:55 4:16
Burpee broad jump 6:53 6:54
Run 5 5:27 4:26
Row 4:41 4:47
Run 6 5:21 4:32
Farmers carry 1:52 1:46
Run 7 5:09 4:23
Sandbag lunges 5:51 7:09
Run 8 6:34 6:22
Wall balls 8:08 9:21
Roxzone 7:56 12:41
Finish 1:30:08 1:31:48

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Karl Josh Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:31:48 1:31:48 level
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