Willie vs Vladimir

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Willie Smit

1:26:16 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
239th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
HYROX · Open Men · 2 results

Vladimir Poluektov

1:40:56 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
269th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Willie: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Vladimir: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Willie and Vladimir sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Willie: strongest on Pull (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 41%).Vladimir: strongest on Push (faster than 85% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 39%).

See the numbers
Part Willie: faster than Vladimir: faster than
Ski 78% 45%
Push 85% 85%
Pull 91% 69%
BBJ 62% 75%
Row 80% 39%
Carry 59% 61%
Lunges 43% 82%
Wall balls 67% 69%
Roxzone 41% 45%
Runs 69% 41%

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

Part by part

Part Willie Vladimir
SkiErg 78% 45%
Sled push 85% 85%
Sled pull 91% 69%
Burpee broad jump 62% 75%
Row 80% 39%
Farmers carry 59% 61%
Sandbag lunges 43% 82%
Wall balls 67% 69%
Roxzone (moving) 41% 45%
Runs (8 km) 69% 41%

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

Willie · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:26:16
3:274:134:472:265:173:515:435:275:454:415:432:045:395:496:486:428:00
Vladimir · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:40:56
4:174:555:582:556:175:149:075:386:595:206:392:116:314:327:297:259:36
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.Willie · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 43:09 running, 35:13 at the stations and 8:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:42).Below, Vladimir · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 53:17 running, 38:10 at the stations and 9:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:25).

See the numbers
Part Willie · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Vladimir · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:27 4:17
SkiErg 4:13 4:55
Run 2 4:47 5:58
Sled push 2:26 2:55
Run 3 5:17 6:17
Sled pull 3:51 5:14
Run 4 5:43 9:07
Burpee broad jump 5:27 5:38
Run 5 5:45 6:59
Row 4:41 5:20
Run 6 5:43 6:39
Farmers carry 2:04 2:11
Run 7 5:39 6:31
Sandbag lunges 5:49 4:32
Run 8 6:48 7:29
Wall balls 6:42 7:25
Roxzone 8:00 9:36
Finish 1:26:16 1:40:56

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Willie Vladimir Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:40:50 1:40:56 0:06 · Willie faster
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:26:16 1:42:00 15:44 · Willie faster
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