Niels vs Mike

NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Niels Palm

1:17:28 best Open Men time · Utrecht 2025
366th of 1,912 place in that race · 1,912 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 7 results

Mike van Brederode

1:02:54 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2024
41st of 2,198 place in that race · 2,198 Open Men finishers

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

Niels: Utrecht 2025, Open Men · Mike: Amsterdam 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Niels and Mike sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Niels: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 45%).Mike: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 70%).

See the numbers
Part Niels: faster than Mike: faster than
Ski 70% 78%
Push 73% 85%
Pull 80% 93%
BBJ 55% 99%
Row 45% 96%
Carry 63% 70%
Lunges 72% 90%
Wall balls 88% 99%
Roxzone 84% 97%
Runs 78% 97%

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

Part by part

Part Niels Mike
SkiErg 70% 78%
Sled push 73% 85%
Sled pull 80% 93%
Burpee broad jump 55% 99%
Row 45% 96%
Farmers carry 63% 70%
Sandbag lunges 72% 90%
Wall balls 88% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 84% 97%
Runs (8 km) 78% 97%

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

Niels · Utrecht 2025 · Open Men1:17:28
4:134:214:193:144:594:175:195:315:374:525:312:065:074:304:015:124:26
Mike · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men1:02:54
2:434:134:011:574:113:144:133:024:174:144:241:474:283:414:513:404:04
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.Niels · Utrecht 2025 · Open Men: 39:07 running, 34:03 at the stations and 4:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:31).Below, Mike · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men: 33:08 running, 25:47 at the stations and 4:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:14).

See the numbers
Part Niels · Utrecht 2025 · Open Men Mike · Amsterdam 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:13 2:43
SkiErg 4:21 4:13
Run 2 4:19 4:01
Sled push 3:14 1:57
Run 3 4:59 4:11
Sled pull 4:17 3:14
Run 4 5:19 4:13
Burpee broad jump 5:31 3:02
Run 5 5:37 4:17
Row 4:52 4:14
Run 6 5:31 4:24
Farmers carry 2:06 1:47
Run 7 5:07 4:28
Sandbag lunges 4:30 3:41
Run 8 4:01 4:51
Wall balls 5:12 3:40
Roxzone 4:26 4:04
Finish 1:17:28 1:02:54

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Niels Mike Gap
Utrecht 2025 Open Men · 28 Nov 2025 1:17:28 1:17:25 0:03 · Mike faster
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