James vs Luke

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

James Taylor

59:40 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
7th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 6 results

Luke Swan

1:04:35 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
49th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers

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

James: Birmingham 2024, Open Men · Luke: Ghent 2025, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
JamesLukeedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where James and Luke sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Lunges (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 87%).Luke: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 71%).

See the numbers
Part James: faster than Luke: faster than
Ski 87% 91%
Push 96% 87%
Pull 96% 97%
BBJ 98% 96%
Row 98% 97%
Carry 99% 71%
Lunges 99% 86%
Wall balls 98% 95%
Roxzone 99% 98%
Runs 99% 94%

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

Part by part

Part James Luke
SkiErg 87% 91%
Sled push 96% 87%
Sled pull 96% 97%
Burpee broad jump 98% 96%
Row 98% 97%
Farmers carry 99% 71%
Sandbag lunges 99% 86%
Wall balls 98% 95%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 98%
Runs (8 km) 99% 94%

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

James · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men59:40
4:064:073:242:043:373:253:463:133:484:113:461:193:482:383:584:064:32
Luke · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:04:35
3:574:113:492:303:533:313:533:284:194:154:041:494:013:494:114:304:32
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.James · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 30:14 running, 25:04 at the stations and 4:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:11).Below, Luke · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 32:07 running, 28:04 at the stations and 4:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:30).

See the numbers
Part James · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men Luke · Ghent 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:06 3:57
SkiErg 4:07 4:11
Run 2 3:24 3:49
Sled push 2:04 2:30
Run 3 3:37 3:53
Sled pull 3:25 3:31
Run 4 3:46 3:53
Burpee broad jump 3:13 3:28
Run 5 3:48 4:19
Row 4:11 4:15
Run 6 3:46 4:04
Farmers carry 1:19 1:49
Run 7 3:48 4:01
Sandbag lunges 2:38 3:49
Run 8 3:58 4:11
Wall balls 4:06 4:30
Roxzone 4:32 4:32
Finish 59:40 1:04:35

Head to head: 3 races they both ran

Race James Luke Gap
London 2024 Open Men · 1 Dec 2024 1:44:49 1:12:34 32:15 · Luke faster
London 2024 Open Men · 1 Dec 2024 1:26:26 1:12:34 13:52 · Luke faster
London 2024 Open Men · 1 Dec 2024 1:12:31 1:12:34 0:03 · James faster
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