Thomas vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 12 results

Thomas Gilbert

1:13:19 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1244th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 12 results

James Richardson

1:11:23 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2026
460th of 2,671 place in that race · 2,671 Open Men finishers

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

Thomas: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · James: Mechelen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Thomas and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Thomas: strongest on Runs (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 15%).James: strongest on Carry (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 53%).

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Part Thomas: faster than James: faster than
Ski 43% 65%
Push 27% 90%
Pull 42% 84%
BBJ 70% 85%
Row 73% 84%
Carry 15% 99%
Lunges 87% 70%
Wall balls 84% 53%
Roxzone 72% 86%
Runs 87% 79%

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

Part by part

Part Thomas James
SkiErg 43% 65%
Sled push 27% 90%
Sled pull 42% 84%
Burpee broad jump 70% 85%
Row 73% 84%
Farmers carry 15% 99%
Sandbag lunges 87% 70%
Wall balls 84% 53%
Roxzone (moving) 72% 86%
Runs (8 km) 87% 79%

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

Thomas · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:13:19
2:534:543:143:103:225:023:274:463:234:433:292:403:273:575:065:2210:32
James · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men1:11:23
3:234:214:082:074:183:364:234:114:274:264:211:254:294:244:366:356:20
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.Thomas · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 28:20 running, 34:35 at the stations and 10:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:22).Below, James · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men: 34:04 running, 31:05 at the stations and 6:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:35).

See the numbers
Part Thomas · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men James · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:53 3:23
SkiErg 4:54 4:21
Run 2 3:14 4:08
Sled push 3:10 2:07
Run 3 3:22 4:18
Sled pull 5:02 3:36
Run 4 3:27 4:23
Burpee broad jump 4:46 4:11
Run 5 3:23 4:27
Row 4:43 4:26
Run 6 3:29 4:21
Farmers carry 2:40 1:25
Run 7 3:27 4:29
Sandbag lunges 3:57 4:24
Run 8 5:06 4:36
Wall balls 5:22 6:35
Roxzone 10:32 6:20
Finish 1:13:19 1:11:23

Head to head: 3 races they both ran

Race Thomas James Gap
Cardiff 2026 Doubles Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:02:57 1:01:05 1:52 · James faster
London Olympia 2026 Open Men · 24 Mar 2026 1:15:59 1:15:57 0:02 · James faster
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:13:19 1:17:25 4:06 · Thomas faster
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