Ray vs Varun

NED NED · Open Men · 2 results

Ray Heesterman

1:26:43 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2025
1242nd of 2,469 place in that race · 2,469 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Varun Arora

1:46:41 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2026
2360th of 2,721 place in that race · 2,721 Open Men finishers

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

Ray: Rotterdam 2025, Open Men · Varun: Rotterdam 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ray and Varun sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ray: strongest on Push (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 21%).Varun: strongest on Runs (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Ray: faster than Varun: faster than
Ski 21% 3%
Push 73% 9%
Pull 73% 2%
BBJ 50% 26%
Row 51% 19%
Carry 58% 8%
Lunges 36% 14%
Wall balls 71% 3%
Roxzone 55% 20%
Runs 37% 38%

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

Part by part

Part Ray Varun
SkiErg 21% 3%
Sled push 73% 9%
Sled pull 73% 2%
Burpee broad jump 50% 26%
Row 51% 19%
Farmers carry 58% 8%
Sandbag lunges 36% 14%
Wall balls 71% 3%
Roxzone (moving) 55% 20%
Runs (8 km) 37% 38%

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

Ray · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men1:26:43
5:314:407:352:315:174:275:205:455:384:445:142:024:515:345:525:136:36
Varun · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Men1:46:41
5:055:334:573:455:047:355:096:525:225:155:323:075:387:097:0315:018:42
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.Ray · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men: 45:17 running, 34:56 at the stations and 6:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:45).Below, Varun · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Men: 43:50 running, 54:17 at the stations and 8:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:01).

See the numbers
Part Ray · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men Varun · Rotterdam 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:31 5:05
SkiErg 4:40 5:33
Run 2 7:35 4:57
Sled push 2:31 3:45
Run 3 5:17 5:04
Sled pull 4:27 7:35
Run 4 5:20 5:09
Burpee broad jump 5:45 6:52
Run 5 5:38 5:22
Row 4:44 5:15
Run 6 5:14 5:32
Farmers carry 2:02 3:07
Run 7 4:51 5:38
Sandbag lunges 5:34 7:09
Run 8 5:52 7:03
Wall balls 5:13 15:01
Roxzone 6:36 8:42
Finish 1:26:43 1:46:41

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ray Varun Gap
Rotterdam 2026 Open Men · 15 Apr 2026 1:46:40 1:46:41 0:01 · Ray faster
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