Vincent vs Brandon

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Vincent Ricketts

1:50:59 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
577th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Brandon Ackermann

1:50:47 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
484th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers

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

Vincent: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Brandon: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men

Not the same division. Vincent's race here is Open Men and Brandon's is Pro Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

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

This chart shows where Vincent and Brandon sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Vincent: strongest on Runs (faster than 45% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 5%).Brandon: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 24% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 8%).

See the numbers
Part Vincent: faster than Brandon: faster than
Ski 5% 21%
Push 27% 19%
Pull 34% 20%
BBJ 17% 8%
Row 12% 16%
Carry 35% 22%
Lunges 21% 10%
Wall balls 5% 19%
Roxzone 35% 24%
Runs 45% 16%

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

Part by part

Part Vincent Brandon
SkiErg 5% 21%
Sled push 27% 19%
Sled pull 34% 20%
Burpee broad jump 17% 8%
Row 12% 16%
Farmers carry 35% 22%
Sandbag lunges 21% 10%
Wall balls 5% 19%
Roxzone (moving) 35% 24%
Runs (8 km) 45% 16%

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

Vincent · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:50:59
3:545:125:543:416:255:576:158:276:295:526:072:226:166:587:2415:268:29
Brandon · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:41:34
4:044:265:484:115:566:476:086:376:014:576:122:486:217:107:2810:046:43
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.Vincent · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 48:44 running, 53:55 at the stations and 8:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (15:26).Below, Brandon · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 47:58 running, 47:00 at the stations and 6:43 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:04).

See the numbers
Part Vincent · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Brandon · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men
Run 1 3:54 4:04
SkiErg 5:12 4:26
Run 2 5:54 5:48
Sled push 3:41 4:11
Run 3 6:25 5:56
Sled pull 5:57 6:47
Run 4 6:15 6:08
Burpee broad jump 8:27 6:37
Run 5 6:29 6:01
Row 5:52 4:57
Run 6 6:07 6:12
Farmers carry 2:22 2:48
Run 7 6:16 6:21
Sandbag lunges 6:58 7:10
Run 8 7:24 7:28
Wall balls 15:26 10:04
Roxzone 8:29 6:43
Finish 1:50:59 1:41:34

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Vincent Brandon Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:56:45 1:56:53 0:08 · Vincent faster
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 2:03:41 2:01:15 2:26 · Brandon faster
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