Ben vs Tom

AUS AUS · Open Men · 6 results

Ben Salkeld

1:19:44 best Open Men time · Brisbane 2025
521st of 1,368 place in that race · 1,368 Open Men finishers
NZL NZL · Open Men · 3 results

Tom Dames

1:24:02 best Open Men time · Sydney 2025
1168th of 2,104 place in that race · 2,104 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: Brisbane 2025, Open Men · Tom: Sydney 2025, Open Men

top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
BenTomedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Ben and Tom sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ben: strongest on Lunges (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 37%).Tom: strongest on Push (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 25%).

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Part Ben: faster than Tom: faster than
Ski 65% 43%
Push 70% 83%
Pull 37% 25%
BBJ 48% 65%
Row 72% 48%
Carry 47% 27%
Lunges 84% 64%
Wall balls 66% 65%
Roxzone 53% 29%
Runs 60% 34%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Tom
SkiErg 65% 43%
Sled push 70% 83%
Sled pull 37% 25%
Burpee broad jump 48% 65%
Row 72% 48%
Farmers carry 47% 27%
Sandbag lunges 84% 64%
Wall balls 66% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 53% 29%
Runs (8 km) 60% 34%

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

Ben · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men1:19:44
2:324:134:452:195:204:555:155:355:264:315:272:105:154:075:315:287:03
Tom · Sydney 2025 · Open Men1:24:02
4:234:234:371:564:495:194:544:515:004:414:562:305:004:496:535:389:30
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.Ben · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men: 39:31 running, 33:19 at the stations and 7:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:35).Below, Tom · Sydney 2025 · Open Men: 40:32 running, 34:07 at the stations and 9:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:38) and the shortest the sled push (1:56).

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Part Ben · Brisbane 2025 · Open Men Tom · Sydney 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:32 4:23
SkiErg 4:13 4:23
Run 2 4:45 4:37
Sled push 2:19 1:56
Run 3 5:20 4:49
Sled pull 4:55 5:19
Run 4 5:15 4:54
Burpee broad jump 5:35 4:51
Run 5 5:26 5:00
Row 4:31 4:41
Run 6 5:27 4:56
Farmers carry 2:10 2:30
Run 7 5:15 5:00
Sandbag lunges 4:07 4:49
Run 8 5:31 6:53
Wall balls 5:28 5:38
Roxzone 7:03 9:30
Finish 1:19:44 1:24:02

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Ben Tom Gap
Sydney 2025 Open Men · 4 Jul 2025 1:24:00 1:24:02 0:02 · Ben faster
Melbourne 2024 Open Men · 28 Jun 2024 1:20:29 1:42:53 22:24 · Ben faster
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