Matthew vs Chris

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Matthew Shoard

1:49:11 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3498th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Chris Pook

1:50:53 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
5140th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Chris: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Chris sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Lunges (faster than 27% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 3%).Chris: strongest on Ski (faster than 47% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 5%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Chris: faster than
Ski 3% 47%
Push 8% 16%
Pull 19% 10%
BBJ 10% 9%
Row 8% 13%
Carry 14% 10%
Lunges 27% 8%
Wall balls 11% 5%
Roxzone 18% 9%
Runs 12% 10%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Chris
SkiErg 3% 47%
Sled push 8% 16%
Sled pull 19% 10%
Burpee broad jump 10% 9%
Row 8% 13%
Farmers carry 14% 10%
Sandbag lunges 27% 8%
Wall balls 11% 5%
Roxzone (moving) 18% 9%
Runs (8 km) 12% 10%

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

Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:49:11
6:175:155:224:575:396:175:578:326:375:335:542:536:056:087:3711:428:36
Chris · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:50:53
3:534:524:313:294:416:374:538:385:185:305:142:525:137:578:1013:3715:38
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.Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 49:28 running, 51:16 at the stations and 8:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:42).Below, Chris · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 41:53 running, 53:32 at the stations and 15:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:37).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Chris · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:17 3:53
SkiErg 5:15 4:52
Run 2 5:22 4:31
Sled push 4:57 3:29
Run 3 5:39 4:41
Sled pull 6:17 6:37
Run 4 5:57 4:53
Burpee broad jump 8:32 8:38
Run 5 6:37 5:18
Row 5:33 5:30
Run 6 5:54 5:14
Farmers carry 2:53 2:52
Run 7 6:05 5:13
Sandbag lunges 6:08 7:57
Run 8 7:37 8:10
Wall balls 11:42 13:37
Roxzone 8:36 15:38
Finish 1:49:11 1:50:53

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Chris Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:50:40 1:50:53 0:13 · Matthew faster
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