Matthew vs Gary

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Matthew Preston

2:22:40 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
1184th of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 10 results

Gary Gallen

2:03:53 best Open Men time · Turin 2026
2048th of 2,099 place in that race · 2,099 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Manchester 2025, Open Men · Gary: Turin 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Gary sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 10% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).Gary: strongest on Push (faster than 55% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 1%).

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Part Matthew: faster than Gary: faster than
Ski 6% 11%
Push 3% 55%
Pull 1% 30%
BBJ 0% 1%
Row 6% 3%
Carry 6% 21%
Lunges 3% 9%
Wall balls 10% 6%
Roxzone 1% 3%
Runs 1% 3%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Gary
SkiErg 6% 11%
Sled push 3% 55%
Sled pull 1% 30%
Burpee broad jump 0% 1%
Row 6% 3%
Farmers carry 6% 21%
Sandbag lunges 3% 9%
Wall balls 10% 6%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 3%
Runs (8 km) 1% 3%

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 · Manchester 2025 · Open Men2:22:40
5:304:498:083:588:447:589:2115:229:195:219:063:108:558:579:0410:2014:40
Gary · Turin 2026 · Open Men2:03:53
5:035:006:463:057:055:437:2611:147:256:037:312:327:547:548:4212:1112:25
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 · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 1:08:07 running, 59:56 at the stations and 14:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:22).Below, Gary · Turin 2026 · Open Men: 57:52 running, 53:41 at the stations and 12:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:11).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Manchester 2025 · Open Men Gary · Turin 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:30 5:03
SkiErg 4:49 5:00
Run 2 8:08 6:46
Sled push 3:58 3:05
Run 3 8:44 7:05
Sled pull 7:58 5:43
Run 4 9:21 7:26
Burpee broad jump 15:22 11:14
Run 5 9:19 7:25
Row 5:21 6:03
Run 6 9:06 7:31
Farmers carry 3:10 2:32
Run 7 8:55 7:54
Sandbag lunges 8:57 7:54
Run 8 9:04 8:42
Wall balls 10:20 12:11
Roxzone 14:40 12:25
Finish 2:22:40 2:03:53

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Gary Gap
Manchester 2025 Open Men · 24 Jan 2025 2:22:40 2:18:16 4:24 · Gary faster
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