Samuel vs Thomas

USA USA · Open Men · 1 result

Samuel Akpan

1:30:52 best Open Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
460th of 814 place in that race · 814 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Thomas Watkinson

1:30:50 best Open Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
459th of 814 place in that race · 814 Open Men finishers

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

Samuel: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men · Thomas: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJ
no split
RowCarryLunges
no split
Wall ballsRoxzoneRuns
SamuelThomasedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Samuel and Thomas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Samuel: strongest on Carry (faster than 71% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 10%).Thomas: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 22%).

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Part Samuel: faster than Thomas: faster than
Ski 18% 50%
Push 10% 26%
Pull 61% 45%
BBJ no split 22%
Row 41% 63%
Carry 71% 37%
Lunges no split 54%
Wall balls 30% 29%
Roxzone 32% 64%
Runs 15% 43%

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

Part by part

Part Samuel Thomas
SkiErg 18% 50%
Sled push 10% 26%
Sled pull 61% 45%
Burpee broad jump — 22%
Row 41% 63%
Farmers carry 71% 37%
Sandbag lunges — 54%
Wall balls 30% 29%
Roxzone (moving) 32% 64%
Runs (8 km) 15% 43%

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

Samuel · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men1:30:52
4:284:476:204:016:504:377:237:074:567:371:527:006:317:168:37
Thomas · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men1:30:50
3:454:295:263:275:415:015:507:235:594:435:512:165:565:125:587:196:40
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.Samuel · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 53:16 running, 27:29 at the stations and 8:37 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:16).Below, Thomas · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men: 44:25 running, 39:50 at the stations and 6:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:23).

See the numbers
Part Samuel · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men Thomas · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:28 3:45
SkiErg 4:47 4:29
Run 2 6:20 5:26
Sled push 4:01 3:27
Run 3 6:50 5:41
Sled pull 4:37 5:01
Run 4 7:23 5:50
Burpee broad jump — 7:23
Run 5 7:07 5:59
Row 4:56 4:43
Run 6 7:37 5:51
Farmers carry 1:52 2:16
Run 7 7:00 5:56
Sandbag lunges — 5:12
Run 8 6:31 5:58
Wall balls 7:16 7:19
Roxzone 8:37 6:40
Finish 1:30:52 1:30:50

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Samuel Thomas Gap
Chicago Navy Pier 2024 Open Men · 16 Nov 2024 1:30:52 1:30:50 0:02 · Thomas faster
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