Etienne vs Aqil

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Etienne Barnard

1:37:37 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
233rd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 9 results

Aqil Alibhai

1:12:37 best Open Men time · Istanbul 2026
129th of 744 place in that race · 744 Open Men finishers

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

Etienne: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men · Aqil: Istanbul 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Etienne and Aqil sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Etienne: strongest on Lunges (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 30%).Aqil: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 68%).

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Part Etienne: faster than Aqil: faster than
Ski 40% 69%
Push 58% 89%
Pull 54% 80%
BBJ 44% 69%
Row 63% 68%
Carry 30% 75%
Lunges 83% 79%
Wall balls 70% 99%
Roxzone 74% 75%
Runs 56% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Etienne Aqil
SkiErg 40% 69%
Sled push 58% 89%
Sled pull 54% 80%
Burpee broad jump 44% 69%
Row 63% 68%
Farmers carry 30% 75%
Sandbag lunges 83% 79%
Wall balls 70% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 75%
Runs (8 km) 56% 72%

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

Etienne · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:37:37
6:004:585:223:385:495:476:067:156:204:586:162:396:194:317:007:197:29
Aqil · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men1:12:37
5:044:214:072:124:183:554:124:394:254:354:251:534:214:174:383:307:54
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.Etienne · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 49:13 running, 41:05 at the stations and 7:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:19).Below, Aqil · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men: 35:31 running, 29:22 at the stations and 7:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (4:39).

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Part Etienne · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men Aqil · Istanbul 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:00 5:04
SkiErg 4:58 4:21
Run 2 5:22 4:07
Sled push 3:38 2:12
Run 3 5:49 4:18
Sled pull 5:47 3:55
Run 4 6:06 4:12
Burpee broad jump 7:15 4:39
Run 5 6:20 4:25
Row 4:58 4:35
Run 6 6:16 4:25
Farmers carry 2:39 1:53
Run 7 6:19 4:21
Sandbag lunges 4:31 4:17
Run 8 7:00 4:38
Wall balls 7:19 3:30
Roxzone 7:29 7:54
Finish 1:37:37 1:12:37

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Etienne Aqil Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:37:37 1:37:21 0:16 · Aqil faster
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