Don vs Hugh

AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Don Pham

2:56:05 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
3316th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 1 result

Hugh Palethorpe

3:00:22 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
3317th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Don: Sydney 2026, Open Men · Hugh: Sydney 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Don and Hugh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Don: strongest on Pull (faster than 4% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 0%).Hugh: strongest on Ski (faster than 21% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 0%).

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Part Don: faster than Hugh: faster than
Ski 2% 21%
Push 0% 0%
Pull 4% 4%
BBJ 2% 0%
Row 2% 2%
Carry 1% 10%
Lunges 0% 5%
Wall balls 0% 3%
Roxzone 3% 2%
Runs 1% 0%

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

Part by part

Part Don Hugh
SkiErg 2% 21%
Sled push 0% 0%
Sled pull 4% 4%
Burpee broad jump 2% 0%
Row 2% 2%
Farmers carry 1% 10%
Sandbag lunges 0% 5%
Wall balls 0% 3%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 2%
Runs (8 km) 1% 0%

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

Don · Sydney 2026 · Open Men2:56:05
5:345:276:355:497:427:267:3712:1910:366:067:414:228:0019:2114:1332:5014:34
Hugh · Sydney 2026 · Open Men3:00:22
5:434:446:3810:0612:447:2914:2616:0318:306:029:363:008:5210:1415:5615:3714:49
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.Don · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 1:07:58 running, 1:33:40 at the stations and 14:34 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (32:50).Below, Hugh · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 1:32:25 running, 1:13:14 at the stations and 14:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (16:03).

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Part Don · Sydney 2026 · Open Men Hugh · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 5:34 5:43
SkiErg 5:27 4:44
Run 2 6:35 6:38
Sled push 5:49 10:06
Run 3 7:42 12:44
Sled pull 7:26 7:29
Run 4 7:37 14:26
Burpee broad jump 12:19 16:03
Run 5 10:36 18:30
Row 6:06 6:02
Run 6 7:41 9:36
Farmers carry 4:22 3:00
Run 7 8:00 8:52
Sandbag lunges 19:21 10:14
Run 8 14:13 15:56
Wall balls 32:50 15:37
Roxzone 14:34 14:49
Finish 2:56:05 3:00:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Don Hugh Gap
Sydney 2026 Open Men · 1 Jul 2026 2:56:05 3:00:22 4:17 · Don faster
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