Ross vs Kai-Wen

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Ross McFadden

1:17:05 best Open Men time · Perth 2025
248th of 855 place in that race · 855 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 6 results

Kai-Wen Hsiao

1:10:49 best Open Men time · Sydney 2026
412th of 3,324 place in that race · 3,324 Open Men finishers

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

Ross: Perth 2025, Open Men · Kai-Wen: Sydney 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
RossKai-Wenedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Ross and Kai-Wen sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ross: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 28%).Kai-Wen: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 30%).

See the numbers
Part Ross: faster than Kai-Wen: faster than
Ski 28% 30%
Push 97% 30%
Pull 39% 64%
BBJ 56% 87%
Row 35% 45%
Carry 65% 60%
Lunges 66% 88%
Wall balls 70% 83%
Roxzone 82% 95%
Runs 72% 90%

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

Part by part

Part Ross Kai-Wen
SkiErg 28% 30%
Sled push 97% 30%
Sled pull 39% 64%
Burpee broad jump 56% 87%
Row 35% 45%
Farmers carry 65% 60%
Sandbag lunges 66% 88%
Wall balls 70% 83%
Roxzone (moving) 82% 95%
Runs (8 km) 72% 90%

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

Ross · Perth 2025 · Open Men1:17:05
4:364:304:031:584:295:124:295:304:245:024:121:564:364:534:415:496:53
Kai-Wen · Sydney 2026 · Open Men1:10:49
3:214:373:432:553:564:063:524:134:044:483:571:584:024:075:375:156:25
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.Ross · Perth 2025 · Open Men: 35:29 running, 34:50 at the stations and 6:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:49).Below, Kai-Wen · Sydney 2026 · Open Men: 32:32 running, 32:00 at the stations and 6:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:15).

See the numbers
Part Ross · Perth 2025 · Open Men Kai-Wen · Sydney 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:36 3:21
SkiErg 4:30 4:37
Run 2 4:03 3:43
Sled push 1:58 2:55
Run 3 4:29 3:56
Sled pull 5:12 4:06
Run 4 4:29 3:52
Burpee broad jump 5:30 4:13
Run 5 4:24 4:04
Row 5:02 4:48
Run 6 4:12 3:57
Farmers carry 1:56 1:58
Run 7 4:36 4:02
Sandbag lunges 4:53 4:07
Run 8 4:41 5:37
Wall balls 5:49 5:15
Roxzone 6:53 6:25
Finish 1:17:05 1:10:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ross Kai-Wen Gap
Perth 2025 Open Men · 5 Sep 2025 1:17:05 1:17:02 0:03 · Kai-Wen faster
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