Gareth vs Matthew

GBR GBR · Open Men · 21 results

Gareth Abreu

1:21:27 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1586th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 7 results

Matthew Saunders

1:16:53 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
1803rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Gareth: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Matthew: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Gareth and Matthew sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Gareth: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 74% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 33%).Matthew: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 78% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 24%).

See the numbers
Part Gareth: faster than Matthew: faster than
Ski 64% 31%
Push 49% 47%
Pull 59% 61%
BBJ 40% 74%
Row 64% 42%
Carry 33% 24%
Lunges 35% 69%
Wall balls 58% 78%
Roxzone 74% 71%
Runs 64% 63%

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

Part by part

Part Gareth Matthew
SkiErg 64% 31%
Sled push 49% 47%
Sled pull 59% 61%
Burpee broad jump 40% 74%
Row 64% 42%
Farmers carry 33% 24%
Sandbag lunges 35% 69%
Wall balls 58% 78%
Roxzone (moving) 74% 71%
Runs (8 km) 64% 63%

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

Gareth · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:21:27
5:054:244:223:174:334:474:376:035:034:414:362:264:445:454:456:485:41
Matthew · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:16:53
3:225:013:452:513:504:313:484:323:565:013:472:273:544:345:215:4410:36
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.Gareth · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 37:45 running, 38:10 at the stations and 5:41 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:48).Below, Matthew · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 31:43 running, 34:41 at the stations and 10:36 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:44).

See the numbers
Part Gareth · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Matthew · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:05 3:22
SkiErg 4:24 5:01
Run 2 4:22 3:45
Sled push 3:17 2:51
Run 3 4:33 3:50
Sled pull 4:47 4:31
Run 4 4:37 3:48
Burpee broad jump 6:03 4:32
Run 5 5:03 3:56
Row 4:41 5:01
Run 6 4:36 3:47
Farmers carry 2:26 2:27
Run 7 4:44 3:54
Sandbag lunges 5:45 4:34
Run 8 4:45 5:21
Wall balls 6:48 5:44
Roxzone 5:41 10:36
Finish 1:21:27 1:16:53

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Gareth Matthew Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:21:27 1:21:28 0:01 · Gareth faster
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