Matthew vs Donald

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

Matthew Link

1:11:32 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
95th of 1,622 place in that race · 1,622 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 8 results

Donald Ng

1:08:38 best Open Men time · New York 2025
95th of 1,865 place in that race · 1,865 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Chicago 2025, Open Men · Donald: New York 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
no split
MatthewDonaldedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Matthew and Donald sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Carry (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 54%).Donald: strongest on BBJ (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 9%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Donald: faster than
Ski 88% 62%
Push 89% 96%
Pull 96% 67%
BBJ 94% 99%
Row 94% 92%
Carry 98% 96%
Lunges 93% 88%
Wall balls 54% 98%
Roxzone 93% 9%
Runs 95% no split

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Donald
SkiErg 88% 62%
Sled push 89% 96%
Sled pull 96% 67%
Burpee broad jump 94% 99%
Row 94% 92%
Farmers carry 98% 96%
Sandbag lunges 93% 88%
Wall balls 54% 98%
Roxzone (moving) 93% 9%
Runs (8 km) 95% —

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

Matthew · Chicago 2025 · Open Men1:11:32
3:414:104:241:564:313:334:424:044:344:234:331:314:373:445:137:214:42
Donald · New York 2025 · Open Men1:08:38
4:254:264:221:444:303:434:402:414:464:254:341:354:034:0813:12
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.Matthew · Chicago 2025 · Open Men: 36:16 running, 30:42 at the stations and 4:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:21).Below, Donald · New York 2025 · Open Men: 27:18 running, 26:44 at the stations and 13:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:26).

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Part Matthew · Chicago 2025 · Open Men Donald · New York 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:41 4:25
SkiErg 4:10 4:26
Run 2 4:24 4:22
Sled push 1:56 1:44
Run 3 4:31 4:30
Sled pull 3:33 3:43
Run 4 4:42 4:40
Burpee broad jump 4:04 2:41
Run 5 4:34 4:46
Row 4:23 4:25
Run 6 4:33 4:34
Farmers carry 1:31 1:35
Run 7 4:37 —
Sandbag lunges 3:44 4:03
Run 8 5:13 —
Wall balls 7:21 4:08
Roxzone 4:42 13:12
Finish 1:11:32 1:08:38

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Donald Gap
Chicago 2025 Open Men · 14 Nov 2025 1:11:32 1:11:23 0:09 · Donald faster
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