Richard vs David

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Richard Simpson

1:21:38 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
1071st of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Open Men · 2 results

David Fraser

1:24:40 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
1458th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Richard: Birmingham 2024, Open Men · David: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Richard and David sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Richard: strongest on Carry (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 37%).David: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 21%).

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Part Richard: faster than David: faster than
Ski 82% 96%
Push 53% 99%
Pull 76% 79%
BBJ 37% 21%
Row 78% 96%
Carry 88% 46%
Lunges 52% 27%
Wall balls 63% 57%
Roxzone 64% 43%
Runs 56% 43%

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

Part by part

Part Richard David
SkiErg 82% 96%
Sled push 53% 99%
Sled pull 76% 79%
Burpee broad jump 37% 21%
Row 78% 96%
Farmers carry 88% 46%
Sandbag lunges 52% 27%
Wall balls 63% 57%
Roxzone (moving) 64% 43%
Runs (8 km) 56% 43%

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

Richard · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:21:38
5:444:094:432:494:454:114:526:304:554:304:541:414:475:035:146:056:53
David · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men1:24:40
2:534:014:561:415:114:025:186:495:224:155:122:085:096:165:556:109:32
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.Richard · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 39:54 running, 34:58 at the stations and 6:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:30).Below, David · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 39:56 running, 35:22 at the stations and 9:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:49) and the shortest the sled push (1:41).

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Part Richard · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men David · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:44 2:53
SkiErg 4:09 4:01
Run 2 4:43 4:56
Sled push 2:49 1:41
Run 3 4:45 5:11
Sled pull 4:11 4:02
Run 4 4:52 5:18
Burpee broad jump 6:30 6:49
Run 5 4:55 5:22
Row 4:30 4:15
Run 6 4:54 5:12
Farmers carry 1:41 2:08
Run 7 4:47 5:09
Sandbag lunges 5:03 6:16
Run 8 5:14 5:55
Wall balls 6:05 6:10
Roxzone 6:53 9:32
Finish 1:21:38 1:24:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Richard David Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 1:24:38 1:24:40 0:02 · Richard faster
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