Herman vs Danie

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Herman Smit

1:21:39 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
93rd of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 4 results

Danie Nieuwenhuizen

1:21:20 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
91st of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers

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

Herman: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men · Danie: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Herman and Danie sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Herman: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 30%).Danie: strongest on Push (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 64%).

See the numbers
Part Herman: faster than Danie: faster than
Ski 65% 79%
Push 30% 97%
Pull 99% 89%
BBJ 78% 64%
Row 89% 68%
Carry 90% 97%
Lunges 77% 65%
Wall balls 90% 89%
Roxzone 72% 64%
Runs 86% 89%

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

Part by part

Part Herman Danie
SkiErg 65% 79%
Sled push 30% 97%
Sled pull 99% 89%
Burpee broad jump 78% 64%
Row 89% 68%
Farmers carry 90% 97%
Sandbag lunges 77% 65%
Wall balls 90% 89%
Roxzone (moving) 72% 64%
Runs (8 km) 86% 89%

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

Herman · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men1:21:39
6:074:374:043:424:223:384:455:334:274:474:161:504:264:517:055:417:35
Danie · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men1:21:20
5:424:293:512:044:234:224:296:174:195:074:251:374:085:197:035:488:04
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.Herman · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 39:32 running, 34:38 at the stations and 7:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:41).Below, Danie · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 38:20 running, 35:04 at the stations and 8:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:17).

See the numbers
Part Herman · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men Danie · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:07 5:42
SkiErg 4:37 4:29
Run 2 4:04 3:51
Sled push 3:42 2:04
Run 3 4:22 4:23
Sled pull 3:38 4:22
Run 4 4:45 4:29
Burpee broad jump 5:33 6:17
Run 5 4:27 4:19
Row 4:47 5:07
Run 6 4:16 4:25
Farmers carry 1:50 1:37
Run 7 4:26 4:08
Sandbag lunges 4:51 5:19
Run 8 7:05 7:03
Wall balls 5:41 5:48
Roxzone 7:35 8:04
Finish 1:21:39 1:21:20

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Herman Danie Gap
Johannesburg 2026 Open Men · 30 May 2026 1:21:39 1:21:20 0:19 · Danie faster
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:37:01 1:42:07 5:06 · Herman faster
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