Merick vs Ivan

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Merick Middleton

1:38:55 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
438th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
HYROX · Open Men · 1 result

Ivan Chang

1:39:03 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
440th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Merick: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Ivan: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Merick and Ivan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Merick: strongest on Carry (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 20%).Ivan: strongest on Carry (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 26%).

See the numbers
Part Merick: faster than Ivan: faster than
Ski 27% 36%
Push 52% 76%
Pull 20% 26%
BBJ 52% 42%
Row 40% 61%
Carry 82% 88%
Lunges 70% 30%
Wall balls 59% 75%
Roxzone 36% 51%
Runs 36% 32%

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

Part by part

Part Merick Ivan
SkiErg 27% 36%
Sled push 52% 76%
Sled pull 20% 26%
Burpee broad jump 52% 42%
Row 40% 61%
Farmers carry 82% 88%
Sandbag lunges 70% 30%
Wall balls 59% 75%
Roxzone (moving) 36% 51%
Runs (8 km) 36% 32%

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

Merick · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:38:55
4:114:426:003:037:256:526:285:536:575:116:181:476:094:537:347:228:19
Ivan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:39:03
4:174:366:162:357:076:256:516:287:034:556:271:426:146:298:126:127:21
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.Merick · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 51:02 running, 39:43 at the stations and 8:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:22).Below, Ivan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 52:27 running, 39:22 at the stations and 7:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (6:29).

See the numbers
Part Merick · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Ivan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:11 4:17
SkiErg 4:42 4:36
Run 2 6:00 6:16
Sled push 3:03 2:35
Run 3 7:25 7:07
Sled pull 6:52 6:25
Run 4 6:28 6:51
Burpee broad jump 5:53 6:28
Run 5 6:57 7:03
Row 5:11 4:55
Run 6 6:18 6:27
Farmers carry 1:47 1:42
Run 7 6:09 6:14
Sandbag lunges 4:53 6:29
Run 8 7:34 8:12
Wall balls 7:22 6:12
Roxzone 8:19 7:21
Finish 1:38:55 1:39:03

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merick Ivan Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:38:55 1:39:03 0:08 · Merick faster
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