Darren vs Tom

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Darren Starling

1:44:53 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4893rd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 6 results

Tom Daly

1:29:53 best Open Men time · Manchester 2025
834th of 1,191 place in that race · 1,191 Open Men finishers

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

Darren: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Tom: Manchester 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Darren and Tom sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Darren: strongest on Carry (faster than 42% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 2%).Tom: strongest on Runs (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).

See the numbers
Part Darren: faster than Tom: faster than
Ski 31% 17%
Push 14% 24%
Pull 19% 27%
BBJ 4% 46%
Row 9% 14%
Carry 42% 26%
Lunges 2% 28%
Wall balls 15% 47%
Roxzone 24% 1%
Runs 23% 79%

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

Part by part

Part Darren Tom
SkiErg 31% 17%
Sled push 14% 24%
Sled pull 19% 27%
Burpee broad jump 4% 46%
Row 9% 14%
Farmers carry 42% 26%
Sandbag lunges 2% 28%
Wall balls 15% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 1%
Runs (8 km) 23% 79%

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

Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:44:53
3:435:014:103:334:505:544:279:474:435:374:332:094:3110:506:4810:5513:31
Tom · Manchester 2025 · Open Men1:29:53
3:164:364:263:034:545:136:545:215:145:065:162:283:255:486:3716:16
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.Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 37:46 running, 53:46 at the stations and 13:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:55).Below, Tom · Manchester 2025 · Open Men: 33:25 running, 38:13 at the stations and 16:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:37).

See the numbers
Part Darren · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Tom · Manchester 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:43 3:16
SkiErg 5:01 4:36
Run 2 4:10 4:26
Sled push 3:33 3:03
Run 3 4:50 4:54
Sled pull 5:54 5:13
Run 4 4:27 6:54
Burpee broad jump 9:47 5:21
Run 5 4:43 5:14
Row 5:37 5:06
Run 6 4:33 5:16
Farmers carry 2:09 2:28
Run 7 4:31 3:25
Sandbag lunges 10:50 5:48
Run 8 6:48 —
Wall balls 10:55 6:37
Roxzone 13:31 16:16
Finish 1:44:53 1:29:53

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Darren Tom Gap
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:44:53 1:44:46 0:07 · Tom faster
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