Matthew vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Matthew Earlam

1:19:29 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1405th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 10 results

James Borrett

1:14:44 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
364th of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · James: Cologne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on BBJ (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 40%).James: strongest on Carry (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 55%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than James: faster than
Ski 55% 69%
Push 62% 89%
Pull 71% 87%
BBJ 84% 62%
Row 52% 83%
Carry 58% 91%
Lunges 40% 59%
Wall balls 76% 55%
Roxzone 56% 86%
Runs 57% 79%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew James
SkiErg 55% 69%
Sled push 62% 89%
Sled pull 71% 87%
Burpee broad jump 84% 62%
Row 52% 83%
Farmers carry 58% 91%
Sandbag lunges 40% 59%
Wall balls 76% 55%
Roxzone (moving) 56% 86%
Runs (8 km) 57% 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

Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:19:29
5:194:284:303:014:594:274:524:145:044:484:382:034:395:354:485:496:23
James · Cologne 2025 · Open Men1:14:44
4:234:164:072:154:233:354:214:564:374:284:421:374:404:495:466:465:03
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 · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 38:49 running, 34:25 at the stations and 6:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:49).Below, James · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 36:59 running, 32:43 at the stations and 5:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:46).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men James · Cologne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:19 4:23
SkiErg 4:28 4:16
Run 2 4:30 4:07
Sled push 3:01 2:15
Run 3 4:59 4:23
Sled pull 4:27 3:35
Run 4 4:52 4:21
Burpee broad jump 4:14 4:56
Run 5 5:04 4:37
Row 4:48 4:28
Run 6 4:38 4:42
Farmers carry 2:03 1:37
Run 7 4:39 4:40
Sandbag lunges 5:35 4:49
Run 8 4:48 5:46
Wall balls 5:49 6:46
Roxzone 6:23 5:03
Finish 1:19:29 1:14:44

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew James Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:19:29 1:19:29 level
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