Umar vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Umar Nazir

2:33:14 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3912th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Busby

2:33:06 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3911th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Umar: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Paul: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Umar and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Umar: strongest on BBJ (faster than 18% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 0%).Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 57% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).

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Part Umar: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 18% 1%
Push 2% 57%
Pull 1% 12%
BBJ 18% 1%
Row 9% 8%
Carry 17% 9%
Lunges 1% 1%
Wall balls 0% 5%
Roxzone 3% 0%
Runs 1% 0%

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

Part by part

Part Umar Paul
SkiErg 18% 1%
Sled push 2% 57%
Sled pull 1% 12%
Burpee broad jump 18% 1%
Row 9% 8%
Farmers carry 17% 9%
Sandbag lunges 1% 1%
Wall balls 0% 5%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 0%
Runs (8 km) 1% 0%

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

Umar · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:33:14
5:534:496:536:368:329:518:177:308:565:298:352:478:0415:3411:1522:5311:30
Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:33:06
9:425:287:483:077:436:518:2115:069:035:337:583:078:1612:0414:2613:4514:58
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.Umar · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 1:06:24 running, 1:15:29 at the stations and 11:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (22:53).Below, Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 1:13:17 running, 1:05:02 at the stations and 14:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:06) and the shortest the sled push (3:07).

See the numbers
Part Umar · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:53 9:42
SkiErg 4:49 5:28
Run 2 6:53 7:48
Sled push 6:36 3:07
Run 3 8:32 7:43
Sled pull 9:51 6:51
Run 4 8:17 8:21
Burpee broad jump 7:30 15:06
Run 5 8:56 9:03
Row 5:29 5:33
Run 6 8:35 7:58
Farmers carry 2:47 3:07
Run 7 8:04 8:16
Sandbag lunges 15:34 12:04
Run 8 11:15 14:26
Wall balls 22:53 13:45
Roxzone 11:30 14:58
Finish 2:33:14 2:33:06

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Umar Paul Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:33:14 2:33:06 0:08 · Paul faster
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