Joel vs Zech

USA USA · Pro Men · 2 results

Joel Okel

1:42:40 best Pro Men time · Paris 2025
393rd of 410 place in that race · 410 Pro Men finishers
USA USA · Pro Men · 2 results

Zech Jens

1:36:40 best Pro Men time · Chicago Navy Pier 2024
166th of 199 place in that race · 199 Pro Men finishers

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

Joel: Paris 2025, Pro Men · Zech: Chicago Navy Pier 2024, Pro Men

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

This chart shows where Joel and Zech sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Joel: strongest on Pull (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 1%).Zech: strongest on Lunges (faster than 43% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 8%).

See the numbers
Part Joel: faster than Zech: faster than
Ski 61% 10%
Push 2% 9%
Pull 93% 27%
BBJ 6% 28%
Row 10% 18%
Carry 19% 8%
Lunges 2% 43%
Wall balls 17% 24%
Roxzone 1% 13%
Runs 5% 9%

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

Part by part

Part Joel Zech
SkiErg 61% 10%
Sled push 2% 9%
Sled pull 93% 27%
Burpee broad jump 6% 28%
Row 10% 18%
Farmers carry 19% 8%
Sandbag lunges 2% 43%
Wall balls 17% 24%
Roxzone (moving) 1% 13%
Runs (8 km) 5% 9%

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

Joel · Paris 2025 · Pro Men1:42:40
4:444:154:575:035:233:595:467:286:164:586:162:466:149:125:428:4011:11
Zech · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Pro Men1:36:40
4:004:365:384:476:036:296:095:096:254:546:162:595:534:556:287:198:47
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.Joel · Paris 2025 · Pro Men: 45:18 running, 46:22 at the stations and 11:11 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (9:12).Below, Zech · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Pro Men: 46:52 running, 41:08 at the stations and 8:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:19).

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Part Joel · Paris 2025 · Pro Men Zech · Chicago Navy Pier 2024 · Pro Men
Run 1 4:44 4:00
SkiErg 4:15 4:36
Run 2 4:57 5:38
Sled push 5:03 4:47
Run 3 5:23 6:03
Sled pull 3:59 6:29
Run 4 5:46 6:09
Burpee broad jump 7:28 5:09
Run 5 6:16 6:25
Row 4:58 4:54
Run 6 6:16 6:16
Farmers carry 2:46 2:59
Run 7 6:14 5:53
Sandbag lunges 9:12 4:55
Run 8 5:42 6:28
Wall balls 8:40 7:19
Roxzone 11:11 8:47
Finish 1:42:40 1:36:40

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Joel Zech Gap
Chicago 2025 Pro Men · 14 Nov 2025 1:49:27 1:49:14 0:13 · Zech faster
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