Marcel vs Josua

GER GER · Open Men · 8 results

Marcel Herbst

1:37:46 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2025
1261st of 1,638 place in that race · 1,638 Open Men finishers
BEL BEL · Open Men · 5 results

Josua Kentros

1:38:39 best Open Men time · Mechelen 2026
2252nd of 2,671 place in that race · 2,671 Open Men finishers

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

Marcel: Mechelen 2025, Open Men · Josua: Mechelen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Marcel and Josua sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Marcel: strongest on Pull (faster than 58% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 10%).Josua: strongest on Ski (faster than 28% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 4%).

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Part Marcel: faster than Josua: faster than
Ski 56% 28%
Push 36% 7%
Pull 58% 11%
BBJ 40% 12%
Row 24% 4%
Carry 55% 15%
Lunges 26% 8%
Wall balls 26% 16%
Roxzone 41% 27%
Runs 10% 26%

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

Part by part

Part Marcel Josua
SkiErg 56% 28%
Sled push 36% 7%
Sled pull 58% 11%
Burpee broad jump 40% 12%
Row 24% 4%
Farmers carry 55% 15%
Sandbag lunges 26% 8%
Wall balls 26% 16%
Roxzone (moving) 41% 27%
Runs (8 km) 10% 26%

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

Marcel · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men1:37:46
8:054:255:232:445:304:515:466:095:475:085:382:065:456:136:217:3410:21
Josua · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men1:38:39
3:574:395:033:435:165:445:297:585:325:415:152:405:347:236:209:329:00
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.Marcel · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men: 48:14 running, 39:10 at the stations and 10:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:34).Below, Josua · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men: 42:26 running, 47:20 at the stations and 9:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:32).

See the numbers
Part Marcel · Mechelen 2025 · Open Men Josua · Mechelen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 8:05 3:57
SkiErg 4:25 4:39
Run 2 5:23 5:03
Sled push 2:44 3:43
Run 3 5:30 5:16
Sled pull 4:51 5:44
Run 4 5:46 5:29
Burpee broad jump 6:09 7:58
Run 5 5:47 5:32
Row 5:08 5:41
Run 6 5:38 5:15
Farmers carry 2:06 2:40
Run 7 5:45 5:34
Sandbag lunges 6:13 7:23
Run 8 6:21 6:20
Wall balls 7:34 9:32
Roxzone 10:21 9:00
Finish 1:37:46 1:38:39

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Marcel Josua Gap
Maastricht 2026 Open Men · 17 Sep 2026 1:46:25 1:46:25 level
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