Niklas vs René

GER GER · Open Men · 1 result

Niklas Volpert

1:29:02 best Open Men time · Cologne 2026
807th of 1,452 place in that race · 1,452 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

René Graf

1:28:23 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
964th of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers

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

Niklas: Cologne 2026, Open Men · René: Hamburg 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Niklas and René sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Niklas: strongest on Pull (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 30%).René: strongest on Ski (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 30%).

See the numbers
Part Niklas: faster than René: faster than
Ski 55% 64%
Push 36% 41%
Pull 84% 57%
BBJ 58% 41%
Row 61% 47%
Carry 53% 46%
Lunges 59% 53%
Wall balls 64% 57%
Roxzone 35% 30%
Runs 30% 47%

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

Part by part

Part Niklas René
SkiErg 55% 64%
Sled push 36% 41%
Sled pull 84% 57%
Burpee broad jump 58% 41%
Row 61% 47%
Farmers carry 53% 46%
Sandbag lunges 59% 53%
Wall balls 64% 57%
Roxzone (moving) 35% 30%
Runs (8 km) 30% 47%

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

Niklas · Cologne 2026 · Open Men1:29:02
4:324:276:033:286:183:406:125:116:224:465:581:576:144:545:286:297:12
René · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men1:28:23
5:534:204:463:134:544:395:026:055:124:515:122:075:075:196:046:568:51
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.Niklas · Cologne 2026 · Open Men: 47:07 running, 34:52 at the stations and 7:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:29).Below, René · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 42:10 running, 37:30 at the stations and 8:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:56).

See the numbers
Part Niklas · Cologne 2026 · Open Men René · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:32 5:53
SkiErg 4:27 4:20
Run 2 6:03 4:46
Sled push 3:28 3:13
Run 3 6:18 4:54
Sled pull 3:40 4:39
Run 4 6:12 5:02
Burpee broad jump 5:11 6:05
Run 5 6:22 5:12
Row 4:46 4:51
Run 6 5:58 5:12
Farmers carry 1:57 2:07
Run 7 6:14 5:07
Sandbag lunges 4:54 5:19
Run 8 5:28 6:04
Wall balls 6:29 6:56
Roxzone 7:12 8:51
Finish 1:29:02 1:28:23

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Niklas René Gap
Cologne 2026 Open Men · 16 Apr 2026 1:29:02 1:29:05 0:03 · Niklas faster
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