Kai vs Niels

NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Kai Schmitz

2:05:51 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2026
1981st of 2,058 place in that race · 2,058 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Niels Klomp

2:05:23 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2026
1979th of 2,058 place in that race · 2,058 Open Men finishers

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

Kai: Maastricht 2026, Open Men · Niels: Maastricht 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kai and Niels sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kai: strongest on Ski (faster than 29% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 1%).Niels: strongest on Push (faster than 42% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 0%).

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Part Kai: faster than Niels: faster than
Ski 29% 2%
Push 5% 42%
Pull 6% 2%
BBJ 20% 0%
Row 26% 2%
Carry 1% 8%
Lunges 3% 16%
Wall balls 7% 5%
Roxzone 8% 3%
Runs 3% 15%

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

Part by part

Part Kai Niels
SkiErg 29% 2%
Sled push 5% 42%
Sled pull 6% 2%
Burpee broad jump 20% 0%
Row 26% 2%
Farmers carry 1% 8%
Sandbag lunges 3% 16%
Wall balls 7% 5%
Roxzone (moving) 8% 3%
Runs (8 km) 3% 15%

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

Kai · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men2:05:51
3:564:405:544:218:087:039:477:316:535:117:154:277:2610:1110:1111:4611:19
Niels · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men2:05:23
4:005:165:153:056:048:316:2916:487:106:126:083:216:117:017:5012:5013:20
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.Kai · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men: 59:29 running, 55:10 at the stations and 11:19 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:46) and the shortest the sled push (4:21).Below, Niels · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men: 49:07 running, 1:03:04 at the stations and 13:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (16:48) and the shortest the sled push (3:05).

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Part Kai · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men Niels · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:56 4:00
SkiErg 4:40 5:16
Run 2 5:54 5:15
Sled push 4:21 3:05
Run 3 8:08 6:04
Sled pull 7:03 8:31
Run 4 9:47 6:29
Burpee broad jump 7:31 16:48
Run 5 6:53 7:10
Row 5:11 6:12
Run 6 7:15 6:08
Farmers carry 4:27 3:21
Run 7 7:26 6:11
Sandbag lunges 10:11 7:01
Run 8 10:11 7:50
Wall balls 11:46 12:50
Roxzone 11:19 13:20
Finish 2:05:51 2:05:23

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kai Niels Gap
Maastricht 2026 Open Men · 17 Sep 2026 2:05:51 2:05:23 0:28 · Niels faster
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