David vs Michael

USA USA · Open Men · 3 results

David Placzek

1:27:55 best Open Men time · Boston 2026
729th of 1,900 place in that race · 1,900 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 9 results

Michael Warber

1:23:49 best Open Men time · Houston 2025
342nd of 1,006 place in that race · 1,006 Open Men finishers

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

David: Boston 2026, Open Men · Michael: Houston 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where David and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.David: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 90% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 34%).Michael: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 15%).

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Part David: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 46% 53%
Push 81% 43%
Pull 77% 49%
BBJ 82% 36%
Row 82% 37%
Carry 39% 15%
Lunges 86% 81%
Wall balls 90% 41%
Roxzone 54% 82%
Runs 34% 76%

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

Part by part

Part David Michael
SkiErg 46% 53%
Sled push 81% 43%
Sled pull 77% 49%
Burpee broad jump 82% 36%
Row 82% 37%
Farmers carry 39% 15%
Sandbag lunges 86% 81%
Wall balls 90% 41%
Roxzone (moving) 54% 82%
Runs (8 km) 34% 76%

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

David · Boston 2026 · Open Men1:27:55
4:264:415:343:036:124:316:064:396:184:376:032:246:044:147:025:007:08
Michael · Houston 2025 · Open Men1:23:49
4:464:314:492:584:435:374:506:494:515:064:492:594:554:185:086:595:48
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.David · Boston 2026 · Open Men: 47:45 running, 33:09 at the stations and 7:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:00).Below, Michael · Houston 2025 · Open Men: 38:52 running, 39:17 at the stations and 5:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:59) and the shortest the sled push (2:58).

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Part David · Boston 2026 · Open Men Michael · Houston 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:26 4:46
SkiErg 4:41 4:31
Run 2 5:34 4:49
Sled push 3:03 2:58
Run 3 6:12 4:43
Sled pull 4:31 5:37
Run 4 6:06 4:50
Burpee broad jump 4:39 6:49
Run 5 6:18 4:51
Row 4:37 5:06
Run 6 6:03 4:49
Farmers carry 2:24 2:59
Run 7 6:04 4:55
Sandbag lunges 4:14 4:18
Run 8 7:02 5:08
Wall balls 5:00 6:59
Roxzone 7:08 5:48
Finish 1:27:55 1:23:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race David Michael Gap
Boston 2026 Open Men · 8 Oct 2026 1:27:55 1:27:58 0:03 · David faster
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