Ross vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Ross McGrath

1:12:05 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
456th of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 10 results

James Shabot

1:11:14 best Open Men time · London 2025
355th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers

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

Ross: Manchester 2026, Open Men · James: London 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ross and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ross: strongest on Push (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 66%).James: strongest on Row (faster than 92% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 61%).

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Part Ross: faster than James: faster than
Ski 77% 75%
Push 95% 83%
Pull 84% 83%
BBJ 75% 77%
Row 85% 92%
Carry 77% 69%
Lunges 78% 61%
Wall balls 66% 83%
Roxzone 81% 88%
Runs 76% 76%

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

Part by part

Part Ross James
SkiErg 77% 75%
Sled push 95% 83%
Sled pull 84% 83%
Burpee broad jump 75% 77%
Row 85% 92%
Farmers carry 77% 69%
Sandbag lunges 78% 61%
Wall balls 66% 83%
Roxzone (moving) 81% 88%
Runs (8 km) 76% 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

Ross · Manchester 2026 · Open Men1:12:05
3:214:124:352:004:573:364:534:245:074:244:561:515:054:254:116:064:10
James · London 2025 · Open Men1:11:14
4:174:124:042:244:263:354:154:124:264:174:291:564:284:475:515:294:13
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.Ross · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 37:04 running, 30:58 at the stations and 4:10 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:06).Below, James · London 2025 · Open Men: 36:16 running, 30:51 at the stations and 4:13 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:29).

See the numbers
Part Ross · Manchester 2026 · Open Men James · London 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:21 4:17
SkiErg 4:12 4:12
Run 2 4:35 4:04
Sled push 2:00 2:24
Run 3 4:57 4:26
Sled pull 3:36 3:35
Run 4 4:53 4:15
Burpee broad jump 4:24 4:12
Run 5 5:07 4:26
Row 4:24 4:17
Run 6 4:56 4:29
Farmers carry 1:51 1:56
Run 7 5:05 4:28
Sandbag lunges 4:25 4:47
Run 8 4:11 5:51
Wall balls 6:06 5:29
Roxzone 4:10 4:13
Finish 1:12:05 1:11:14

Head to head: 4 races they both ran

Race Ross James Gap
Birmingham Birm Doubles Men · 1 Nov 2026 1:09:16 1:02:56 6:20 · James faster
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:12:05 1:12:08 0:03 · Ross faster
London ExCeL 2025 Doubles Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:09:20 1:00:13 9:07 · James faster
Birmingham 2024 Doubles Men · 25 Oct 2024 1:09:41 1:05:17 4:24 · James faster
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