Paul vs Umar

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul Busby

2:33:06 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3911th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Umar Nazir

2:33:14 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3912th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Paul: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Umar: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Paul and Umar sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 57% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 0%).Umar: strongest on BBJ (faster than 18% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 0%).

See the numbers
Part Paul: faster than Umar: faster than
Ski 1% 18%
Push 57% 2%
Pull 12% 1%
BBJ 1% 18%
Row 8% 9%
Carry 9% 17%
Lunges 1% 1%
Wall balls 5% 0%
Roxzone 0% 3%
Runs 0% 1%

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

Part by part

Part Paul Umar
SkiErg 1% 18%
Sled push 57% 2%
Sled pull 12% 1%
Burpee broad jump 1% 18%
Row 8% 9%
Farmers carry 9% 17%
Sandbag lunges 1% 1%
Wall balls 5% 0%
Roxzone (moving) 0% 3%
Runs (8 km) 0% 1%

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

Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:33:06
9:425:287:483:077:436:518:2115:069:035:337:583:078:1612:0414:2613:4514:58
Umar · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men2:33:14
5:534:496:536:368:329:518:177:308:565:298:352:478:0415:3411:1522:5311:30
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.Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 1:13:17 running, 1:05:02 at the stations and 14:58 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (15:06) and the shortest the sled push (3:07).Below, Umar · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 1:06:24 running, 1:15:29 at the stations and 11:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (22:53).

See the numbers
Part Paul · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Umar · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 9:42 5:53
SkiErg 5:28 4:49
Run 2 7:48 6:53
Sled push 3:07 6:36
Run 3 7:43 8:32
Sled pull 6:51 9:51
Run 4 8:21 8:17
Burpee broad jump 15:06 7:30
Run 5 9:03 8:56
Row 5:33 5:29
Run 6 7:58 8:35
Farmers carry 3:07 2:47
Run 7 8:16 8:04
Sandbag lunges 12:04 15:34
Run 8 14:26 11:15
Wall balls 13:45 22:53
Roxzone 14:58 11:30
Finish 2:33:06 2:33:14

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Paul Umar Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 2:33:06 2:33:14 0:08 · Paul faster
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