Sam vs Masahiro

NZL NZL · Open Men · 5 results

Sam Pierce

1:13:10 best Open Men time · Taipei 2025
42nd of 688 place in that race · 688 Open Men finishers
JPN JPN · Pro Men · 7 results

Masahiro Kawashima

1:08:52 best Open Men time · Shanghai 2026
29th of 1,446 place in that race · 1,446 Open Men finishers

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

Sam: Taipei 2025, Open Men · Masahiro: Shanghai 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Sam and Masahiro sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Sam: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 59%).Masahiro: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 84%).

See the numbers
Part Sam: faster than Masahiro: faster than
Ski 99% 89%
Push 99% 84%
Pull 97% 94%
BBJ 59% 96%
Row 95% 85%
Carry 67% 86%
Lunges 90% 94%
Wall balls 88% 99%
Roxzone 86% 97%
Runs 92% 96%

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

Part by part

Part Sam Masahiro
SkiErg 99% 89%
Sled push 99% 84%
Sled pull 97% 94%
Burpee broad jump 59% 96%
Row 95% 85%
Farmers carry 67% 86%
Sandbag lunges 90% 94%
Wall balls 88% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 86% 97%
Runs (8 km) 92% 96%

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

Sam · Taipei 2025 · Open Men1:13:10
4:493:504:271:274:223:534:335:294:294:414:362:104:324:025:045:025:51
Masahiro · Shanghai 2026 · Open Men1:08:52
4:304:273:443:193:524:113:503:334:034:543:571:523:583:564:224:066:25
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.Sam · Taipei 2025 · Open Men: 36:52 running, 30:33 at the stations and 5:51 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:29) and the shortest the sled push (1:27).Below, Masahiro · Shanghai 2026 · Open Men: 32:16 running, 30:18 at the stations and 6:25 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:54).

See the numbers
Part Sam · Taipei 2025 · Open Men Masahiro · Shanghai 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:49 4:30
SkiErg 3:50 4:27
Run 2 4:27 3:44
Sled push 1:27 3:19
Run 3 4:22 3:52
Sled pull 3:53 4:11
Run 4 4:33 3:50
Burpee broad jump 5:29 3:33
Run 5 4:29 4:03
Row 4:41 4:54
Run 6 4:36 3:57
Farmers carry 2:10 1:52
Run 7 4:32 3:58
Sandbag lunges 4:02 3:56
Run 8 5:04 4:22
Wall balls 5:02 4:06
Roxzone 5:51 6:25
Finish 1:13:10 1:08:52

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Sam Masahiro Gap
Taipei 2025 Open Men · 12 Apr 2025 1:13:10 1:13:55 0:45 · Sam faster
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