Wessel vs Ethan

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Wessel Pretorius

1:38:42 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
436th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Ethan McCormick

1:38:31 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
434th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Wessel: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Ethan: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Wessel and Ethan sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Wessel: strongest on Carry (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 24%).Ethan: strongest on BBJ (faster than 70% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 16%).

See the numbers
Part Wessel: faster than Ethan: faster than
Ski 45% 28%
Push 57% 35%
Pull 42% 27%
BBJ 40% 70%
Row 42% 67%
Carry 70% 67%
Lunges 24% 60%
Wall balls 34% 16%
Roxzone 63% 37%
Runs 42% 52%

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

Part by part

Part Wessel Ethan
SkiErg 45% 28%
Sled push 57% 35%
Sled pull 42% 27%
Burpee broad jump 40% 70%
Row 42% 67%
Farmers carry 70% 67%
Sandbag lunges 24% 60%
Wall balls 34% 16%
Roxzone (moving) 63% 37%
Runs (8 km) 42% 52%

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

Wessel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:38:42
3:404:305:582:576:345:336:236:346:335:096:191:576:306:477:249:216:39
Ethan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:38:31
4:504:415:173:276:206:215:505:007:384:515:221:595:205:096:3711:418:17
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.Wessel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 49:22 running, 42:48 at the stations and 6:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:21).Below, Ethan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 47:13 running, 43:08 at the stations and 8:17 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:41).

See the numbers
Part Wessel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Ethan · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:40 4:50
SkiErg 4:30 4:41
Run 2 5:58 5:17
Sled push 2:57 3:27
Run 3 6:34 6:20
Sled pull 5:33 6:21
Run 4 6:23 5:50
Burpee broad jump 6:34 5:00
Run 5 6:33 7:38
Row 5:09 4:51
Run 6 6:19 5:22
Farmers carry 1:57 1:59
Run 7 6:30 5:20
Sandbag lunges 6:47 5:09
Run 8 7:24 6:37
Wall balls 9:21 11:41
Roxzone 6:39 8:17
Finish 1:38:42 1:38:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Wessel Ethan Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:38:42 1:38:31 0:11 · Ethan faster
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