Thom vs Nicolas

NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Thom van Essen

1:11:49 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2026
267th of 2,058 place in that race · 2,058 Open Men finishers
BEL BEL · Open Men · 3 results

Nicolas van Michel

1:11:45 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2026
265th of 2,058 place in that race · 2,058 Open Men finishers

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

Thom: Maastricht 2026, Open Men · Nicolas: Maastricht 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Thom and Nicolas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Thom: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 41%).Nicolas: strongest on Runs (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 38%).

See the numbers
Part Thom: faster than Nicolas: faster than
Ski 56% 61%
Push 41% 70%
Pull 80% 68%
BBJ 59% 59%
Row 92% 88%
Carry 89% 38%
Lunges 61% 40%
Wall balls 75% 80%
Roxzone 98% 92%
Runs 91% 95%

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

Part by part

Part Thom Nicolas
SkiErg 56% 61%
Sled push 41% 70%
Sled pull 80% 68%
Burpee broad jump 59% 59%
Row 92% 88%
Farmers carry 89% 38%
Sandbag lunges 61% 40%
Wall balls 75% 80%
Roxzone (moving) 98% 92%
Runs (8 km) 91% 95%

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

Thom · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men1:11:49
3:214:274:073:064:103:534:115:174:174:274:161:444:184:504:425:385:12
Nicolas · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men1:11:45
3:094:253:582:403:594:124:025:164:064:314:032:244:025:334:305:245:40
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.Thom · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men: 33:22 running, 33:21 at the stations and 5:12 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:38).Below, Nicolas · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men: 31:49 running, 34:26 at the stations and 5:40 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (5:33).

See the numbers
Part Thom · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men Nicolas · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:21 3:09
SkiErg 4:27 4:25
Run 2 4:07 3:58
Sled push 3:06 2:40
Run 3 4:10 3:59
Sled pull 3:53 4:12
Run 4 4:11 4:02
Burpee broad jump 5:17 5:16
Run 5 4:17 4:06
Row 4:27 4:31
Run 6 4:16 4:03
Farmers carry 1:44 2:24
Run 7 4:18 4:02
Sandbag lunges 4:50 5:33
Run 8 4:42 4:30
Wall balls 5:38 5:24
Roxzone 5:12 5:40
Finish 1:11:49 1:11:45

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Thom Nicolas Gap
Maastricht 2026 Open Men · 17 Sep 2026 1:11:49 1:11:45 0:04 · Nicolas faster
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