Karsten vs Norman

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Karsten Wessel

1:27:21 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
908th of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 1 result

Norman Winter

1:27:16 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
906th of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers

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

Karsten: Hamburg 2025, Open Men · Norman: Hamburg 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Karsten and Norman sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Karsten: strongest on Runs (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 6%).Norman: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 26%).

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Part Karsten: faster than Norman: faster than
Ski 60% 28%
Push 25% 99%
Pull 35% 55%
BBJ 62% 49%
Row 64% 26%
Carry 6% 71%
Lunges 66% 26%
Wall balls 13% 56%
Roxzone 22% 47%
Runs 81% 45%

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

Part by part

Part Karsten Norman
SkiErg 60% 28%
Sled push 25% 99%
Sled pull 35% 55%
Burpee broad jump 62% 49%
Row 64% 26%
Farmers carry 6% 71%
Sandbag lunges 66% 26%
Wall balls 13% 56%
Roxzone (moving) 22% 47%
Runs (8 km) 81% 45%

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

Karsten · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men1:27:21
4:444:224:043:354:095:184:175:154:264:424:313:074:404:535:0310:559:29
Norman · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men1:27:16
5:484:364:341:425:124:435:145:455:355:054:521:514:346:256:346:587:57
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.Karsten · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 35:54 running, 42:07 at the stations and 9:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:55).Below, Norman · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 42:23 running, 37:05 at the stations and 7:57 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:58) and the shortest the sled push (1:42).

See the numbers
Part Karsten · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men Norman · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:44 5:48
SkiErg 4:22 4:36
Run 2 4:04 4:34
Sled push 3:35 1:42
Run 3 4:09 5:12
Sled pull 5:18 4:43
Run 4 4:17 5:14
Burpee broad jump 5:15 5:45
Run 5 4:26 5:35
Row 4:42 5:05
Run 6 4:31 4:52
Farmers carry 3:07 1:51
Run 7 4:40 4:34
Sandbag lunges 4:53 6:25
Run 8 5:03 6:34
Wall balls 10:55 6:58
Roxzone 9:29 7:57
Finish 1:27:21 1:27:16

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Karsten Norman Gap
Hamburg 2025 Open Men · 3 Oct 2025 1:27:21 1:27:16 0:05 · Norman faster
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