Stefan vs Francois

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Stefan Steyn

2:07:03 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
359th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Francois du Plessis

2:08:17 best Open Men time · Johannesburg (I) 2025
360th of 422 place in that race · 422 Open Men finishers

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

Stefan: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men · Francois: Johannesburg (I) 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stefan and Francois sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stefan: strongest on Row (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 7%).Francois: strongest on Carry (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 7%).

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Part Stefan: faster than Francois: faster than
Ski 13% 55%
Push 13% 51%
Pull 7% 46%
BBJ 17% 17%
Row 38% 32%
Carry 10% 77%
Lunges 23% 15%
Wall balls 29% 30%
Roxzone 16% 23%
Runs 15% 7%

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

Part by part

Part Stefan Francois
SkiErg 13% 55%
Sled push 13% 51%
Sled pull 7% 46%
Burpee broad jump 17% 17%
Row 38% 32%
Farmers carry 10% 77%
Sandbag lunges 23% 15%
Wall balls 29% 30%
Roxzone (moving) 16% 23%
Runs (8 km) 15% 7%

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

Stefan · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men2:07:03
7:075:066:573:577:328:087:369:248:365:238:023:188:026:519:3110:2511:15
Francois · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men2:08:17
4:154:317:193:0010:275:198:219:3011:185:288:062:037:487:4212:2910:2010:29
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.Stefan · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 1:03:23 running, 52:32 at the stations and 11:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:25).Below, Francois · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men: 1:10:03 running, 47:53 at the stations and 10:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:20).

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Part Stefan · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men Francois · Johannesburg (I) 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:07 4:15
SkiErg 5:06 4:31
Run 2 6:57 7:19
Sled push 3:57 3:00
Run 3 7:32 10:27
Sled pull 8:08 5:19
Run 4 7:36 8:21
Burpee broad jump 9:24 9:30
Run 5 8:36 11:18
Row 5:23 5:28
Run 6 8:02 8:06
Farmers carry 3:18 2:03
Run 7 8:02 7:48
Sandbag lunges 6:51 7:42
Run 8 9:31 12:29
Wall balls 10:25 10:20
Roxzone 11:15 10:29
Finish 2:07:03 2:08:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stefan Francois Gap
Johannesburg (I) 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 2:07:03 2:08:17 1:14 · Stefan faster
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