Dean vs Gavin

GBR GBR · Open Men · 10 results

Dean Holsey

1:23:24 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1769th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

Gavin McCarthy

1:19:53 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
2298th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Dean: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Gavin: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Dean and Gavin sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Dean: strongest on Push (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 24%).Gavin: strongest on Ski (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 23%).

See the numbers
Part Dean: faster than Gavin: faster than
Ski 73% 89%
Push 93% 49%
Pull 84% 70%
BBJ 32% 40%
Row 71% 78%
Carry 79% 78%
Lunges 75% 47%
Wall balls 34% 23%
Roxzone 24% 72%
Runs 55% 72%

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

Part by part

Part Dean Gavin
SkiErg 73% 89%
Sled push 93% 49%
Sled pull 84% 70%
Burpee broad jump 32% 40%
Row 71% 78%
Farmers carry 79% 78%
Sandbag lunges 75% 47%
Wall balls 34% 23%
Roxzone (moving) 24% 72%
Runs (8 km) 55% 72%

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

Dean · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:23:24
5:254:204:232:144:504:045:056:294:574:374:331:484:434:235:168:208:03
Gavin · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:19:53
2:514:283:292:493:454:183:395:583:414:403:451:453:455:175:319:4710:33
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.Dean · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 39:12 running, 36:14 at the stations and 8:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:20).Below, Gavin · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 30:26 running, 39:02 at the stations and 10:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:47).

See the numbers
Part Dean · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Gavin · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:25 2:51
SkiErg 4:20 4:28
Run 2 4:23 3:29
Sled push 2:14 2:49
Run 3 4:50 3:45
Sled pull 4:04 4:18
Run 4 5:05 3:39
Burpee broad jump 6:29 5:58
Run 5 4:57 3:41
Row 4:37 4:40
Run 6 4:33 3:45
Farmers carry 1:48 1:45
Run 7 4:43 3:45
Sandbag lunges 4:23 5:17
Run 8 5:16 5:31
Wall balls 8:20 9:47
Roxzone 8:03 10:33
Finish 1:23:24 1:19:53

Head to head: 3 races they both ran

Race Dean Gavin Gap
Birmingham Birm Pro Men · 30 Oct 2026 1:35:36 1:36:19 0:43 · Dean faster
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:25:11 1:19:53 5:18 · Gavin faster
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:23:24 1:27:01 3:37 · Dean faster
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