James vs Michael

GBR GBR · Open Men · 8 results

James Parton

58:57 best Open Men time · London 2025
7th of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers
IRL IRL · Open Men · 8 results

Michael Flynn

58:34 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
16th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

James: London 2025, Open Men · Michael: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 75%).Michael: strongest on Pull (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 83%).

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Part James: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 75% 83%
Push 79% 88%
Pull 98% 99%
BBJ 98% 99%
Row 99% 96%
Carry 99% 95%
Lunges 99% 97%
Wall balls 99% 99%
Roxzone 99% 99%
Runs 99% 99%

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

Part by part

Part James Michael
SkiErg 75% 83%
Sled push 79% 88%
Sled pull 98% 99%
Burpee broad jump 98% 99%
Row 99% 96%
Farmers carry 99% 95%
Sandbag lunges 99% 97%
Wall balls 99% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 99%
Runs (8 km) 99% 99%

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

James · London 2025 · Open Men58:57
3:444:123:342:273:383:023:403:033:444:043:351:183:333:134:364:113:31
Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men58:34
3:544:153:252:233:362:583:362:553:384:173:371:323:363:253:383:504:08
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.James · London 2025 · Open Men: 30:04 running, 25:30 at the stations and 3:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:12).Below, Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 29:00 running, 25:35 at the stations and 4:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:17).

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Part James · London 2025 · Open Men Michael · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:44 3:54
SkiErg 4:12 4:15
Run 2 3:34 3:25
Sled push 2:27 2:23
Run 3 3:38 3:36
Sled pull 3:02 2:58
Run 4 3:40 3:36
Burpee broad jump 3:03 2:55
Run 5 3:44 3:38
Row 4:04 4:17
Run 6 3:35 3:37
Farmers carry 1:18 1:32
Run 7 3:33 3:36
Sandbag lunges 3:13 3:25
Run 8 4:36 3:38
Wall balls 4:11 3:50
Roxzone 3:31 4:08
Finish 58:57 58:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Michael Gap
London 2025 Open Men · 3 May 2025 58:57 59:09 0:12 · James faster
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