Patrick vs Briarley

RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Patrick Smythe

1:17:46 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
40th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 4 results

Briarley Klassen

1:17:35 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
39th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Patrick: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men · Briarley: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Patrick and Briarley sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Patrick: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 97% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 62%).Briarley: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 69%).

See the numbers
Part Patrick: faster than Briarley: faster than
Ski 72% 89%
Push 78% 69%
Pull 81% 90%
BBJ 89% 92%
Row 76% 87%
Carry 89% 80%
Lunges 83% 91%
Wall balls 62% 93%
Roxzone 97% 87%
Runs 96% 92%

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

Part by part

Part Patrick Briarley
SkiErg 72% 89%
Sled push 78% 69%
Sled pull 81% 90%
Burpee broad jump 89% 92%
Row 76% 87%
Farmers carry 89% 80%
Sandbag lunges 83% 91%
Wall balls 62% 93%
Roxzone (moving) 97% 87%
Runs (8 km) 96% 92%

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

Patrick · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:17:46
3:094:364:193:064:544:484:414:464:394:474:411:494:474:315:027:515:27
Briarley · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men1:17:35
3:234:254:563:215:064:215:014:295:064:385:011:575:024:075:045:246:24
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.Patrick · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 36:11 running, 36:14 at the stations and 5:27 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:51).Below, Briarley · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 38:39 running, 32:42 at the stations and 6:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:24).

See the numbers
Part Patrick · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men Briarley · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:09 3:23
SkiErg 4:36 4:25
Run 2 4:19 4:56
Sled push 3:06 3:21
Run 3 4:54 5:06
Sled pull 4:48 4:21
Run 4 4:41 5:01
Burpee broad jump 4:46 4:29
Run 5 4:39 5:06
Row 4:47 4:38
Run 6 4:41 5:01
Farmers carry 1:49 1:57
Run 7 4:47 5:02
Sandbag lunges 4:31 4:07
Run 8 5:02 5:04
Wall balls 7:51 5:24
Roxzone 5:27 6:24
Finish 1:17:46 1:17:35

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Patrick Briarley Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:17:46 1:17:35 0:11 · Briarley faster
Johannesburg (I) 2025 Open Men · 1 Mar 2025 1:39:52 1:18:27 21:25 · Briarley faster
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