Yousef vs Matt

PLE PLE · Open Men · 2 results

Yousef Alsaleh

1:42:08 best Open Men time · Dallas 2024
649th of 929 place in that race · 929 Open Men finishers
USA USA · Open Men · 2 results

Matt Palumbo

2:11:07 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
1544th of 1,622 place in that race · 1,622 Open Men finishers

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

Yousef: Dallas 2024, Open Men · Matt: Chicago 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Yousef and Matt sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Yousef: strongest on Push (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 12%).Matt: strongest on Ski (faster than 39% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 4%).

See the numbers
Part Yousef: faster than Matt: faster than
Ski 45% 39%
Push 63% 25%
Pull 30% 8%
BBJ 25% 5%
Row 12% 5%
Carry 38% 32%
Lunges 53% 6%
Wall balls 37% 15%
Roxzone 28% 8%
Runs 26% 4%

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

Part by part

Part Yousef Matt
SkiErg 45% 39%
Sled push 63% 25%
Sled pull 30% 8%
Burpee broad jump 25% 5%
Row 12% 5%
Farmers carry 38% 32%
Sandbag lunges 53% 6%
Wall balls 37% 15%
Roxzone (moving) 28% 8%
Runs (8 km) 26% 4%

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

Yousef · Dallas 2024 · Open Men1:42:08
5:534:385:272:545:435:516:276:437:165:417:102:156:595:097:296:549:47
Matt · Chicago 2025 · Open Men2:11:07
4:594:356:443:038:057:278:1210:499:045:559:182:228:418:4610:5711:1711:02
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.Yousef · Dallas 2024 · Open Men: 52:24 running, 40:05 at the stations and 9:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:54).Below, Matt · Chicago 2025 · Open Men: 1:05:59 running, 54:14 at the stations and 11:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (11:17).

See the numbers
Part Yousef · Dallas 2024 · Open Men Matt · Chicago 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:53 4:59
SkiErg 4:38 4:35
Run 2 5:27 6:44
Sled push 2:54 3:03
Run 3 5:43 8:05
Sled pull 5:51 7:27
Run 4 6:27 8:12
Burpee broad jump 6:43 10:49
Run 5 7:16 9:04
Row 5:41 5:55
Run 6 7:10 9:18
Farmers carry 2:15 2:22
Run 7 6:59 8:41
Sandbag lunges 5:09 8:46
Run 8 7:29 10:57
Wall balls 6:54 11:17
Roxzone 9:47 11:02
Finish 1:42:08 2:11:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Yousef Matt Gap
Chicago 2025 Open Men · 14 Nov 2025 2:11:15 2:11:07 0:08 · Matt faster
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