Merel vs Ivana

NED NED · Open Women · 2 results

Merel Taal

1:53:40 best Open Women time · Rotterdam 2025
941st of 1,119 place in that race · 1,119 Open Women finishers
SVK SVK · Open Women · 5 results

Ivana Santova

1:48:34 best Open Women time · Warsaw 2025
481st of 575 place in that race · 575 Open Women finishers

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

Merel: Rotterdam 2025, Open Women · Ivana: Warsaw 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Merel and Ivana sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Merel: strongest on Carry (faster than 46% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 7%).Ivana: strongest on Push (faster than 63% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 7%).

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Part Merel: faster than Ivana: faster than
Ski 23% 53%
Push 7% 63%
Pull 17% 45%
BBJ 11% 9%
Row 18% 27%
Carry 46% 19%
Lunges 22% 36%
Wall balls 31% 26%
Roxzone 18% 37%
Runs 17% 7%

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

Part by part

Part Merel Ivana
SkiErg 23% 53%
Sled push 7% 63%
Sled pull 17% 45%
Burpee broad jump 11% 9%
Row 18% 27%
Farmers carry 46% 19%
Sandbag lunges 22% 36%
Wall balls 31% 26%
Roxzone (moving) 18% 37%
Runs (8 km) 17% 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

Merel · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Women1:53:40
6:265:226:283:389:127:136:4510:196:445:446:332:156:326:188:116:349:35
Ivana · Warsaw 2025 · Open Women1:48:34
5:065:127:022:187:215:327:459:528:015:427:582:318:025:057:047:286:44
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.Merel · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Women: 56:50 running, 47:23 at the stations and 9:35 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (10:19).Below, Ivana · Warsaw 2025 · Open Women: 58:19 running, 43:40 at the stations and 6:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:52) and the shortest the sled push (2:18).

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Part Merel · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Women Ivana · Warsaw 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 6:26 5:06
SkiErg 5:22 5:12
Run 2 6:28 7:02
Sled push 3:38 2:18
Run 3 9:12 7:21
Sled pull 7:13 5:32
Run 4 6:45 7:45
Burpee broad jump 10:19 9:52
Run 5 6:44 8:01
Row 5:44 5:42
Run 6 6:33 7:58
Farmers carry 2:15 2:31
Run 7 6:32 8:02
Sandbag lunges 6:18 5:05
Run 8 8:11 7:04
Wall balls 6:34 7:28
Roxzone 9:35 6:44
Finish 1:53:40 1:48:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Merel Ivana Gap
Rotterdam 2025 Open Women · 27 Feb 2025 1:53:40 1:53:37 0:03 · Ivana faster
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