Elijah vs John

RSA RSA · Open Men · 5 results

Elijah Polydorou

59:40 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
24th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers
AUS AUS · Pro Men · 3 results

John Purkis

59:55 best Open Men time · Melbourne 2025
25th of 2,868 place in that race · 2,868 Open Men finishers

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

Elijah: Melbourne 2025, Open Men · John: Melbourne 2025, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
ElijahJohnedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Elijah and John sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Elijah: strongest on Runs (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 79%).John: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 92%).

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Part Elijah: faster than John: faster than
Ski 79% 97%
Push 80% 92%
Pull 99% 97%
BBJ 96% 97%
Row 96% 99%
Carry 97% 92%
Lunges 92% 97%
Wall balls 96% 99%
Roxzone 99% 98%
Runs 99% 98%

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

Part by part

Part Elijah John
SkiErg 79% 97%
Sled push 80% 92%
Sled pull 99% 97%
Burpee broad jump 96% 97%
Row 96% 99%
Farmers carry 97% 92%
Sandbag lunges 92% 97%
Wall balls 96% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 99% 98%
Runs (8 km) 99% 98%

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

Elijah · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men59:40
2:064:143:282:133:312:573:313:203:364:163:311:303:353:444:114:046:00
John · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men59:55
2:183:593:371:593:413:153:443:083:494:023:491:363:423:224:103:306:21
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.Elijah · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 27:29 running, 26:18 at the stations and 6:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:16).Below, John · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men: 28:50 running, 24:50 at the stations and 6:21 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:02).

See the numbers
Part Elijah · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men John · Melbourne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 2:06 2:18
SkiErg 4:14 3:59
Run 2 3:28 3:37
Sled push 2:13 1:59
Run 3 3:31 3:41
Sled pull 2:57 3:15
Run 4 3:31 3:44
Burpee broad jump 3:20 3:08
Run 5 3:36 3:49
Row 4:16 4:02
Run 6 3:31 3:49
Farmers carry 1:30 1:36
Run 7 3:35 3:42
Sandbag lunges 3:44 3:22
Run 8 4:11 4:10
Wall balls 4:04 3:30
Roxzone 6:00 6:21
Finish 59:40 59:55

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Elijah John Gap
Melbourne 2025 Open Men · 11 Dec 2025 59:40 59:55 0:15 · Elijah faster
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