Karim vs Mees

NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Karim Affia

1:27:27 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
1072nd of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers
NED NED · Open Men · 1 result

Mees Roelofs

1:27:25 best Open Men time · Heerenveen 2026
1071st of 1,771 place in that race · 1,771 Open Men finishers

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

Karim: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men · Mees: Heerenveen 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Karim and Mees sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Karim: strongest on BBJ (faster than 65% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 3%).Mees: strongest on Ski (faster than 82% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 22%).

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Part Karim: faster than Mees: faster than
Ski 48% 82%
Push 31% 36%
Pull 13% 58%
BBJ 65% 41%
Row 25% 79%
Carry 3% 57%
Lunges 44% 56%
Wall balls 39% 62%
Roxzone 17% 51%
Runs 57% 22%

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

Part by part

Part Karim Mees
SkiErg 48% 82%
Sled push 31% 36%
Sled pull 13% 58%
Burpee broad jump 65% 41%
Row 25% 79%
Farmers carry 3% 57%
Sandbag lunges 44% 56%
Wall balls 39% 62%
Roxzone (moving) 17% 51%
Runs (8 km) 57% 22%

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

Karim · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:27:27
4:414:284:423:034:555:164:474:584:585:014:433:164:415:025:327:2310:09
Mees · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men1:27:25
4:404:134:312:584:593:579:525:585:044:315:041:585:094:425:556:127:48
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.Karim · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 38:59 running, 38:28 at the stations and 10:09 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:23) and the shortest the sled push (3:03).Below, Mees · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men: 45:15 running, 34:30 at the stations and 7:48 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:12).

See the numbers
Part Karim · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men Mees · Heerenveen 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:41 4:40
SkiErg 4:28 4:13
Run 2 4:42 4:31
Sled push 3:03 2:58
Run 3 4:55 4:59
Sled pull 5:16 3:57
Run 4 4:47 9:52
Burpee broad jump 4:58 5:58
Run 5 4:58 5:04
Row 5:01 4:31
Run 6 4:43 5:04
Farmers carry 3:16 1:58
Run 7 4:41 5:09
Sandbag lunges 5:02 4:42
Run 8 5:32 5:55
Wall balls 7:23 6:12
Roxzone 10:09 7:48
Finish 1:27:27 1:27:25

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Karim Mees Gap
Heerenveen 2026 Open Men · 17 May 2026 1:27:27 1:27:25 0:02 · Mees faster
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