Melissa vs Madeleine

RSA RSA · Open Women · 3 results

Melissa Purdon

1:29:50 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2025
120th of 431 place in that race · 431 Open Women finishers
RSA RSA · Open Women · 4 results

Madeleine Myburgh

1:29:56 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2025
121st of 431 place in that race · 431 Open Women finishers

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

Melissa: Cape Town 2025, Open Women · Madeleine: Cape Town 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Melissa and Madeleine sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Melissa: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 39%).Madeleine: strongest on Ski (faster than 89% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 53%).

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Part Melissa: faster than Madeleine: faster than
Ski 97% 89%
Push 99% 60%
Pull 91% 83%
BBJ 74% 83%
Row 97% 66%
Carry 39% 61%
Lunges 58% 88%
Wall balls 67% 53%
Roxzone 62% 67%
Runs 62% 65%

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

Part by part

Part Melissa Madeleine
SkiErg 97% 89%
Sled push 99% 60%
Sled pull 91% 83%
Burpee broad jump 74% 83%
Row 97% 66%
Farmers carry 39% 61%
Sandbag lunges 58% 88%
Wall balls 67% 53%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 67%
Runs (8 km) 62% 65%

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

Melissa · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women1:29:50
3:534:385:511:346:254:416:206:006:434:546:282:236:025:035:546:286:42
Madeleine · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women1:29:56
5:494:475:382:455:494:565:525:205:575:275:442:075:484:066:287:066:26
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.Melissa · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women: 47:36 running, 35:41 at the stations and 6:42 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:28) and the shortest the sled push (1:34).Below, Madeleine · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women: 47:05 running, 36:34 at the stations and 6:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:06).

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Part Melissa · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women Madeleine · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 3:53 5:49
SkiErg 4:38 4:47
Run 2 5:51 5:38
Sled push 1:34 2:45
Run 3 6:25 5:49
Sled pull 4:41 4:56
Run 4 6:20 5:52
Burpee broad jump 6:00 5:20
Run 5 6:43 5:57
Row 4:54 5:27
Run 6 6:28 5:44
Farmers carry 2:23 2:07
Run 7 6:02 5:48
Sandbag lunges 5:03 4:06
Run 8 5:54 6:28
Wall balls 6:28 7:06
Roxzone 6:42 6:26
Finish 1:29:50 1:29:56

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Melissa Madeleine Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Women · 19 Jul 2025 1:29:50 1:29:56 0:06 · Melissa faster
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