Melissa vs Katherine

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 · 1 result

Katherine Blewett

1:29:33 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2025
118th 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 · Katherine: Cape Town 2025, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Melissa and Katherine 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%).Katherine: strongest on BBJ (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 4%).

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Part Melissa: faster than Katherine: faster than
Ski 97% 19%
Push 99% 30%
Pull 91% 43%
BBJ 74% 98%
Row 97% 4%
Carry 39% 47%
Lunges 58% 62%
Wall balls 67% 43%
Roxzone 62% 73%
Runs 62% 88%

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

Part by part

Part Melissa Katherine
SkiErg 97% 19%
Sled push 99% 30%
Sled pull 91% 43%
Burpee broad jump 74% 98%
Row 97% 4%
Farmers carry 39% 47%
Sandbag lunges 58% 62%
Wall balls 67% 43%
Roxzone (moving) 62% 73%
Runs (8 km) 62% 88%

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
Katherine · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women1:29:33
3:155:445:083:195:466:425:134:065:526:595:292:165:144:545:457:506:08
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, Katherine · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women: 41:42 running, 41:50 at the stations and 6:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:50).

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Part Melissa · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women Katherine · Cape Town 2025 · Open Women
Run 1 3:53 3:15
SkiErg 4:38 5:44
Run 2 5:51 5:08
Sled push 1:34 3:19
Run 3 6:25 5:46
Sled pull 4:41 6:42
Run 4 6:20 5:13
Burpee broad jump 6:00 4:06
Run 5 6:43 5:52
Row 4:54 6:59
Run 6 6:28 5:29
Farmers carry 2:23 2:16
Run 7 6:02 5:14
Sandbag lunges 5:03 4:54
Run 8 5:54 5:45
Wall balls 6:28 7:50
Roxzone 6:42 6:08
Finish 1:29:50 1:29:33

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Melissa Katherine Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Women · 19 Jul 2025 1:29:50 1:29:33 0:17 · Katherine faster
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