Neil vs Nicolas

GBR GBR · Open Men · 9 results

Neil Emslie

1:12:25 best Open Men time · Gdańsk 2025
90th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers
SUI SUI · Open Men · 6 results

Nicolas Gmünder

1:14:58 best Open Men time · Barcelona 2026
600th of 2,350 place in that race · 2,350 Open Men finishers

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

Neil: Gdańsk 2025, Open Men · Nicolas: Barcelona 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Neil and Nicolas sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Neil: strongest on Runs (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 55%).Nicolas: strongest on BBJ (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 42%).

See the numbers
Part Neil: faster than Nicolas: faster than
Ski 71% 42%
Push 69% 45%
Pull 89% 92%
BBJ 80% 98%
Row 80% 79%
Carry 55% 84%
Lunges 62% 80%
Wall balls 68% 98%
Roxzone 73% 71%
Runs 93% 43%

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

Part by part

Part Neil Nicolas
SkiErg 71% 42%
Sled push 69% 45%
Sled pull 89% 92%
Burpee broad jump 80% 98%
Row 80% 79%
Farmers carry 55% 84%
Sandbag lunges 62% 80%
Wall balls 68% 98%
Roxzone (moving) 73% 71%
Runs (8 km) 93% 43%

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

Neil · Gdańsk 2025 · Open Men1:12:25
3:184:114:182:484:223:464:234:174:224:314:261:574:225:024:395:486:04
Nicolas · Barcelona 2026 · Open Men1:14:58
4:544:465:003:315:153:335:123:005:224:355:001:434:504:045:013:545:26
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.Neil · Gdańsk 2025 · Open Men: 34:10 running, 32:20 at the stations and 6:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:48).Below, Nicolas · Barcelona 2026 · Open Men: 40:34 running, 29:07 at the stations and 5:26 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:46).

See the numbers
Part Neil · Gdańsk 2025 · Open Men Nicolas · Barcelona 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:18 4:54
SkiErg 4:11 4:46
Run 2 4:18 5:00
Sled push 2:48 3:31
Run 3 4:22 5:15
Sled pull 3:46 3:33
Run 4 4:23 5:12
Burpee broad jump 4:17 3:00
Run 5 4:22 5:22
Row 4:31 4:35
Run 6 4:26 5:00
Farmers carry 1:57 1:43
Run 7 4:22 4:50
Sandbag lunges 5:02 4:04
Run 8 4:39 5:01
Wall balls 5:48 3:54
Roxzone 6:04 5:26
Finish 1:12:25 1:14:58

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Neil Nicolas Gap
Barcelona 2026 Open Men · 16 May 2026 1:14:57 1:14:58 0:01 · Neil faster
London ExCeL 2025 Open Men · 4 Dec 2025 1:16:39 1:17:41 1:02 · Neil faster
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