Donovan vs Gareth

RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Donovan Drew

1:27:51 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
237th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Gareth Light

1:27:48 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
236th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Donovan: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Gareth: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Donovan and Gareth sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Donovan: strongest on Ski (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 43%).Gareth: strongest on Push (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 29%).

See the numbers
Part Donovan: faster than Gareth: faster than
Ski 84% 97%
Push 60% 99%
Pull 65% 81%
BBJ 46% 64%
Row 60% 75%
Carry 69% 91%
Lunges 54% 70%
Wall balls 43% 29%
Roxzone 68% 51%
Runs 66% 59%

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

Part by part

Part Donovan Gareth
SkiErg 84% 97%
Sled push 60% 99%
Sled pull 65% 81%
Burpee broad jump 46% 64%
Row 60% 75%
Farmers carry 69% 91%
Sandbag lunges 54% 70%
Wall balls 43% 29%
Roxzone (moving) 68% 51%
Runs (8 km) 66% 59%

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

Donovan · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:27:51
4:544:134:532:435:144:305:206:235:474:505:492:085:425:476:048:105:33
Gareth · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:27:48
3:414:025:111:495:424:015:435:266:024:415:471:456:055:096:529:286:32
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.Donovan · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 43:43 running, 38:44 at the stations and 5:33 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:10).Below, Gareth · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 45:02 running, 36:21 at the stations and 6:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:28).

See the numbers
Part Donovan · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Gareth · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:54 3:41
SkiErg 4:13 4:02
Run 2 4:53 5:11
Sled push 2:43 1:49
Run 3 5:14 5:42
Sled pull 4:30 4:01
Run 4 5:20 5:43
Burpee broad jump 6:23 5:26
Run 5 5:47 6:02
Row 4:50 4:41
Run 6 5:49 5:47
Farmers carry 2:08 1:45
Run 7 5:42 6:05
Sandbag lunges 5:47 5:09
Run 8 6:04 6:52
Wall balls 8:10 9:28
Roxzone 5:33 6:32
Finish 1:27:51 1:27:48

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Donovan Gareth Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:27:51 1:27:48 0:03 · Gareth faster
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