Michael vs Josh

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Michael Meadowcroft

1:32:56 best Open Men time · Madrid 2025
1919th of 2,673 place in that race · 2,673 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Josh Smith

1:07:00 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
133rd of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers

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

Michael: Madrid 2025, Open Men · Josh: Birmingham 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Michael and Josh sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Michael: strongest on Push (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 13%).Josh: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 69%).

See the numbers
Part Michael: faster than Josh: faster than
Ski 80% 90%
Push 94% 85%
Pull 39% 94%
BBJ 15% 93%
Row 43% 99%
Carry 54% 69%
Lunges 29% 95%
Wall balls 27% 98%
Roxzone 13% 98%
Runs 32% 88%

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

Part by part

Part Michael Josh
SkiErg 80% 90%
Sled push 94% 85%
Sled pull 39% 94%
Burpee broad jump 15% 93%
Row 43% 99%
Farmers carry 54% 69%
Sandbag lunges 29% 95%
Wall balls 27% 98%
Roxzone (moving) 13% 98%
Runs (8 km) 32% 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

Michael · Madrid 2025 · Open Men1:32:56
4:424:304:592:145:305:025:297:185:284:535:292:165:005:496:328:079:47
Josh · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:07:00
4:274:053:572:214:163:334:193:484:244:094:211:554:233:264:344:045:04
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.Michael · Madrid 2025 · Open Men: 43:08 running, 40:09 at the stations and 9:47 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:07) and the shortest the sled push (2:14).Below, Josh · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 34:41 running, 27:21 at the stations and 5:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:09).

See the numbers
Part Michael · Madrid 2025 · Open Men Josh · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:42 4:27
SkiErg 4:30 4:05
Run 2 4:59 3:57
Sled push 2:14 2:21
Run 3 5:30 4:16
Sled pull 5:02 3:33
Run 4 5:29 4:19
Burpee broad jump 7:18 3:48
Run 5 5:28 4:24
Row 4:53 4:09
Run 6 5:29 4:21
Farmers carry 2:16 1:55
Run 7 5:00 4:23
Sandbag lunges 5:49 3:26
Run 8 6:32 4:34
Wall balls 8:07 4:04
Roxzone 9:47 5:04
Finish 1:32:56 1:07:00

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Michael Josh Gap
Madrid 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 1:32:56 1:32:57 0:01 · Michael faster
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