Matthew vs Graham

GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Matthew Nicholls

1:27:49 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2232nd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Graham Schwikkard

1:27:49 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2234th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Matthew: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Graham: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matthew and Graham sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matthew: strongest on Push (faster than 95% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 26%).Graham: strongest on BBJ (faster than 67% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 22%).

See the numbers
Part Matthew: faster than Graham: faster than
Ski 39% 22%
Push 95% 24%
Pull 49% 51%
BBJ 58% 67%
Row 69% 54%
Carry 31% 23%
Lunges 58% 59%
Wall balls 39% 27%
Roxzone 26% 59%
Runs 34% 40%

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

Part by part

Part Matthew Graham
SkiErg 39% 22%
Sled push 95% 24%
Sled pull 49% 51%
Burpee broad jump 58% 67%
Row 69% 54%
Farmers carry 31% 23%
Sandbag lunges 58% 59%
Wall balls 39% 27%
Roxzone (moving) 26% 59%
Runs (8 km) 34% 40%

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

Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:27:49
6:044:355:052:095:115:045:185:195:284:385:082:275:094:555:288:027:56
Graham · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:27:49
5:334:464:454:024:505:004:554:575:164:475:172:375:244:535:468:566:15
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.Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 42:51 running, 37:09 at the stations and 7:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:02) and the shortest the sled push (2:09).Below, Graham · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 41:46 running, 39:58 at the stations and 6:15 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:56).

See the numbers
Part Matthew · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Graham · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:04 5:33
SkiErg 4:35 4:46
Run 2 5:05 4:45
Sled push 2:09 4:02
Run 3 5:11 4:50
Sled pull 5:04 5:00
Run 4 5:18 4:55
Burpee broad jump 5:19 4:57
Run 5 5:28 5:16
Row 4:38 4:47
Run 6 5:08 5:17
Farmers carry 2:27 2:37
Run 7 5:09 5:24
Sandbag lunges 4:55 4:53
Run 8 5:28 5:46
Wall balls 8:02 8:56
Roxzone 7:56 6:15
Finish 1:27:49 1:27:49

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matthew Graham Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:27:49 1:27:49 level
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