Mehdi vs Darren

MAR MAR · Pro Men · 8 results

Mehdi el Kessi

1:04:29 best Open Men time · Ghent 2025
48th of 1,429 place in that race · 1,429 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 32 results

Darren Hancock

1:00:22 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
68th of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers

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

Mehdi: Ghent 2025, Open Men · Darren: Birmingham Birm, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MehdiDarrenedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Mehdi and Darren sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Mehdi: strongest on Pull (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 48%).Darren: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 83%).

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Part Mehdi: faster than Darren: faster than
Ski 74% 99%
Push 67% 97%
Pull 98% 95%
BBJ 97% 97%
Row 85% 98%
Carry 48% 94%
Lunges 98% 83%
Wall balls 96% 99%
Roxzone 97% 99%
Runs 95% 98%

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

Part by part

Part Mehdi Darren
SkiErg 74% 99%
Sled push 67% 97%
Sled pull 98% 95%
Burpee broad jump 97% 97%
Row 85% 98%
Farmers carry 48% 94%
Sandbag lunges 98% 83%
Wall balls 96% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 97% 99%
Runs (8 km) 95% 98%

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

Mehdi · Ghent 2025 · Open Men1:04:29
4:064:203:532:503:543:233:553:273:584:283:532:034:003:164:104:234:38
Darren · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:00:22
4:044:003:332:253:413:173:463:023:434:133:431:333:514:043:463:464:03
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.Mehdi · Ghent 2025 · Open Men: 31:49 running, 28:10 at the stations and 4:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:28).Below, Darren · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 30:08 running, 26:20 at the stations and 4:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:13).

See the numbers
Part Mehdi · Ghent 2025 · Open Men Darren · Birmingham Birm · Open Men
Run 1 4:06 4:04
SkiErg 4:20 4:00
Run 2 3:53 3:33
Sled push 2:50 2:25
Run 3 3:54 3:41
Sled pull 3:23 3:17
Run 4 3:55 3:46
Burpee broad jump 3:27 3:02
Run 5 3:58 3:43
Row 4:28 4:13
Run 6 3:53 3:43
Farmers carry 2:03 1:33
Run 7 4:00 3:51
Sandbag lunges 3:16 4:04
Run 8 4:10 3:46
Wall balls 4:23 3:46
Roxzone 4:38 4:03
Finish 1:04:29 1:00:22

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Mehdi Darren Gap
Geneva 2026 Pro Men · 9 Oct 2026 1:04:46 1:04:46 level
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