Matt vs Lee

NZL NZL · Open Men · 1 result

Matt Palmer

1:55:40 best Open Men time · Auckland 2026
999th of 1,138 place in that race · 1,138 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

Lee Holdaway

1:34:59 best Open Men time · Chicago 2025
50th of 88 place in that race · 88 Open Men finishers

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

Matt: Auckland 2026, Open Men · Lee: Stuttgart 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Matt and Lee sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Matt: strongest on Push (faster than 38% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 1%).Lee: strongest on Pull (faster than 55% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 5%).

See the numbers
Part Matt: faster than Lee: faster than
Ski 14% 17%
Push 38% 16%
Pull 22% 55%
BBJ 1% 36%
Row 12% 36%
Carry 3% 5%
Lunges 3% 28%
Wall balls 34% 31%
Roxzone 9% 42%
Runs 25% 25%

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

Part by part

Part Matt Lee
SkiErg 14% 17%
Sled push 38% 16%
Sled pull 22% 55%
Burpee broad jump 1% 36%
Row 12% 36%
Farmers carry 3% 5%
Sandbag lunges 3% 28%
Wall balls 34% 31%
Roxzone (moving) 9% 42%
Runs (8 km) 25% 25%

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

Matt · Auckland 2026 · Open Men1:55:40
6:084:465:393:366:126:126:4013:346:225:316:243:086:1610:407:348:029:05
Lee · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men1:36:05
5:514:525:183:315:305:055:376:285:424:585:433:035:466:086:497:597:53
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.Matt · Auckland 2026 · Open Men: 51:16 running, 55:29 at the stations and 9:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (13:34).Below, Lee · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men: 46:17 running, 42:04 at the stations and 7:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:59).

See the numbers
Part Matt · Auckland 2026 · Open Men Lee · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 6:08 5:51
SkiErg 4:46 4:52
Run 2 5:39 5:18
Sled push 3:36 3:31
Run 3 6:12 5:30
Sled pull 6:12 5:05
Run 4 6:40 5:37
Burpee broad jump 13:34 6:28
Run 5 6:22 5:42
Row 5:31 4:58
Run 6 6:24 5:43
Farmers carry 3:08 3:03
Run 7 6:16 5:46
Sandbag lunges 10:40 6:08
Run 8 7:34 6:49
Wall balls 8:02 7:59
Roxzone 9:05 7:53
Finish 1:55:40 1:36:05

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Matt Lee Gap
Auckland 2026 Open Men · 29 Jan 2026 1:55:40 1:55:49 0:09 · Matt faster
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