Francois vs Alexander

RSA RSA · Open Men · 10 results

Francois Marais

1:03:08 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
2nd of 717 place in that race · 717 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Alexander Kruger

1:04:13 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
9th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Francois: Cape Town 2026, Open Men · Alexander: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLunges
no split
Wall ballsRoxzoneRuns
FrancoisAlexanderedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Francois and Alexander sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Francois: strongest on Runs (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 79%).Alexander: strongest on Runs (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 63%).

See the numbers
Part Francois: faster than Alexander: faster than
Ski 90% 63%
Push 81% 97%
Pull 96% 96%
BBJ 99% 94%
Row 99% 98%
Carry 98% 93%
Lunges no split 95%
Wall balls 99% 97%
Roxzone 79% 98%
Runs 99% 98%

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

Part by part

Part Francois Alexander
SkiErg 90% 63%
Sled push 81% 97%
Sled pull 96% 96%
Burpee broad jump 99% 94%
Row 99% 98%
Farmers carry 98% 93%
Sandbag lunges — 95%
Wall balls 99% 97%
Roxzone (moving) 79% 98%
Runs (8 km) 99% 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

Francois · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:03:08
2:534:094:112:354:233:404:183:034:224:184:191:284:124:274:125:01
Alexander · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:04:13
2:454:263:531:574:223:244:203:454:374:164:241:434:173:554:234:143:38
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.Francois · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 33:05 running, 23:25 at the stations and 5:01 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:18).Below, Alexander · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 33:01 running, 27:40 at the stations and 3:38 in the roxzone; the longest station was the SkiErg (4:26).

See the numbers
Part Francois · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men Alexander · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:53 2:45
SkiErg 4:09 4:26
Run 2 4:11 3:53
Sled push 2:35 1:57
Run 3 4:23 4:22
Sled pull 3:40 3:24
Run 4 4:18 4:20
Burpee broad jump 3:03 3:45
Run 5 4:22 4:37
Row 4:18 4:16
Run 6 4:19 4:24
Farmers carry 1:28 1:43
Run 7 4:12 4:17
Sandbag lunges — 3:55
Run 8 4:27 4:23
Wall balls 4:12 4:14
Roxzone 5:01 3:38
Finish 1:03:08 1:04:13

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Francois Alexander Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:23:20 1:04:13 19:07 · Alexander faster
Cape Town 2026 Open Men · 15 Aug 2026 1:03:47 1:04:13 0:26 · Francois faster
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