Hassen vs Neil

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Hassen Essop

2:26:29 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2025
607th of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Neil Rom

2:13:21 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
721st of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers

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

Hassen: Johannesburg 2025, Open Men · Neil: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Hassen and Neil sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Hassen: strongest on Carry (faster than 40% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 1%).Neil: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 33% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 4%).

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Part Hassen: faster than Neil: faster than
Ski 1% 7%
Push 24% 14%
Pull 15% 18%
BBJ 2% 7%
Row 7% 17%
Carry 40% 19%
Lunges 9% 24%
Wall balls 9% 33%
Roxzone 14% 4%
Runs 11% 6%

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

Part by part

Part Hassen Neil
SkiErg 1% 7%
Sled push 24% 14%
Sled pull 15% 18%
Burpee broad jump 2% 7%
Row 7% 17%
Farmers carry 40% 19%
Sandbag lunges 9% 24%
Wall balls 9% 33%
Roxzone (moving) 14% 4%
Runs (8 km) 11% 6%

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

Hassen · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men2:26:29
7:536:077:484:498:027:518:1313:508:356:108:412:288:378:5110:5214:5912:54
Neil · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men2:13:21
7:325:0710:124:209:497:007:1710:337:365:417:502:448:006:4910:019:2813:31
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.Hassen · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men: 1:08:41 running, 1:05:05 at the stations and 12:54 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:59).Below, Neil · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 1:08:17 running, 51:42 at the stations and 13:31 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (10:33).

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Part Hassen · Johannesburg 2025 · Open Men Neil · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 7:53 7:32
SkiErg 6:07 5:07
Run 2 7:48 10:12
Sled push 4:49 4:20
Run 3 8:02 9:49
Sled pull 7:51 7:00
Run 4 8:13 7:17
Burpee broad jump 13:50 10:33
Run 5 8:35 7:36
Row 6:10 5:41
Run 6 8:41 7:50
Farmers carry 2:28 2:44
Run 7 8:37 8:00
Sandbag lunges 8:51 6:49
Run 8 10:52 10:01
Wall balls 14:59 9:28
Roxzone 12:54 13:31
Finish 2:26:29 2:13:21

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Hassen Neil Gap
Johannesburg 2025 Open Men · 29 Nov 2025 2:26:29 2:24:52 1:37 · Neil faster
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