James vs Paul

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

James Brown

1:05:53 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
364th of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Paul James

1:31:12 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2026
1818th of 2,728 place in that race · 2,728 Open Men finishers

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

James: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Paul: Cardiff 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where James and Paul sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.James: strongest on Runs (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 77%).Paul: strongest on Push (faster than 91% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 14%).

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Part James: faster than Paul: faster than
Ski 90% 14%
Push 84% 91%
Pull 86% 59%
BBJ 82% 56%
Row 93% 22%
Carry 83% 20%
Lunges 93% 61%
Wall balls 77% 14%
Roxzone 95% 26%
Runs 96% 31%

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

Part by part

Part James Paul
SkiErg 90% 14%
Sled push 84% 91%
Sled pull 86% 59%
Burpee broad jump 82% 56%
Row 93% 22%
Farmers carry 83% 20%
Sandbag lunges 93% 61%
Wall balls 77% 14%
Roxzone (moving) 95% 26%
Runs (8 km) 96% 31%

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

James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:05:53
2:434:273:032:213:103:533:124:133:174:273:161:413:193:374:405:468:56
Paul · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men1:31:12
6:044:595:112:235:234:095:325:345:385:125:453:245:154:406:4910:175:00
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.James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 26:41 running, 30:25 at the stations and 8:56 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:46).Below, Paul · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men: 45:37 running, 40:38 at the stations and 5:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:17) and the shortest the sled push (2:23).

See the numbers
Part James · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Paul · Cardiff 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 2:43 6:04
SkiErg 4:27 4:59
Run 2 3:03 5:11
Sled push 2:21 2:23
Run 3 3:10 5:23
Sled pull 3:53 4:09
Run 4 3:12 5:32
Burpee broad jump 4:13 5:34
Run 5 3:17 5:38
Row 4:27 5:12
Run 6 3:16 5:45
Farmers carry 1:41 3:24
Run 7 3:19 5:15
Sandbag lunges 3:37 4:40
Run 8 4:40 6:49
Wall balls 5:46 10:17
Roxzone 8:56 5:00
Finish 1:05:53 1:31:12

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race James Paul Gap
Cardiff 2026 Open Men · 29 Apr 2026 1:31:13 1:31:12 0:01 · Paul faster
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