Emmanuel vs Luke

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Emmanuel Nxele

1:53:23 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
509th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

Luke Theron

1:53:19 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
508th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers

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

Emmanuel: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men · Luke: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Emmanuel and Luke sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Emmanuel: strongest on Carry (faster than 56% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 15%).Luke: strongest on Ski (faster than 73% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 6%).

See the numbers
Part Emmanuel: faster than Luke: faster than
Ski 19% 73%
Push 26% 35%
Pull 27% 34%
BBJ 35% 20%
Row 15% 35%
Carry 56% 57%
Lunges 22% 19%
Wall balls 51% 47%
Roxzone 29% 6%
Runs 28% 45%

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

Part by part

Part Emmanuel Luke
SkiErg 19% 73%
Sled push 26% 35%
Sled pull 27% 34%
Burpee broad jump 35% 20%
Row 15% 35%
Farmers carry 56% 57%
Sandbag lunges 22% 19%
Wall balls 51% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 29% 6%
Runs (8 km) 28% 45%

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

Emmanuel · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men1:53:23
8:295:085:523:496:146:466:058:146:156:075:442:185:537:419:238:4310:49
Luke · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men1:53:19
7:144:334:483:354:596:285:149:445:455:355:342:175:327:5610:138:5615:03
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.Emmanuel · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 53:54 running, 48:46 at the stations and 10:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:43).Below, Luke · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 49:19 running, 49:03 at the stations and 15:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:44).

See the numbers
Part Emmanuel · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men Luke · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 8:29 7:14
SkiErg 5:08 4:33
Run 2 5:52 4:48
Sled push 3:49 3:35
Run 3 6:14 4:59
Sled pull 6:46 6:28
Run 4 6:05 5:14
Burpee broad jump 8:14 9:44
Run 5 6:15 5:45
Row 6:07 5:35
Run 6 5:44 5:34
Farmers carry 2:18 2:17
Run 7 5:53 5:32
Sandbag lunges 7:41 7:56
Run 8 9:23 10:13
Wall balls 8:43 8:56
Roxzone 10:49 15:03
Finish 1:53:23 1:53:19

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Emmanuel Luke Gap
Johannesburg 2026 Open Men · 30 May 2026 1:53:23 1:53:19 0:04 · Luke faster
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