Ben vs Liam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Ben Balfour

1:52:53 best Open Men time · London 2025
1803rd of 1,917 place in that race · 1,917 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Liam Edwards

1:42:07 best Open Men time · Cardiff 2025
1800th of 2,041 place in that race · 2,041 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: London 2025, Open Men · Liam: Cardiff 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ben and Liam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ben: strongest on Ski (faster than 37% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 5%).Liam: strongest on Pull (faster than 34% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 0%).

See the numbers
Part Ben: faster than Liam: faster than
Ski 37% 21%
Push 19% 18%
Pull 12% 34%
BBJ 5% 14%
Row 30% 0%
Carry 10% 18%
Lunges 7% 9%
Wall balls 14% 13%
Roxzone 9% 14%
Runs 5% 17%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Liam
SkiErg 37% 21%
Sled push 19% 18%
Sled pull 12% 34%
Burpee broad jump 5% 14%
Row 30% 0%
Farmers carry 10% 18%
Sandbag lunges 7% 9%
Wall balls 14% 13%
Roxzone (moving) 9% 14%
Runs (8 km) 5% 17%

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

Ben · London 2025 · Open Men1:52:53
5:404:285:293:205:335:455:479:287:284:536:403:026:478:2611:4710:268:00
Liam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men1:42:07
5:464:495:493:335:515:116:058:126:076:535:352:415:136:596:469:516:46
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.Ben · London 2025 · Open Men: 55:11 running, 49:47 at the stations and 8:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:26).Below, Liam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men: 47:13 running, 48:08 at the stations and 6:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:51).

See the numbers
Part Ben · London 2025 · Open Men Liam · Cardiff 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:40 5:46
SkiErg 4:28 4:49
Run 2 5:29 5:49
Sled push 3:20 3:33
Run 3 5:33 5:51
Sled pull 5:45 5:11
Run 4 5:47 6:05
Burpee broad jump 9:28 8:12
Run 5 7:28 6:07
Row 4:53 6:53
Run 6 6:40 5:35
Farmers carry 3:02 2:41
Run 7 6:47 5:13
Sandbag lunges 8:26 6:59
Run 8 11:47 6:46
Wall balls 10:26 9:51
Roxzone 8:00 6:46
Finish 1:52:53 1:42:07

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ben Liam Gap
London 2025 Open Men · 3 May 2025 1:52:53 1:52:50 0:03 · Liam faster
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