Ben vs Stephen

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 · 3 results

Stephen Beer

1:43:34 best Open Men time · London ExCeL 2025
4832nd of 5,554 place in that race · 5,554 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: London 2025, Open Men · Stephen: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ben and Stephen 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%).Stephen: strongest on Ski (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 5%).

See the numbers
Part Ben: faster than Stephen: faster than
Ski 37% 64%
Push 19% 27%
Pull 12% 40%
BBJ 5% 24%
Row 30% 21%
Carry 10% 14%
Lunges 7% 30%
Wall balls 14% 32%
Roxzone 9% 8%
Runs 5% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Stephen
SkiErg 37% 64%
Sled push 19% 27%
Sled pull 12% 40%
Burpee broad jump 5% 24%
Row 30% 21%
Farmers carry 10% 14%
Sandbag lunges 7% 30%
Wall balls 14% 32%
Roxzone (moving) 9% 8%
Runs (8 km) 5% 5%

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
Stephen · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:43:34
3:234:434:273:114:325:045:026:585:325:185:322:425:395:5910:568:4116:03
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.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, Stephen · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 45:02 running, 42:36 at the stations and 16:03 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:41).

See the numbers
Part Ben · London 2025 · Open Men Stephen · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 5:40 3:23
SkiErg 4:28 4:43
Run 2 5:29 4:27
Sled push 3:20 3:11
Run 3 5:33 4:32
Sled pull 5:45 5:04
Run 4 5:47 5:02
Burpee broad jump 9:28 6:58
Run 5 7:28 5:32
Row 4:53 5:18
Run 6 6:40 5:32
Farmers carry 3:02 2:42
Run 7 6:47 5:39
Sandbag lunges 8:26 5:59
Run 8 11:47 10:56
Wall balls 10:26 8:41
Roxzone 8:00 16:03
Finish 1:52:53 1:43:34

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ben Stephen Gap
London 2025 Open Men · 3 May 2025 1:52:53 1:53:06 0:13 · Ben faster
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