Daniel vs Jaco

RSA RSA · Open Men · 1 result

Daniel Nel

1:42:34 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2025
486th of 781 place in that race · 781 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Jaco Hough

1:40:09 best Open Men time · Cape Town 2026
403rd of 652 place in that race · 652 Open Men finishers

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

Daniel: Cape Town 2025, Open Men · Jaco: Cape Town 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Daniel and Jaco sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Daniel: strongest on Ski (faster than 62% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 20%).Jaco: strongest on Roxzone (faster than 57% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 23%).

See the numbers
Part Daniel: faster than Jaco: faster than
Ski 62% 46%
Push 43% 37%
Pull 37% 31%
BBJ 20% 44%
Row 34% 43%
Carry 52% 23%
Lunges 42% 25%
Wall balls 59% 47%
Roxzone 34% 57%
Runs 33% 33%

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

Part by part

Part Daniel Jaco
SkiErg 62% 46%
Sled push 43% 37%
Sled pull 37% 31%
Burpee broad jump 20% 44%
Row 34% 43%
Farmers carry 52% 23%
Sandbag lunges 42% 25%
Wall balls 59% 47%
Roxzone (moving) 34% 57%
Runs (8 km) 33% 33%

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

Daniel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:42:34
3:594:218:463:156:205:516:268:056:445:186:202:096:115:507:197:198:30
Jaco · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men1:40:09
4:264:355:473:086:095:386:256:306:475:027:122:587:067:247:067:556:08
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.Daniel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 52:04 running, 42:08 at the stations and 8:30 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (8:05).Below, Jaco · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men: 50:58 running, 43:10 at the stations and 6:08 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:55).

See the numbers
Part Daniel · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men Jaco · Cape Town 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 3:59 4:26
SkiErg 4:21 4:35
Run 2 8:46 5:47
Sled push 3:15 3:08
Run 3 6:20 6:09
Sled pull 5:51 5:38
Run 4 6:26 6:25
Burpee broad jump 8:05 6:30
Run 5 6:44 6:47
Row 5:18 5:02
Run 6 6:20 7:12
Farmers carry 2:09 2:58
Run 7 6:11 7:06
Sandbag lunges 5:50 7:24
Run 8 7:19 7:06
Wall balls 7:19 7:55
Roxzone 8:30 6:08
Finish 1:42:34 1:40:09

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Daniel Jaco Gap
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:42:34 1:42:31 0:03 · Jaco faster
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