Marta vs Karen

UKR UKR · Open Women · 2 results

Marta Barchuk

1:57:34 best Open Women time · Rome 2025
758th of 835 place in that race · 835 Open Women finishers
GBR GBR · Open Women · 6 results

Karen Gunn-Smith

1:27:42 best Open Women time · Chicago 2025
14th of 52 place in that race · 52 Open Women finishers

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

Marta: Rome 2025, Open Women · Karen: Birmingham Birm, Open Women

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRow
no split
CarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
MartaKarenedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Marta and Karen sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Marta: strongest on Carry (faster than 88% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 1%).Karen: strongest on Pull (faster than 79% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 32%).

See the numbers
Part Marta: faster than Karen: faster than
Ski 12% 66%
Push 32% 56%
Pull 41% 79%
BBJ 25% 79%
Row no split 43%
Carry 88% 48%
Lunges 8% 67%
Wall balls 1% 71%
Roxzone 27% 32%
Runs 4% 35%

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

Part by part

Part Marta Karen
SkiErg 12% 66%
Sled push 32% 56%
Sled pull 41% 79%
Burpee broad jump 25% 79%
Row — 43%
Farmers carry 88% 48%
Sandbag lunges 8% 67%
Wall balls 1% 71%
Roxzone (moving) 27% 32%
Runs (8 km) 4% 35%

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

Marta · Rome 2025 · Open Women1:57:34
7:165:4510:453:106:196:186:527:347:497:121:487:187:358:5814:158:23
Karen · Birmingham Birm · Open Women1:33:03
6:065:065:313:075:444:365:505:186:085:326:202:206:154:306:385:508:20
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.Marta · Rome 2025 · Open Women: 1:02:30 running, 46:25 at the stations and 8:23 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (14:15).Below, Karen · Birmingham Birm · Open Women: 48:31 running, 36:19 at the stations and 8:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:50).

See the numbers
Part Marta · Rome 2025 · Open Women Karen · Birmingham Birm · Open Women
Run 1 7:16 6:06
SkiErg 5:45 5:06
Run 2 10:45 5:31
Sled push 3:10 3:07
Run 3 6:19 5:44
Sled pull 6:18 4:36
Run 4 6:52 5:50
Burpee broad jump 7:34 5:18
Run 5 7:49 6:08
Row — 5:32
Run 6 7:12 6:20
Farmers carry 1:48 2:20
Run 7 7:18 6:15
Sandbag lunges 7:35 4:30
Run 8 8:58 6:38
Wall balls 14:15 5:50
Roxzone 8:23 8:20
Finish 1:57:34 1:33:03

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Marta Karen Gap
Rome 2025 Open Women · 27 Sep 2025 1:57:34 1:57:42 0:08 · Marta faster
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