Ben vs Alexander

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Ben Herring

1:50:54 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3549th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
AUT AUT · Open Men · 5 results

Alexander Orthuber

1:42:56 best Open Men time · Cologne 2025
1568th of 1,840 place in that race · 1,840 Open Men finishers

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

Ben: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Alexander: Cologne 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ben and Alexander 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 52% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 4%).Alexander: strongest on Row (faster than 56% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 3%).

See the numbers
Part Ben: faster than Alexander: faster than
Ski 52% 28%
Push 4% 3%
Pull 19% 35%
BBJ 9% 13%
Row 23% 56%
Carry 31% 22%
Lunges 26% 17%
Wall balls 19% 29%
Roxzone 7% 23%
Runs 8% 14%

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

Part by part

Part Ben Alexander
SkiErg 52% 28%
Sled push 4% 3%
Sled pull 19% 35%
Burpee broad jump 9% 13%
Row 23% 56%
Farmers carry 31% 22%
Sandbag lunges 26% 17%
Wall balls 19% 29%
Roxzone (moving) 7% 23%
Runs (8 km) 8% 14%

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 · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:50:54
6:114:296:015:326:146:186:318:426:555:096:342:276:326:136:5810:0110:16
Alexander · Cologne 2025 · Open Men1:42:56
5:454:355:474:355:534:486:117:416:074:425:592:286:156:367:438:229:29
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 · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 51:56 running, 48:51 at the stations and 10:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (10:01).Below, Alexander · Cologne 2025 · Open Men: 49:40 running, 43:47 at the stations and 9:29 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:22).

See the numbers
Part Ben · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Alexander · Cologne 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 6:11 5:45
SkiErg 4:29 4:35
Run 2 6:01 5:47
Sled push 5:32 4:35
Run 3 6:14 5:53
Sled pull 6:18 4:48
Run 4 6:31 6:11
Burpee broad jump 8:42 7:41
Run 5 6:55 6:07
Row 5:09 4:42
Run 6 6:34 5:59
Farmers carry 2:27 2:28
Run 7 6:32 6:15
Sandbag lunges 6:13 6:36
Run 8 6:58 7:43
Wall balls 10:01 8:22
Roxzone 10:16 9:29
Finish 1:50:54 1:42:56

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ben Alexander Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:50:54 1:50:50 0:04 · Alexander faster
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