Stuart vs Sam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Stuart Palmer

1:21:42 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
1603rd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Sam Bevan

1:20:17 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2024
945th of 2,732 place in that race · 2,732 Open Men finishers

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

Stuart: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Sam: Birmingham 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Stuart and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Stuart: strongest on Ski (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 21%).Sam: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 20%).

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Part Stuart: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 96% 59%
Push 58% 20%
Pull 68% 54%
BBJ 52% 63%
Row 57% 75%
Carry 75% 25%
Lunges 22% 69%
Wall balls 21% 84%
Roxzone 69% 60%
Runs 75% 63%

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

Part by part

Part Stuart Sam
SkiErg 96% 59%
Sled push 58% 20%
Sled pull 68% 54%
Burpee broad jump 52% 63%
Row 57% 75%
Farmers carry 75% 25%
Sandbag lunges 22% 69%
Wall balls 21% 84%
Roxzone (moving) 69% 60%
Runs (8 km) 75% 63%

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

Stuart · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:21:42
4:454:054:043:064:254:324:265:314:414:454:291:514:246:294:479:385:52
Sam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men1:20:17
5:234:204:283:244:494:464:455:214:444:324:442:304:544:295:045:077:04
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.Stuart · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 36:01 running, 39:56 at the stations and 5:52 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:38).Below, Sam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men: 38:51 running, 34:29 at the stations and 7:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:21).

See the numbers
Part Stuart · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Sam · Birmingham 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 4:45 5:23
SkiErg 4:05 4:20
Run 2 4:04 4:28
Sled push 3:06 3:24
Run 3 4:25 4:49
Sled pull 4:32 4:46
Run 4 4:26 4:45
Burpee broad jump 5:31 5:21
Run 5 4:41 4:44
Row 4:45 4:32
Run 6 4:29 4:44
Farmers carry 1:51 2:30
Run 7 4:24 4:54
Sandbag lunges 6:29 4:29
Run 8 4:47 5:04
Wall balls 9:38 5:07
Roxzone 5:52 7:04
Finish 1:21:42 1:20:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Stuart Sam Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:21:42 1:21:42 level
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