Bertus vs Dean

RSA RSA · Pro Men · 4 results

Bertus Strauss

1:08:17 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
20th of 191 place in that race · 191 Pro Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 7 results

Dean Berndt

1:07:41 best Pro Men time · Cape Town 2026
27th of 178 place in that race · 178 Pro Men finishers

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

Bertus: Cape Town 2026, Pro Men · Dean: Cape Town 2025, Open Men

Not the same division. Bertus's race here is Pro Men and Dean's is Open Men, with different weights and fields. The chart shows how each did against their own field, not who is faster.

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
BertusDeanedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Bertus and Dean sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Bertus: strongest on Carry (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 76%).Dean: strongest on Row (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 87%).

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Part Bertus: faster than Dean: faster than
Ski 77% 87%
Push 87% 97%
Pull 89% 94%
BBJ 97% 97%
Row 82% 99%
Carry 98% 92%
Lunges 83% 96%
Wall balls 88% 96%
Roxzone 83% 99%
Runs 76% 99%

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

Part by part

Part Bertus Dean
SkiErg 77% 87%
Sled push 87% 97%
Sled pull 89% 94%
Burpee broad jump 97% 97%
Row 82% 99%
Farmers carry 98% 92%
Sandbag lunges 83% 96%
Wall balls 88% 96%
Roxzone (moving) 83% 99%
Runs (8 km) 76% 99%

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

Bertus · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men1:08:17
3:044:004:313:014:444:274:452:464:364:224:341:264:344:034:534:543:44
Dean · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men1:03:35
2:484:084:021:584:223:434:163:214:144:134:121:374:083:384:194:414:02
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.Bertus · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men: 35:41 running, 28:59 at the stations and 3:44 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:54).Below, Dean · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men: 32:21 running, 27:19 at the stations and 4:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (4:41).

See the numbers
Part Bertus · Cape Town 2026 · Pro Men Dean · Cape Town 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:04 2:48
SkiErg 4:00 4:08
Run 2 4:31 4:02
Sled push 3:01 1:58
Run 3 4:44 4:22
Sled pull 4:27 3:43
Run 4 4:45 4:16
Burpee broad jump 2:46 3:21
Run 5 4:36 4:14
Row 4:22 4:13
Run 6 4:34 4:12
Farmers carry 1:26 1:37
Run 7 4:34 4:08
Sandbag lunges 4:03 3:38
Run 8 4:53 4:19
Wall balls 4:54 4:41
Roxzone 3:44 4:02
Finish 1:08:17 1:03:35

Head to head: 2 races they both ran

Race Bertus Dean Gap
Cape Town 2026 Pro Men · 4 Apr 2026 1:08:17 1:08:37 0:20 · Bertus faster
Cape Town 2025 Open Men · 19 Jul 2025 1:10:34 1:03:35 6:59 · Dean faster
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