Ryan vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Ryan Williams

1:46:47 best Open Men time · Manchester 2024
1101st of 1,206 place in that race · 1,206 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

James Newcombe

1:54:32 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
3639th of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers

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

Ryan: Manchester 2024, Open Men · James: Birmingham 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ryan and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ryan: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 15% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 2%).James: strongest on Carry (faster than 44% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 2%).

See the numbers
Part Ryan: faster than James: faster than
Ski 14% 28%
Push 8% 37%
Pull 7% 17%
BBJ 7% 8%
Row 7% 14%
Carry 2% 44%
Lunges 13% 8%
Wall balls 15% 2%
Roxzone 3% 14%
Runs 14% 11%

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

Part by part

Part Ryan James
SkiErg 14% 28%
Sled push 8% 37%
Sled pull 7% 17%
Burpee broad jump 7% 8%
Row 7% 14%
Farmers carry 2% 44%
Sandbag lunges 13% 8%
Wall balls 15% 2%
Roxzone (moving) 3% 14%
Runs (8 km) 14% 11%

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

Ryan · Manchester 2024 · Open Men1:46:47
4:304:396:013:246:106:216:268:266:265:176:173:236:326:487:178:4210:16
James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:54:32
5:474:415:063:376:076:266:258:536:415:216:112:146:178:057:2016:299:02
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.Ryan · Manchester 2024 · Open Men: 49:38 running, 46:59 at the stations and 10:16 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:42).Below, James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 49:53 running, 55:45 at the stations and 9:02 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (16:29).

See the numbers
Part Ryan · Manchester 2024 · Open Men James · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:30 5:47
SkiErg 4:39 4:41
Run 2 6:01 5:06
Sled push 3:24 3:37
Run 3 6:10 6:07
Sled pull 6:21 6:26
Run 4 6:26 6:25
Burpee broad jump 8:26 8:53
Run 5 6:26 6:41
Row 5:17 5:21
Run 6 6:17 6:11
Farmers carry 3:23 2:14
Run 7 6:32 6:17
Sandbag lunges 6:48 8:05
Run 8 7:17 7:20
Wall balls 8:42 16:29
Roxzone 10:16 9:02
Finish 1:46:47 1:54:32

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ryan James Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:54:30 1:54:32 0:02 · Ryan faster
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