Ethan vs David

RSA RSA · Open Men · 3 results

Ethan Murphy

1:28:33 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
187th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers
RSA RSA · Open Men · 2 results

David Viljoen

1:28:30 best Open Men time · Johannesburg 2026
186th of 745 place in that race · 745 Open Men finishers

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

Ethan: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men · David: Johannesburg 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Ethan and David sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Ethan: strongest on Lunges (faster than 98% of the field), weakest on Roxzone (faster than 23%).David: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 94% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 51%).

See the numbers
Part Ethan: faster than David: faster than
Ski 63% 73%
Push 94% 51%
Pull 85% 92%
BBJ 66% 61%
Row 69% 84%
Carry 82% 69%
Lunges 98% 84%
Wall balls 98% 94%
Roxzone 23% 73%
Runs 65% 57%

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

Part by part

Part Ethan David
SkiErg 63% 73%
Sled push 94% 51%
Sled pull 85% 92%
Burpee broad jump 66% 61%
Row 69% 84%
Farmers carry 82% 69%
Sandbag lunges 98% 84%
Wall balls 98% 94%
Roxzone (moving) 23% 73%
Runs (8 km) 65% 57%

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

Ethan · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men1:28:33
6:484:384:242:184:494:314:476:115:075:065:521:595:033:337:124:4911:32
David · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men1:28:30
6:284:334:533:175:154:105:156:275:324:525:152:095:204:327:595:157:28
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.Ethan · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 44:02 running, 33:05 at the stations and 11:32 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:11).Below, David · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men: 45:56 running, 35:15 at the stations and 7:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:27).

See the numbers
Part Ethan · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men David · Johannesburg 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:48 6:28
SkiErg 4:38 4:33
Run 2 4:24 4:53
Sled push 2:18 3:17
Run 3 4:49 5:15
Sled pull 4:31 4:10
Run 4 4:47 5:15
Burpee broad jump 6:11 6:27
Run 5 5:07 5:32
Row 5:06 4:52
Run 6 5:52 5:15
Farmers carry 1:59 2:09
Run 7 5:03 5:20
Sandbag lunges 3:33 4:32
Run 8 7:12 7:59
Wall balls 4:49 5:15
Roxzone 11:32 7:28
Finish 1:28:33 1:28:30

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Ethan David Gap
Johannesburg 2026 Open Men · 30 May 2026 1:28:33 1:28:30 0:03 · David faster
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