Kuhle vs Merina

RSA RSA · Open Women · 1 result

Kuhle Shelembe

2:03:05 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2026
394th of 546 place in that race · 546 Open Women finishers
RSA RSA · Open Women · 1 result

Merina van Vollenhoven

2:03:26 best Open Women time · Cape Town 2026
395th of 546 place in that race · 546 Open Women finishers

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

Kuhle: Cape Town 2026, Open Women · Merina: Cape Town 2026, Open Women

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

This chart shows where Kuhle and Merina sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kuhle: strongest on Ski (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 9%).Merina: strongest on Ski (faster than 84% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 10%).

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Part Kuhle: faster than Merina: faster than
Ski 96% 84%
Push 85% 79%
Pull 95% 43%
BBJ 72% 59%
Row 92% 58%
Carry 47% 54%
Lunges 23% 71%
Wall balls 66% 58%
Roxzone 35% 32%
Runs 9% 10%

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

Part by part

Part Kuhle Merina
SkiErg 96% 84%
Sled push 85% 79%
Sled pull 95% 43%
Burpee broad jump 72% 59%
Row 92% 58%
Farmers carry 47% 54%
Sandbag lunges 23% 71%
Wall balls 66% 58%
Roxzone (moving) 35% 32%
Runs (8 km) 9% 10%

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

Kuhle · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women2:03:05
4:334:386:552:297:274:2510:236:2010:495:0111:202:2811:257:2312:526:447:55
Merina · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women2:03:26
4:164:539:162:3610:286:519:367:1110:205:399:282:239:514:4610:387:148:07
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.Kuhle · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women: 1:15:44 running, 39:28 at the stations and 7:55 in the roxzone; the longest station was the sandbag lunges (7:23).Below, Merina · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women: 1:13:53 running, 41:32 at the stations and 8:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:14).

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Part Kuhle · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women Merina · Cape Town 2026 · Open Women
Run 1 4:33 4:16
SkiErg 4:38 4:53
Run 2 6:55 9:16
Sled push 2:29 2:36
Run 3 7:27 10:28
Sled pull 4:25 6:51
Run 4 10:23 9:36
Burpee broad jump 6:20 7:11
Run 5 10:49 10:20
Row 5:01 5:39
Run 6 11:20 9:28
Farmers carry 2:28 2:23
Run 7 11:25 9:51
Sandbag lunges 7:23 4:46
Run 8 12:52 10:38
Wall balls 6:44 7:14
Roxzone 7:55 8:07
Finish 2:03:05 2:03:26

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kuhle Merina Gap
Cape Town 2026 Open Women · 4 Apr 2026 2:03:05 2:03:26 0:21 · Kuhle faster
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