Alain vs William

NED NED · Open Men · 3 results

Alain Buffing

1:34:55 best Open Men time · Rotterdam 2025
1790th of 2,469 place in that race · 2,469 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

William Arnot

1:37:31 best Open Men time · Amsterdam 2026
2241st of 2,802 place in that race · 2,802 Open Men finishers

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

Alain: Rotterdam 2025, Open Men · William: Amsterdam 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Alain and William sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Alain: strongest on Push (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 16%).William: strongest on Row (faster than 77% of the field), weakest on Wall balls (faster than 6%).

See the numbers
Part Alain: faster than William: faster than
Ski 44% 75%
Push 93% 12%
Pull 42% 63%
BBJ 16% 32%
Row 53% 77%
Carry 80% 24%
Lunges 72% 36%
Wall balls 24% 6%
Roxzone 49% 42%
Runs 16% 18%

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

Part by part

Part Alain William
SkiErg 44% 75%
Sled push 93% 12%
Sled pull 42% 63%
Burpee broad jump 16% 32%
Row 53% 77%
Farmers carry 80% 24%
Sandbag lunges 72% 36%
Wall balls 24% 6%
Roxzone (moving) 49% 42%
Runs (8 km) 16% 18%

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

Alain · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men1:34:55
6:044:285:192:085:445:215:527:446:164:438:431:485:424:286:367:146:53
William · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men1:37:31
4:164:165:303:456:004:255:366:096:394:315:262:235:225:348:1812:247:07
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.Alain · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men: 50:17 running, 37:54 at the stations and 6:53 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (7:44).Below, William · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men: 47:07 running, 43:28 at the stations and 7:07 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (12:24).

See the numbers
Part Alain · Rotterdam 2025 · Open Men William · Amsterdam 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 6:04 4:16
SkiErg 4:28 4:16
Run 2 5:19 5:30
Sled push 2:08 3:45
Run 3 5:44 6:00
Sled pull 5:21 4:25
Run 4 5:52 5:36
Burpee broad jump 7:44 6:09
Run 5 6:16 6:39
Row 4:43 4:31
Run 6 8:43 5:26
Farmers carry 1:48 2:23
Run 7 5:42 5:22
Sandbag lunges 4:28 5:34
Run 8 6:36 8:18
Wall balls 7:14 12:24
Roxzone 6:53 7:07
Finish 1:34:55 1:37:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Alain William Gap
Amsterdam 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 1:37:32 1:37:31 0:01 · William faster
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