Kiril vs James

GBR GBR · Open Men · 1 result

Kiril Nikolov

2:18:00 best Open Men time · Manchester 2026
2501st of 2,544 place in that race · 2,544 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 5 results

James Gray

1:53:23 best Open Men time · Birmingham Birm
3564th of 3,831 place in that race · 3,831 Open Men finishers

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

Kiril: Manchester 2026, Open Men · James: Birmingham Birm, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kiril and James sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kiril: strongest on BBJ (faster than 7% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 1%).James: strongest on Ski (faster than 50% of the field), weakest on Lunges (faster than 4%).

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Part Kiril: faster than James: faster than
Ski 6% 50%
Push 4% 38%
Pull 4% 45%
BBJ 7% 4%
Row 1% 38%
Carry 1% 4%
Lunges 2% 4%
Wall balls 5% 24%
Roxzone 4% 7%
Runs 2% 5%

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

Part by part

Part Kiril James
SkiErg 6% 50%
Sled push 4% 38%
Sled pull 4% 45%
Burpee broad jump 7% 4%
Row 1% 38%
Farmers carry 1% 4%
Sandbag lunges 2% 4%
Wall balls 5% 24%
Roxzone (moving) 4% 7%
Runs (8 km) 2% 5%

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

Kiril · Manchester 2026 · Open Men2:18:00
5:075:006:464:008:197:029:159:069:146:148:334:098:3110:409:4013:2813:04
James · Birmingham Birm · Open Men1:53:23
6:424:335:463:335:594:446:129:557:004:576:523:257:009:468:169:029:49
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.Kiril · Manchester 2026 · Open Men: 1:05:26 running, 59:39 at the stations and 13:04 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (13:28) and the shortest the sled push (4:00).Below, James · Birmingham Birm · Open Men: 53:47 running, 49:55 at the stations and 9:49 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (9:55).

See the numbers
Part Kiril · Manchester 2026 · Open Men James · Birmingham Birm · Open Men
Run 1 5:07 6:42
SkiErg 5:00 4:33
Run 2 6:46 5:46
Sled push 4:00 3:33
Run 3 8:19 5:59
Sled pull 7:02 4:44
Run 4 9:15 6:12
Burpee broad jump 9:06 9:55
Run 5 9:14 7:00
Row 6:14 4:57
Run 6 8:33 6:52
Farmers carry 4:09 3:25
Run 7 8:31 7:00
Sandbag lunges 10:40 9:46
Run 8 9:40 8:16
Wall balls 13:28 9:02
Roxzone 13:04 9:49
Finish 2:18:00 1:53:23

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kiril James Gap
Manchester 2026 Open Men · 21 Jan 2026 2:18:00 2:17:40 0:20 · James faster
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