Lars vs Michael

GER GER · Open Men · 4 results

Lars Middendorf

1:16:27 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2024
164th of 770 place in that race · 770 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 3 results

Michael Brugger

1:21:31 best Open Men time · Stuttgart 2025
426th of 1,171 place in that race · 1,171 Open Men finishers

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

Lars: Stuttgart 2024, Open Men · Michael: Stuttgart 2025, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Lars and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Lars: strongest on Push (faster than 93% of the field), weakest on BBJ (faster than 34%).Michael: strongest on Carry (faster than 83% of the field), weakest on Ski (faster than 28%).

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Part Lars: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 75% 28%
Push 93% 33%
Pull 78% 49%
BBJ 34% 50%
Row 72% 61%
Carry 36% 83%
Lunges 92% 47%
Wall balls 82% 65%
Roxzone 72% 43%
Runs 79% 74%

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

Part by part

Part Lars Michael
SkiErg 75% 28%
Sled push 93% 33%
Sled pull 78% 49%
Burpee broad jump 34% 50%
Row 72% 61%
Farmers carry 36% 83%
Sandbag lunges 92% 47%
Wall balls 82% 65%
Roxzone (moving) 72% 43%
Runs (8 km) 79% 74%

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

Lars · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men1:16:27
4:294:194:102:064:214:164:276:334:454:384:402:114:423:415:265:246:28
Michael · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men1:21:31
4:554:394:163:044:164:464:145:314:164:414:161:444:235:204:416:3310:06
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.Lars · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men: 37:00 running, 33:08 at the stations and 6:28 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (6:33) and the shortest the sled push (2:06).Below, Michael · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men: 35:17 running, 36:18 at the stations and 10:06 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (6:33).

See the numbers
Part Lars · Stuttgart 2024 · Open Men Michael · Stuttgart 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 4:29 4:55
SkiErg 4:19 4:39
Run 2 4:10 4:16
Sled push 2:06 3:04
Run 3 4:21 4:16
Sled pull 4:16 4:46
Run 4 4:27 4:14
Burpee broad jump 6:33 5:31
Run 5 4:45 4:16
Row 4:38 4:41
Run 6 4:40 4:16
Farmers carry 2:11 1:44
Run 7 4:42 4:23
Sandbag lunges 3:41 5:20
Run 8 5:26 4:41
Wall balls 5:24 6:33
Roxzone 6:28 10:06
Finish 1:16:27 1:21:31

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Lars Michael Gap
Stuttgart 2025 Open Men · 1 Nov 2025 1:21:28 1:21:31 0:03 · Lars faster
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