Kain vs Michael

GBR GBR · Open Men · 3 results

Kain Birch

1:15:10 best Pro Men time · Las Vegas 2026
86th of 393 place in that race · 393 Pro Men finishers
USA USA · Pro Men · 14 results

Michael Azar

1:08:43 best Pro Men time · Berlin 2025
185th of 547 place in that race · 547 Pro Men finishers

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

Kain: London ExCeL 2025, Open Men · Michael: Dallas 2025, Open Men

50% SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
KainMichaeledge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Kain and Michael sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kain: strongest on Pull (faster than 96% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 52%).Michael: strongest on Ski (faster than 99% of the field), weakest on Carry (faster than 70%).

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Part Kain: faster than Michael: faster than
Ski 77% 99%
Push 52% 85%
Pull 96% 98%
BBJ 69% 94%
Row 93% 99%
Carry 95% 70%
Lunges 90% 96%
Wall balls 84% 99%
Roxzone 90% 98%
Runs 87% 97%

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

Part by part

Part Kain Michael
SkiErg 77% 99%
Sled push 52% 85%
Sled pull 96% 98%
Burpee broad jump 69% 94%
Row 93% 99%
Farmers carry 95% 70%
Sandbag lunges 90% 96%
Wall balls 84% 99%
Roxzone (moving) 90% 98%
Runs (8 km) 87% 97%

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

Kain · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men1:08:17
3:014:363:252:473:293:283:284:473:274:273:251:303:253:484:385:239:20
Michael · Dallas 2025 · Open Men1:04:04
4:163:524:092:234:093:214:103:394:234:234:151:534:093:304:124:033:24
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.Kain · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men: 28:19 running, 30:46 at the stations and 9:20 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (5:23).Below, Michael · Dallas 2025 · Open Men: 33:43 running, 27:04 at the stations and 3:24 in the roxzone; the longest station was the row (4:23).

See the numbers
Part Kain · London ExCeL 2025 · Open Men Michael · Dallas 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:01 4:16
SkiErg 4:36 3:52
Run 2 3:25 4:09
Sled push 2:47 2:23
Run 3 3:29 4:09
Sled pull 3:28 3:21
Run 4 3:28 4:10
Burpee broad jump 4:47 3:39
Run 5 3:27 4:23
Row 4:27 4:23
Run 6 3:25 4:15
Farmers carry 1:30 1:53
Run 7 3:25 4:09
Sandbag lunges 3:48 3:30
Run 8 4:38 4:12
Wall balls 5:23 4:03
Roxzone 9:20 3:24
Finish 1:08:17 1:04:04

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kain Michael Gap
Las Vegas 2026 Pro Men · 20 Feb 2026 1:15:10 1:14:51 0:19 · Michael faster
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