Kris vs Sam

GBR GBR · Open Men · 2 results

Kris Paton

1:33:23 best Open Men time · Birmingham 2025
2722nd of 3,945 place in that race · 3,945 Open Men finishers
GBR GBR · Open Men · 4 results

Sam Donnelly

1:20:12 best Open Men time · Manchester 2024
600th of 1,206 place in that race · 1,206 Open Men finishers

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

Kris: Birmingham 2025, Open Men · Sam: Manchester 2024, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Kris and Sam sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Kris: strongest on Carry (faster than 72% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 20%).Sam: strongest on Wall balls (faster than 81% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 19%).

See the numbers
Part Kris: faster than Sam: faster than
Ski 34% 81%
Push 26% 19%
Pull 46% 62%
BBJ 62% 36%
Row 55% 51%
Carry 72% 47%
Lunges 31% 57%
Wall balls 39% 81%
Roxzone 30% 22%
Runs 20% 53%

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

Part by part

Part Kris Sam
SkiErg 34% 81%
Sled push 26% 19%
Sled pull 46% 62%
Burpee broad jump 62% 36%
Row 55% 51%
Farmers carry 72% 47%
Sandbag lunges 31% 57%
Wall balls 39% 81%
Roxzone (moving) 30% 22%
Runs (8 km) 20% 53%

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

Kris · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men1:33:23
5:594:385:213:565:535:095:545:075:584:465:451:535:395:575:568:017:39
Sam · Manchester 2024 · Open Men1:20:12
3:214:035:022:575:264:035:155:415:134:355:032:005:094:446:014:487:00
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.Kris · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men: 46:25 running, 39:27 at the stations and 7:39 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (8:01).Below, Sam · Manchester 2024 · Open Men: 40:30 running, 32:50 at the stations and 7:00 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:41).

See the numbers
Part Kris · Birmingham 2025 · Open Men Sam · Manchester 2024 · Open Men
Run 1 5:59 3:21
SkiErg 4:38 4:03
Run 2 5:21 5:02
Sled push 3:56 2:57
Run 3 5:53 5:26
Sled pull 5:09 4:03
Run 4 5:54 5:15
Burpee broad jump 5:07 5:41
Run 5 5:58 5:13
Row 4:46 4:35
Run 6 5:45 5:03
Farmers carry 1:53 2:00
Run 7 5:39 5:09
Sandbag lunges 5:57 4:44
Run 8 5:56 6:01
Wall balls 8:01 4:48
Roxzone 7:39 7:00
Finish 1:33:23 1:20:12

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Kris Sam Gap
Birmingham 2025 Open Men · 22 Oct 2025 1:33:23 1:33:25 0:02 · Kris faster
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