Nico vs Ralf

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Nico Rossel

1:41:49 best Open Men time · Frankfurt 2025
1530th of 1,883 place in that race · 1,883 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 6 results

Ralf Penners

1:38:27 best Open Men time · Maastricht 2026
1552nd of 2,058 place in that race · 2,058 Open Men finishers

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

Nico: Frankfurt 2025, Open Men · Ralf: Maastricht 2026, Open Men

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

This chart shows where Nico and Ralf sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Nico: strongest on Row (faster than 29% of the field), weakest on Pull (faster than 11%).Ralf: strongest on Ski (faster than 64% of the field), weakest on Push (faster than 10%).

See the numbers
Part Nico: faster than Ralf: faster than
Ski 14% 64%
Push 15% 10%
Pull 11% 38%
BBJ 12% 22%
Row 29% 34%
Carry 16% 23%
Lunges 18% 27%
Wall balls 20% 35%
Roxzone 17% 19%
Runs 28% 23%

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

Part by part

Part Nico Ralf
SkiErg 14% 64%
Sled push 15% 10%
Sled pull 11% 38%
Burpee broad jump 12% 22%
Row 29% 34%
Farmers carry 16% 23%
Sandbag lunges 18% 27%
Wall balls 20% 35%
Roxzone (moving) 17% 19%
Runs (8 km) 28% 23%

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

Nico · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men1:41:49
4:184:515:244:325:506:375:447:395:574:595:542:425:366:237:089:199:05
Ralf · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men1:38:27
3:564:245:173:545:444:596:007:196:095:046:082:436:116:117:027:489:46
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.Nico · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men: 45:50 running, 47:02 at the stations and 9:05 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:19).Below, Ralf · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men: 46:26 running, 42:22 at the stations and 9:46 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (7:48).

See the numbers
Part Nico · Frankfurt 2025 · Open Men Ralf · Maastricht 2026 · Open Men
Run 1 4:18 3:56
SkiErg 4:51 4:24
Run 2 5:24 5:17
Sled push 4:32 3:54
Run 3 5:50 5:44
Sled pull 6:37 4:59
Run 4 5:44 6:00
Burpee broad jump 7:39 7:19
Run 5 5:57 6:09
Row 4:59 5:04
Run 6 5:54 6:08
Farmers carry 2:42 2:43
Run 7 5:36 6:11
Sandbag lunges 6:23 6:11
Run 8 7:08 7:02
Wall balls 9:19 7:48
Roxzone 9:05 9:46
Finish 1:41:49 1:38:27

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Nico Ralf Gap
Frankfurt 2025 Open Men · 12 Dec 2025 1:41:49 1:41:49 level
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