The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Medhi Ligier finished the Open division at Istanbul 2026 in 1:25:04.
A station race more than a running one: 73% of the field beaten on the stations, against 42% on the runs. Nowhere gained more than the sandbag lunges: 0:50 on the median. A harder second half: 2:09 more lost to the middle of the field after halfway than before it.
This was a quick course. Against their other races this season, the people who raced Istanbul gained about 2:43.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:59Running 1 4:56No fieldv median −0:23
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Block 02 6:41Running 2 4:40No fieldv median +0:14
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Block 03 9:22Running 3 5:01No fieldv median +0:15
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Block 04 10:04Running 4 5:01No fieldv median +0:16
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Block 05 9:34Running 5 5:12No fieldv median +0:20
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Block 06 7:11Running 6 5:12No fieldv median +0:28
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Block 07 9:34Running 7 5:00No fieldv median +0:17
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Block 08 12:18Running 8 6:02No fieldv median +0:35
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 11:29
Against the middle of your field
Field · n = 737
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 737 finishers who finished.
Elsewhere
Source Unofficial
Gender cohort below the storage threshold · widened to the whole field