The race, in three figures
The race, in words
Pavlo Kovalchuk finished 711th of 1,097 men in the Open division at Berlin 2026, in 1:32:11.
Legs and stations told different stories: 63% of the field beaten on the runs, 17% on the stations. On the sandbag lunges the field had the edge, by 4:48. The race faded late: the second half went 6:12 worse against the middle of the field than the first.
Berlin cost the whole field time: about 0:42 more than the average race this season, going by 2,286 athletes who raced both.
Eight blocks
Bar = field beaten · tick = median
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Block 01 8:13Running 1 3:33v median +0:02
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Block 02 6:41Running 2 3:35v median −0:15
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Block 03 8:07Running 3 3:54v median −0:11
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Block 04 11:48Running 4 3:54v median −0:12
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Block 05 9:00Running 5 4:02v median −0:12
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Block 06 5:44Running 6 3:47v median −0:22
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Block 07 13:59Running 7 3:51v median −0:22
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Block 08 16:32Running 8 6:04v median −0:04
Roxzone, per block
Approach · Exit 12:16
Against the middle of your field
Men · n = 1093
A pace, not a person: at every mat, the middle of the 1,093 men who finished.