Progress against the field
Between Berlin 2025 and Athens 2026, Nicolas Azzalini pulled 2:08 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:35 quicker, so 6:43 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 357 days between Rimini 2025 and Berlin 2026, still ended 2:26 ahead of the field.
How this is worked out ⓘ
A finish time moves for two reasons: the athlete, and the race — its course, its floor, its day. For each pair of races in a row in one category, we take everyone who raced both and use the middle of how much they moved (the median) as "the race". Whatever is left is the athlete. Doubles are compared only when the same two people raced both, and told as the pair's; relays are left out. A pair with fewer than 15 athletes in common is not shown. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 10 events
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Athens5 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:01:23 PB7/616Beat 99%
↑ 106 days after Berlin 2026 0:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:21 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:21 faster This athlete2:22 faster -
Berlin22 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:03:459/277Beat 97%
↑ 357 days after Rimini 2025 2:26 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:26 better than the field: 6:52 faster on the clock, against 4:26 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete6:52 faster -
Barcelona14 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:20 PB120/1013Beat 88%
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Bologna4 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men59:31 PB25/482Beat 95%
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Turin30 Jan 2026Doubles Open · Men59:4250/1060Beat 95%
↑ 64 days after Madrid 2025, with Alex Uliano 1:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:45 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:13 faster for everyone, so 1:28 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:13 faster This pair2:45 faster -
Verona5 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Men1:03:2894/1088Beat 91%
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Madrid27 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:2797/1029Beat 91%
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Rome26 Sep 2025Doubles Open · Men1:02:1519/315Beat 94%
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Rimini30 May 2025Relay · Mixed1:24:1732/39Beat 18%
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Rimini30 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:10:37120/1225Beat 90%
↑ 14 days after Berlin 2025 0:19 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:31 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:12 slower for everyone: 0:19 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:12 slower This athlete2:31 slower -
Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:06138/748Beat 82%