Progress against the field
Between Toulouse 2025 and Athens 2026, Mathieu Lovaty kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 10:41 quicker, so 10:35 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Rome 2025 → Bordeaux 2025: 2:52 in 55 days.
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.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Athens5 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:22 PB173/616Beat 72%
↑ 114 days after Barcelona 2026 1:12 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:35 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:47 faster for everyone, so 1:12 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:47 faster This athlete0:35 faster -
Barcelona14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:15:57348/1158Beat 70%
↑ 175 days after Bordeaux 2025 0:53 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:44 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:37 faster for everyone, so 0:53 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:37 faster This athlete2:44 faster -
Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:41594/1431Beat 59%
↑ 55 days after Rome 2025 2:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:52 better than the field: 4:51 faster on the clock, against 1:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete4:51 faster -
Rome26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:23:32726/1367Beat 47%
↑ 230 days after Toulouse 2025 0:53 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:25 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:18 faster for everyone, so 0:53 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:18 faster This athlete2:25 faster -
Toulouse8 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men1:25:57989/1789Beat 45%