Progress against the field
Egert Virkunen has dropped 2:34 behind the field from Helsinki 2026 to Gdansk 2026.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 2:32 slower on the clock is close to the whole story.
The biggest step was Riga 2026 → Gdansk 2026: 2:57 on the field in 133 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. The summary above covers Individual Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
9 races · 8 events
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Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:16:20235/653Beat 64%
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Gdansk10 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:37 PB188/852Beat 78%
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Gdansk10 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:16:55128/286Beat 55%
↑ 133 days after Riga 2026 2:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:57 better than the field: 3:40 faster on the clock, against 0:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:43 faster This athlete3:40 faster -
Athens5 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:50119/367Beat 68%
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Riga30 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:20:35144/226Beat 36%
↑ 21 days after Helsinki 2026 5:31 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:12 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:41 slower for everyone: 5:31 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:41 slower This athlete6:12 slower -
Helsinki9 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:14:23 PB139/286Beat 51%
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Paris GP23 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:19:03136/315Beat 57%
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Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:09:51 PB85/555Beat 85%
↑ 186 days after Gdansk 2025 0:14 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:21 faster on the clock, yet the race was 7:35 faster for everyone, so 0:14 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →7:35 faster This athlete7:21 faster -
Gdansk12 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:12173/745Beat 77%