Progress against the field
Between Lyon 2026 and Bordeaux 2026, Kevin Niessen pulled 0:37 ahead of the field.
The races barely moved for everyone else, so 0:58 faster on the clock is close to the whole story.
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
8 races · 8 events
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Valencia17 Oct 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:42 PB192/898Beat 79%
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Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:16:41317/988Beat 68%
↑ 133 days after Lyon 2026 0:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:21 faster for everyone, so 0:37 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:21 faster This athlete0:58 faster -
Tenerife4 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:33:33 PB199/271Beat 27%
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Lyon20 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:17:39440/1513Beat 71%
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Barcelona14 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:27:14 PB778/1013Beat 23%
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Lisboa1 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:20:44355/887Beat 60%
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EMEA London Olympia24 Mar 2026Individual Open · Men1:19:04646/958Beat 33%
↑ 45 days after Bilbao 2026 5:09 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:09 behind the field: 5:16 slower on the clock, against 0:07 slower for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:07 slower This athlete5:16 slower -
Bilbao7 Feb 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:48535/1500Beat 64%