Progress against the field
James Coetzer and Chandre Du Plessis have gained 8:54 on the field from Johannesburg 2025 to Cape Town 2026.
The clock says 20:39 faster, but the races themselves got 11:45 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Johannesburg 2025 → Cape Town 1 2026: 9:17 on the field in 125 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
3 races · 3 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:12 PB122/645Beat 81%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Chandre Du Plessis 0:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:18 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:41 faster for everyone, so 0:23 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:41 faster This pair3:18 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:30120/400Beat 70%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Chandre Du Plessis 9:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
9:17 better than the field: 17:21 faster on the clock, against 8:04 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →8:04 faster This pair17:21 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:37:51363/594Beat 39%