Progress against the field
Chandre Du Plessis and James Coetzer have gained 8:54 on the field from Johannesburg 2025 to Cape Town 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 11:45 quicker, so 20:39 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Johannesburg 2025 → Cape Town 1 2026: 9:17 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with James Coetzer, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:12 PB122/645Beat 81%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with James Coetzer 0:23 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:18 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:41 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:23 behind 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 James Coetzer 9:17 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
17:21 faster on the clock, and the race was 8:04 faster for everyone, so 9:17 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →8:04 faster This pair17:21 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:37:51363/594Beat 39%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Women1:33:37 PB153/431Beat 65%
↑ 301 days after Cape Town 2024 1:37 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:18 faster on the clock, yet the race was 1:55 faster for everyone, so 1:37 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:55 faster This athlete0:18 faster -
Cape Town21 Sep 2024Individual Open · Women1:33:5578/147Beat 47%