Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026, Paul Ward and Menzi Ndhlovu got 9:35 faster than the field.
The clock says 17:01 faster, but the races themselves got 7:26 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, still ended 8:53 ahead of the field.
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
4 races · 3 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Men1:12:20 PB88/309Beat 72%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Menzi Ndhlovu 0:42 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:22 faster on the clock, and the race was 4:40 faster for everyone, so 0:42 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →4:40 faster This pair5:22 faster -
Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:40:01 PB471/645Beat 27%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:42113/291Beat 61%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025, with Menzi Ndhlovu 8:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:39 faster on the clock, and the race was 2:46 faster for everyone, so 8:53 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →2:46 faster This pair11:39 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Men1:29:21345/477Beat 28%