Progress against the field
From Johannesburg 2025 to Cape Town 2026, the field gained 1:54 on Cornel Vermaak and Robert Attwell.
The clock says 8:30 faster, but the races themselves got 10:24 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 182 days between Johannesburg 2025 and Johannesburg 2026, cost 2:29 on 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
3 races · 3 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Men1:02:16 PB12/502Beat 98%
↑ 76 days after Johannesburg 2026, with Robert Attwell 0:35 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:30 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:55 faster for everyone, so 0:35 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:55 faster This pair4:30 faster -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:06:4626/603Beat 96%
↑ 182 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Robert Attwell 2:29 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:00 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 6:29 faster for everyone, which leaves this 2:29 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:29 faster This pair4:00 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:10:4622/439Beat 95%