Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 2026, Mar-Li Van Der Merwe and Jess Thompson lost 12:02 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 11:05 quicker, so 0:57 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 5:41 behind 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 · Women1:26:35265/798Beat 67%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Jess Thompson 6:21 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:23 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:58 faster for everyone: 6:21 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:58 faster This pair0:23 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Women1:26:12119/560Beat 79%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025, with Jess Thompson 5:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:41 behind the field: 0:34 slower on the clock, against 5:07 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:07 faster This pair0:34 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Women1:25:38 PB195/723Beat 73%