Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026, the field gained 35:24 on Busisiwe Mahola and Nosiphelo Mahola.
Over the same races everyone got 8:59 quicker, so 26:25 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 258 days between Johannesburg 2025 and Cape Town 2026, cost 32:52 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 · Women2:44:18794/798Beat 1%
↑ 258 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Nosiphelo Mahola 32:52 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
32:52 behind the field: 22:09 slower on the clock, against 10:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →10:43 faster This pair22:09 slower -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Women2:22:09681/714Beat 5%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Nosiphelo Mahola 2:32 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:16 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:44 slower for everyone: 2:32 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:44 slower This pair4:16 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Women2:17:53 PB696/723Beat 4%