Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 1 2026 and Cape Town 2026, Christopher Swanepoel and Chad Swanepoel pulled 5:58 ahead of the field.
The clock says 10:41 faster, but the races themselves got 4:43 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Cape Town 1 2026 → Johannesburg 2026: 5:01 on the field in 57 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Men1:08:17 PB53/309Beat 83%
↑ 76 days after Johannesburg 2026, with Chad Swanepoel 0:57 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:52 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:55 faster for everyone, so 0:57 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:55 faster This pair4:52 faster -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:13:0987/603Beat 86%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Chad Swanepoel 5:01 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:49 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:48 faster for everyone, so 5:01 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This pair5:49 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:18:58125/291Beat 57%