Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg 2025 and Cape Town 2026, Shaun Pappas and Christopher Pappas pulled 7:04 ahead of the field.
The clock says 19:02 faster, but the races themselves got 11:58 quicker for everyone.
The biggest step was Johannesburg 2025 → Cape Town 1 2026: 4:29 on the field in 125 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
4 races · 4 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Men1:09:58 PB63/309Beat 80%
↑ 76 days after Johannesburg 2026, with Christopher Pappas 0:13 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:08 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:55 faster for everyone, so 0:13 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →3:55 faster This pair4:08 faster -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:14:06102/603Beat 83%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Christopher Pappas 2:22 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:48 faster for everyone, so 2:22 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This pair3:10 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:17:16108/291Beat 63%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Christopher Pappas 4:29 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:29 better than the field: 11:44 faster on the clock, against 7:15 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →7:15 faster This pair11:44 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Men1:29:00244/439Beat 44%