Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026, the field gained 3:28 on Gert Van Jaarsveld.
The clock says 6:51 faster, but the races themselves got 10:19 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, cost 8:00 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
4 races · 3 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:05 PB250/652Beat 62%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 4:32 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:11 faster on the clock, and the race was 6:39 faster for everyone, so 4:32 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →6:39 faster This athlete11:11 faster -
Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Men1:16:12 PB116/309Beat 63%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:40:16120/181Beat 34%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 8:00 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:00 behind the field: 4:20 slower on the clock, against 3:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete4:20 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:56396/781Beat 49%