Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 2026, Pieter Smith kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:49 quicker, so 4:43 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Cape Town 2025 → Johannesburg 2025: 2:05 in 133 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. The summary above covers Individual Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
11 races · 7 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Pro · Men1:03:3612/178Beat 93%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 3:01 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:01 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:00 faster for everyone: 3:01 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This athlete0:01 slower -
Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:01:5011/342Beat 97%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed57:18133/825Beat 84%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed57:542/684Beat 100%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Juan-Marié Herbst 2:41 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:13 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:28 faster for everyone: 2:41 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:28 faster This pair2:13 slower -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Relay · Mixed57:521/83Beat 99%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:00:137/99Beat 93%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed55:41 PB1/400Beat 100%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:03:35 PB8/191Beat 96%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025 0:50 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:50 better than the field: 5:51 faster on the clock, against 5:01 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:01 faster This athlete5:51 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:09:269/112Beat 92%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 2:05 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:07 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:12 slower for everyone: 2:05 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →3:12 slower This athlete1:07 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:08:1910/146Beat 93%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:00:11 PB2/61Beat 97%