Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Johannesburg 2025, Michael Galatis pulled 2:30 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 5:12 slower, so 2:42 slower on the clock looks worse than it was.
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 Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:21:23 PB124/342Beat 64%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:26:49 PB329/603Beat 45%
↑ 455 days after Johannesburg I 2025, with Cristian Henriquez 2:39 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:46 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:25 faster for everyone, so 2:39 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:25 faster This pair3:46 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:35:46215/652Beat 67%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 2:30 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:42 slower on the clock in a race that was 5:12 slower for everyone: 2:30 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →5:12 slower This athlete2:42 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:33:04 PB342/781Beat 56%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:30:35224/325Beat 31%