Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Johannesburg 2026, the field gained 1:01:56 on Johan Pretorius.
Over the same races everyone got 4:22 quicker, so 57:34 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 2:48 behind 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 · 4 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Relay · Men1:34:0626/32Beat 19%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Individual Open · Men2:13:03657/740Beat 11%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026 59:08 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
58:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:42 faster for everyone: 59:08 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:42 faster This athlete58:26 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:14:37 PB24/181Beat 87%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 2:48 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:52 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:40 faster for everyone, so 2:48 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete0:52 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:15:2981/781Beat 90%