Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 2026, Zaid Snyders pulled 6:30 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:49 quicker, so 11:19 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Johannesburg 2025 → Cape Town 1 2026: 9:53 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
5 races · 4 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Pro · Men1:07:56 PB30/178Beat 83%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 1:07 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:07 better than the field: 4:07 faster on the clock, against 3:00 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:00 faster This athlete4:07 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Relay · Men1:08:046/14Beat 57%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:0337/191Beat 81%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025 9:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:54 faster on the clock, and the race was 5:01 faster for everyone, so 9:53 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →5:01 faster This athlete14:54 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:26:5746/112Beat 59%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 4:30 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:42 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:12 slower for everyone: 4:30 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:12 slower This athlete7:42 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:19:1553/146Beat 64%