Progress against the field
Allan Saffy has dropped 2:44 behind the field from Cape Town 2025 to Johannesburg 2026.
The clock says 1:11 slower, but the races themselves got 1:33 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Cape Town 2025 → Johannesburg 2025: 2:02 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
9 races · 6 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Pro · Men1:20:40 PB91/178Beat 49%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:00 PB615/825Beat 26%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Individual Pro · Men1:27:41718/767Beat 6%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:11:2436/684Beat 95%
↑ 182 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Taniya Saffy 0:38 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:12 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 6:50 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:38 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:50 faster This pair6:12 faster -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Individual Pro · Men1:31:4867/131Beat 49%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026 1:36 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:52 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:16 slower for everyone: 1:36 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:16 slower This athlete1:52 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:29:56105/191Beat 45%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025 3:10 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:51 faster on the clock, yet the race was 5:01 faster for everyone, so 3:10 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:01 faster This athlete1:51 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:17:3698/594Beat 84%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:31:4761/112Beat 46%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 2:02 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:10 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:12 slower for everyone: 2:02 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →3:12 slower This athlete1:10 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:30:3792/146Beat 37%