Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg 2025 and Johannesburg 2026, Wayne Kessler and Jayson Smal pulled 1:52 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 2:49 quicker, so 4:41 faster on the clock looks better 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.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:08:40 PB36/99Beat 64%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:12:22636/704Beat 10%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:12:0033/99Beat 67%
↑ 182 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Jayson Smal 1:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:52 better than the field: 4:41 faster on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This pair4:41 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men1:16:4142/96Beat 56%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:39:44 PB450/781Beat 42%
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Johannesburg I1 Mar 2025Doubles Open · Men1:29:15 PB202/325Beat 38%