Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026, the field gained 5:50 on Thomas Chemaly.
Over the same races everyone got 10:03 quicker, so 4:13 faster 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 2:32 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 2026Individual Open · Men1:13:53 PB62/652Beat 91%
↑ 76 days after Johannesburg 2026 2:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:06 better than the field: 7:47 faster on the clock, against 5:41 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →5:41 faster This athlete7:47 faster -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:21:4095/740Beat 87%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026 5:24 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:42 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:42 faster for everyone: 5:24 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:42 faster This athlete4:42 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:16:5831/181Beat 83%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 2:32 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:08 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:40 faster for everyone, so 2:32 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete1:08 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:18:06108/781Beat 86%