Progress against the field
Matthew Mathias has dropped 4:29 behind the field from Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 6:48 quicker, so 2:19 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
2 races · 2 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Men1:29:31 PB258/652Beat 60%
↑ 391 days after Cape Town 2025 4:29 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:19 faster on the clock, yet the race was 6:48 faster for everyone, so 4:29 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:48 faster This athlete2:19 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:31:50321/781Beat 59%