Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 2026, Paul Roux pulled 23:32 ahead of the field.
The clock says 33:51 faster, but the races themselves got 10:19 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, still ended 45:37 ahead of 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
3 races · 3 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Men1:37:47374/652Beat 43%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 22:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:26 slower on the clock in a race that was 6:39 faster for everyone: 22:05 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →6:39 faster This athlete15:26 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men1:22:21 PB86/536Beat 84%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 45:37 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
45:37 better than the field: 49:17 faster on the clock, against 3:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:40 faster This athlete49:17 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men2:11:38710/781Beat 9%