Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026, the field gained 11:27 on Maritz Jooste.
Over the same races everyone got 6:47 quicker, so 4:40 slower on the clock looks better than it was.
258 days between Johannesburg 2025 and Cape Town 2026 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 14:54 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
5 races · 5 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Men1:39:35395/652Beat 39%
↑ 258 days after Johannesburg 2025 14:54 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:54 behind the field: 2:55 slower on the clock, against 11:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →11:59 faster This athlete2:55 slower -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Men1:20:09 PB196/603Beat 68%
↑ 57 days after Cape Town 1 2026, with Alef Meulenberg 0:15 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:15 better than the field: 1:03 faster on the clock, against 0:48 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:48 faster This pair1:03 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men1:21:12140/291Beat 52%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:40224/652Beat 66%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 3:27 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:45 slower on the clock, but the race was 5:12 slower for everyone, so this was 3:27 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:12 slower This athlete1:45 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:55 PB380/781Beat 51%