Progress against the field
Itayi Marufu has gained 10:35 on the field from Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 6:47 quicker, so 17:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The biggest step was Cape Town 2025 → Johannesburg 2025: 9:36 on the field in 133 days.
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
-
Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Men1:57:21 PB544/652Beat 17%
↑ 258 days after Johannesburg 2025 0:59 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
12:58 faster on the clock, and the race was 11:59 faster for everyone, so 0:59 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →11:59 faster This athlete12:58 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men2:10:19548/652Beat 16%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025 9:36 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
The race was 5:12 slower for everyone and the clock still says 4:24 faster: 9:36 gained on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →5:12 slower This athlete4:24 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Men2:14:43724/781Beat 7%