Progress against the field
Melissa Van Der Merwe has gained 22:34 on the field from Cape Town 2025 to Cape Town 2026.
The clock says 30:48 faster, but the races themselves got 8:14 quicker for everyone.
The longest gap between two races compared here, 258 days between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, still ended 23:52 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
4 races · 4 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Women1:36:33 PB174/427Beat 59%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 1:18 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:08 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:26 faster for everyone, so 1:18 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete3:08 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:39:41131/364Beat 64%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 23:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
27:40 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, so 23:52 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This athlete27:40 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Women1:44:13 PB337/714Beat 53%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Women2:07:21358/431Beat 17%