Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 1 2026 and Cape Town 2026, Mmabatho Lamola lost 3:08 to the field.
Over the same races everyone got 4:26 quicker, so 1:18 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. The summary above covers Individual Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Women1:51:14 PB273/427Beat 36%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 3:08 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:18 faster on the clock, yet the race was 4:26 faster for everyone, so 3:08 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete1:18 faster -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Women2:00:03 PB801/1061Beat 25%
↑ 315 days after Cape Town 2025, with Tsitsi Ngema 3:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:53 better than the field: 4:51 faster on the clock, against 0:58 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:58 faster This pair4:51 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women1:52:32113/181Beat 38%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Women2:04:54670/723Beat 7%