Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2024 to Cape Town 2026, the field gained 9:53 on Lilitha Madikizela.
Over the same races everyone got 10:09 quicker, so 0:16 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
301 days between Cape Town 2024 and Cape Town 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 9:34 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.
Every race
4 races · 4 events
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Cape Town14 Aug 2026Individual Open · Women2:09:21357/427Beat 16%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 1 2026 11:14 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
6:48 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:26 faster for everyone: 11:14 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:26 faster This athlete6:48 slower -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Open · Women2:02:33 PB132/181Beat 27%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 10:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
14:43 faster on the clock, and the race was 3:48 faster for everyone, so 10:55 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →3:48 faster This athlete14:43 faster -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Women2:17:16388/431Beat 10%
↑ 301 days after Cape Town 2024 9:34 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
7:39 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:55 faster for everyone: 9:34 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:55 faster This athlete7:39 slower -
Cape Town21 Sep 2024Individual Open · Women2:09:37139/147Beat 5%