Progress against the field
Between Heerenveen 2025 and Amsterdam 2026, Simon Van Middelaar kept pace with the field.
The clock says 3:12 faster, but the races themselves got 3:00 quicker for everyone.
203 days between Heerenveen 2025 and Utrecht 2025 is the longest gap compared here, and the second race was 3:40 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 6 events
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed59:28266/825Beat 68%
↑ 35 days after Heerenveen 2026, with Linda De Jong-De Boer 0:04 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:11 slower on the clock, and the race was 2:07 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 slower This pair2:11 slower -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed57:17 PB11/808Beat 99%
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Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Men58:15 PB6/580Beat 99%
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Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men1:12:26 PB91/243Beat 63%
↑ 54 days after Utrecht 2025 3:52 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:52 better than the field: 8:28 faster on the clock, against 4:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →4:36 faster This athlete8:28 faster -
Utrecht28 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:20:5480/215Beat 63%
↑ 203 days after Heerenveen 2025 3:40 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:16 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:36 slower for everyone: 3:40 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:36 slower This athlete5:16 slower -
Heerenveen9 May 2025Individual Pro · Men1:15:3862/216Beat 71%