Progress against the field
Between Barcelona 2023 and Bilbao 2024, Kevin Mercier kept pace with the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:15 quicker, so 1:12 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 · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
15 races · 14 events
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Bordeaux30 Sep 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:04:13126/330Beat 62%
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:12455/825Beat 45%
↑ 29 days after Lyon 2026, with Manon Cailleau 2:55 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:13 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:18 slower for everyone: 2:55 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:18 slower This pair3:13 slower -
Lyon20 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed59:59 PB1/464Beat 100%
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Paris GP23 Apr 2026Relay · Men1:00:4118/188Beat 90%
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Paris GP23 Apr 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:02:4099/398Beat 75%
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Bilbao7 Feb 2026Doubles Pro · Men1:05:3687/163Beat 47%
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Verona5 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:08:56 PB125/1523Beat 92%
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Bordeaux20 Nov 2025Individual Pro · Men1:17:19 PB105/223Beat 53%
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Toulouse8 Feb 2025Doubles Pro · Men58:41 PB9/156Beat 94%
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Paris9 Nov 2024Doubles Pro · Men1:06:1744/133Beat 67%
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Bordeaux27 Apr 2024Doubles Open · Men1:01:22 PB18/353Beat 95%
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Bilbao10 Feb 2024Individual Open · Men1:12:26102/527Beat 81%
↑ 84 days after Barcelona 2023 0:03 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:12 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:15 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →1:15 faster This athlete1:12 faster -
Barcelona18 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:13:38149/594Beat 75%
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Paris11 Nov 2023Individual Open · Men1:18:09112/761Beat 85%
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World Championships NiceDate unknownDoubles Pro · Men1:09:35331/387Beat 15%