Progress against the field
From Cape Town 2025 to Johannesburg 2025, Bert Verlinde and Melanie Verlinde got 1:06 faster than the field.
The clock says 2:25 slower, but the races themselves got 3:31 slower for everyone.
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 · 3 events
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:03:48 PB481/825Beat 42%
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Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:2320/594Beat 97%
↑ 133 days after Cape Town 2025, with Melanie Verlinde 1:06 better than the field Slower on the clock, ahead of the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:25 slower on the clock in a race that was 3:31 slower for everyone: 1:06 gained on the field, which the clock hides.
The fieldCompare these two →3:31 slower This pair2:25 slower -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Individual Open · Men1:16:47 PB33/652Beat 95%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:5819/547Beat 97%