Progress against the field
From Heerenveen 2026 to Stockholm 2026, the field gained 0:35 on Luc Smeets and Margret Engels.
The clock says 2:42 slower, but the races themselves got 2:07 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. The summary above covers Doubles Open · Mixed, with Margret Engels, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
8 races · 8 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:12:09166/1119Beat 85%
↑ 241 days after Amsterdam 2026 1:07 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:07 behind the field: 0:27 slower on the clock, against 0:40 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →0:40 faster This athlete0:27 slower -
Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:09:13622/825Beat 25%
↑ 35 days after Heerenveen 2026, with Margret Engels 0:35 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:42 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:07 slower for everyone: 0:35 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:07 slower This pair2:42 slower -
Heerenveen14 May 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:06:3171/808Beat 91%
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Paris GP23 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:12:50115/806Beat 86%
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Cologne16 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:38 PB21/311Beat 93%
↑ 21 days after Mechelen 2026, with Margret Engels 0:02 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
No different on the clock, and the race was 0:02 faster for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →0:02 faster This pairno different -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:05:3842/394Beat 89%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025, with Margret Engels 0:34 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:21 faster on the clock, yet the race was 3:55 faster for everyone, so 0:34 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:55 faster This pair3:21 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Open · Men1:11:42 PB97/608Beat 84%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:08:59121/863Beat 86%