Progress against the field
Between Gent 2025 and Valencia 2026, Vic Vandendaele pulled 5:00 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:56 quicker, so 6:56 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Gent 2025 → Amsterdam 2026: 7:06 in 40 days.
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
15 races · 12 events
-
Hamburg28 Oct 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:31:00178/232Beat 23%
-
Hamburg28 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men59:0211/653Beat 98%
-
Valencia17 Oct 2026Individual Pro · Men1:00:0019/419Beat 96%
↑ 121 days after Stockholm 2026 1:21 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
0:22 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:59 faster for everyone: 1:21 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:59 faster This athlete0:22 slower -
Maastricht19 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Men59:19 PB15/457Beat 97%
-
Stockholm18 Jun 2026Individual Pro · Men59:3870/767Beat 91%
↑ 84 days after Mechelen 2026 0:00 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:53 slower on the clock, and the race was 2:53 slower for everyone. Whatever changed, it changed for all of them.
The fieldCompare these two →2:53 slower This athlete2:53 slower -
Rotterdam15 Apr 2026Individual Open · Men55:321/556Beat 100%
-
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:19:00 PB211/424Beat 50%
↑ 104 days after Gent 2025, with Alessia Parent 5:44 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:44 better than the field: 9:39 faster on the clock, against 3:55 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →3:55 faster This pair9:39 faster -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men56:45 PB6/457Beat 99%
↑ 64 days after Amsterdam 2026 0:45 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:34 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 2:19 faster for everyone, which leaves this 0:45 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:19 faster This athlete1:34 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Individual Pro · Men58:193/107Beat 97%
↑ 40 days after Gent 2025 7:06 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:37 faster on the clock, and the race was 1:31 faster for everyone, so 7:06 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →1:31 faster This athlete8:37 faster -
Gent12 Dec 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:28:39647/863Beat 25%
-
Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Pro · Men1:06:5647/305Beat 85%
-
Karlsruhe1 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men57:091/1208Beat 100%
-
Katowice22 Feb 2025Individual Open · Men55:27 PB2/757Beat 100%
↑ 77 days after Stockholm 2024 0:28 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
1:33 faster on the clock, yet the race was 2:01 faster for everyone, so 0:28 was lost on the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:01 faster This athlete1:33 faster -
Stockholm7 Dec 2024Individual Open · Men57:001/447Beat 100%
-
Rotterdam6 Apr 2024Individual Open · Men1:04:4411/1380Beat 99%