Progress against the field
Between Cape Town 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, Waldo Du Plessis pulled 2:43 ahead of the field.
Over the same races everyone got 1:59 quicker, so 4:42 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 Pro · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
6 races · 5 events
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Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Pro · Men55:32 PB121/704Beat 83%
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Pro · Men56:431/99Beat 99%
↑ 182 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Neale Lucas-Bull 0:09 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
Moved with the field: 2:58 faster on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This pair2:58 faster -
Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:03:58 PB9/191Beat 95%
↑ 258 days after Cape Town 2025 2:43 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:43 better than the field: 4:42 faster on the clock, against 1:59 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →1:59 faster This athlete4:42 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men59:414/96Beat 96%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Men55:41 PB2/477Beat 100%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Pro · Men1:08:4012/146Beat 92%