Progress against the field
Steven Knops has dropped 4:43 behind the field from Gent 2025 to Maastricht 2026.
The clock says 1:34 slower, but the races themselves got 3:09 quicker for everyone.
The largest gain on the field came from Heerenveen 2026 → Maastricht 2026: 4:10 in 128 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 Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
23 races · 21 events
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Relay · Men57:236/37Beat 84%
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Maastricht19 Sep 2026Individual Open · Men1:00:553/546Beat 100%
↑ 128 days after Heerenveen 2026 4:10 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:44 faster on the clock in a race that was 1:26 slower for everyone: 4:10 better than the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:26 slower This athlete2:44 faster -
Stockholm18 Jun 2026Doubles Pro · Men58:58304/704Beat 57%
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Heerenveen14 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:03:3911/490Beat 98%
↑ 153 days after Gent 2025 8:53 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:18 slower on the clock in a race that was 4:35 faster for everyone: 8:53 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →4:35 faster This athlete4:18 slower -
Mechelen26 Mar 2026Individual Pro · Men1:04:14 PB80/457Beat 83%
↑ 355 days after Belgium 2025 1:01 worse than the field Faster on the clock, behind the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:22 faster on the clock looks better than it was: the race was 3:23 faster for everyone, which leaves this 1:01 behind the field.
The fieldCompare these two →3:23 faster This athlete2:22 faster -
Amsterdam21 Jan 2026Doubles Pro · Men57:56 PB35/298Beat 88%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Relay · Men56:454/36Beat 89%
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Gent12 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men59:21 PB6/1428Beat 100%
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Utrecht28 Nov 2025Doubles Pro · Men58:244/89Beat 96%
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Belgium5 Apr 2025Individual Pro · Men1:06:3626/203Beat 87%
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Rotterdam27 Feb 2025Doubles Open · Men58:53 PB13/316Beat 96%
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Amsterdam10 Oct 2024Doubles Pro · Men59:293/34Beat 91%
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Maastricht20 Jan 2024Doubles Open · Men1:00:1918/288Beat 94%
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Stockholm2 Dec 2023Individual Open · Men1:08:2317/302Beat 94%
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Barcelona18 Nov 2023Doubles Open · Men1:11:04158/350Beat 55%
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Rotterdam20 May 2023Doubles Open · Mixed1:10:4022/187Beat 88%
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Maastricht European Championships21 Jan 2023Individual Open · Men1:11:15102/556Beat 82%
↑ 42 days after Frankfurt 2022 9:53 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
10:10 faster on the clock, and the race was 0:17 faster for everyone, so 9:53 of it was this athlete.
The fieldCompare these two →0:17 faster This athlete10:10 faster -
Frankfurt10 Dec 2022Individual Open · Men1:21:25159/350Beat 55%
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Amsterdam22 Oct 2022Doubles Open · Men1:19:34143/197Beat 27%
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World ChampionshipsDate unknownIndividual Pro · Men1:09:23336/522Beat 36%
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World Championships NiceDate unknownDoubles Pro · Men59:59129/387Beat 67%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Men58:5419/558Beat 97%
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KölnDate unknownDoubles Open · Mixed1:05:35 PB11/213Beat 95%