Progress against the field
From Oslo 2025 to Riga 2026, Pontus Willbo has moved with the field: what changed on the clock changed for everyone.
Over the same races everyone got 4:45 quicker, so 4:52 faster on the clock looks better than it was.
The largest gain on the field came from Oslo 2025 → Stockholm 2025: 8:27 in 83 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Riga30 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:23:47351/882Beat 60%
↑ 163 days after Stockholm 2025 8:20 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:20 behind the field: 6:11 slower on the clock, against 2:09 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:09 faster This athlete6:11 slower -
Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:17:36 PB419/1315Beat 68%
↑ 83 days after Oslo 2025 8:27 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
8:27 better than the field: 11:03 faster on the clock, against 2:36 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:36 faster This athlete11:03 faster -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:39556/935Beat 41%