Progress against the field
Between Stockholm 2025 and Riga 2026, Bojan Zelcev lost 6:05 to the field.
The clock says 3:56 slower, but the races themselves got 2:09 quicker 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 Individual Open · Men, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
13 races · 11 events
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Oslo26 Sep 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:07:39 PB93/759Beat 88%
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Oslo26 Sep 2026Individual Pro · Men1:19:37 PB154/273Beat 44%
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Riga30 May 2026Individual Open · Men1:30:43513/882Beat 42%
↑ 163 days after Stockholm 2025 6:05 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
3:56 slower on the clock in a race that was 2:09 faster for everyone: 6:05 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →2:09 faster This athlete3:56 slower -
Warsaw16 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:28:50488/556Beat 12%
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Bologna4 Apr 2026Individual Pro · Men1:37:42397/435Beat 9%
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Stockholm18 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:26:47 PB727/1315Beat 45%
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Poznan13 Dec 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:41867/1184Beat 27%
↑ 72 days after Hamburg 2025 5:06 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:06 behind the field: 2:17 slower on the clock, against 2:49 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:49 faster This athlete2:17 slower -
Hamburg2 Oct 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:24959/1486Beat 36%
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Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Open · Men1:34:37668/935Beat 29%
↑ 133 days after Berlin 2025 4:48 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
5:38 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:50 slower for everyone: 4:48 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:50 slower This athlete5:38 slower -
Oslo26 Sep 2025Individual Pro · Men1:43:5391/101Beat 10%
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Berlin16 May 2025Individual Open · Men1:28:59580/748Beat 23%
↑ 63 days after Copenhagen 2025 4:33 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
4:33 better than the field: 7:16 faster on the clock, against 2:43 faster for everyone.
The fieldCompare these two →2:43 faster This athlete7:16 faster -
Copenhagen14 Mar 2025Individual Open · Men1:36:151058/1323Beat 20%
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Stockholm7 Dec 2024Individual Open · MenDNF—