Progress against the field
Between Johannesburg 2025 and Cape Town 1 2026, Thelana Van der Westhuizen and Erasmus Van Niekerk pulled 3:55 ahead of the field.
The clock says 11:59 faster, but the races themselves got 8:04 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.
Every race
3 races · 3 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Individual Open · Women1:46:42 PB216/633Beat 66%
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Cape Town 13 Apr 2026Doubles Open · Mixed1:20:09 PB82/302Beat 73%
↑ 125 days after Johannesburg 2025, with Erasmus Van Niekerk 3:55 better than the field Why ↓Close ↑
11:59 faster on the clock, and the race was 8:04 faster for everyone, so 3:55 of it was this pair.
The fieldCompare these two →8:04 faster This pair11:59 faster -
Johannesburg29 Nov 2025Doubles Open · Mixed1:32:08279/594Beat 53%