Progress against the field
Melody Pswarayi has dropped 16:50 behind the field from Cape Town 2025 to Johannesburg 2026.
Over the same races everyone got 1:29 quicker, so 15:21 slower 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 Open · Women, the one raced most; every comparison is in the list below.
Every race
4 races · 2 events
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Johannesburg30 May 2026Doubles Open · Women1:54:22717/1061Beat 32%
↑ 315 days after Cape Town 2025, with Daphne Muzuva 3:49 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
2:51 slower on the clock in a race that was 0:58 faster for everyone: 3:49 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →0:58 faster This pair2:51 slower -
Johannesburg30 May 2026Individual Open · Women2:17:35489/633Beat 23%
↑ 315 days after Cape Town 2025 16:50 worse than the field Why ↓Close ↑
15:21 slower on the clock in a race that was 1:29 faster for everyone: 16:50 lost to the field.
The fieldCompare these two →1:29 faster This athlete15:21 slower -
Cape Town19 Jul 2025Doubles Open · Women1:51:31 PB578/723Beat 20%
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Cape Town19 Jul 2025Individual Open · Women2:02:14 PB344/431Beat 20%